{"id":534784,"date":"2026-03-14T00:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/534784\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T00:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:18:11","slug":"athletics-homer-on-three-straight-pitches-vs-padres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/534784\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics homer on three straight pitches vs. Padres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MESA, Ariz. \u2014 Henry Bolte, Breyson Guedez and Nick Kurtz homered on consecutive pitches from San Diego\u2019s Michael King in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/oakland-athletics\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"oakland-athletics\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Athletics<\/a>\u2019 Cactus League game with the Padres on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Bolte hit a 401-foot, three-run shot to right on an 0-1 pitch from King in the fourth inning. Guedez followed by delivering a 450-foot blast to right on the first pitch he saw from King. The next pitch King threw resulted in a drive that Kurtz sent just over the left-field wall.<\/p>\n<p>The Padres eventually won the game 13-9.<\/p>\n<p>Kurtz is\u00a0trying to build\u00a0off an outstanding 2025 season in which he earned AL rookie of the year honours and batted .290 with a .383 on-base percentage, 36 homers and 86 RBIs in 117 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MESA, Ariz. \u2014 Henry Bolte, Breyson Guedez and Nick Kurtz homered on consecutive pitches from San Diego\u2019s Michael&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-534784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}