{"id":639774,"date":"2026-05-01T01:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/639774\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T01:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:14:25","slug":"nick-kurtz-draws-walk-for-19th-game-in-row-as-beat-kansas-city-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/639774\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Kurtz draws walk for 19th game in row, A\u2019s beat Kansas City Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif (AP) \u2014 Nick Kurtz<\/a> drew a walk for his 19th consecutive game and hit a two-run double, helping the Athletics<\/a> defeat the Kansas City Royals<\/a> 6-3 on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Shea Langeliers<\/a> added three doubles, while Darell Hernaiz<\/a> had three hits and two RBIs. Jacob Wilson<\/a> had two hits and scored twice to help the A\u2019s to their sixth win in nine games.<\/p>\n

Elias Diaz<\/a> hit his first home run of the season for the Royals, and Maikel Garcia<\/a> and Starling Marte<\/a> had three hits apiece. Vinnie Pasquantino<\/a> missed his second straight start because of lower back tightness but pinch hit in the ninth and hit a game-ending flyout with a man on against Jack Perkins<\/a>, who got his third save.<\/p>\n

Kurtz built a 4-2 lead when he lined a 1-0 slider from Noah Cameron<\/a> (2-2) to right-center in a four-run second that put the A\u2019s ahead 5-2. Langeliers had an RBI double earlier in the inning, and Kurtz scored on shortstop Nick Loftin<\/a>\u2019s throwing error.<\/p>\n

Kurtz was walked by John Schreiber<\/a> in the seventh. He tied Ted Williams for the third-longest streak behind Detroit\u2019s Roy Cullenbine in 1947 and San Francisco\u2019s Barry Bonds in 2002-03. Records date to 1910 in the National League and 1913 in the American.<\/p>\n

Luis Medina<\/a> (1-1) allowed three hits in 2 2\/3 scoreless innings in relief of starter Jeffrey Springs<\/a>, who gave up two runs and five hits before leaving with right hip soreness after three innings and 67 pitches.<\/p>\n

Cameron gave up five runs \u2014 four earned \u2014 and nine hits in 5 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Royals: LHP Cole Ragans<\/a> (1-4, 5.00 ERA) starts Friday at Seattle, which sends RHP Bryan Woo<\/a>d (1-2, 3.86) to the mound.<\/p>\n

Athletics<\/a>: RHP J.T. Ginn<\/a> (0-0, 3.24) starts Friday against visiting Cleveland and LHP Joey Cantillo<\/a> (1-1, 2.97).<\/p>\n

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AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n

Michael Wagaman, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif (AP) \u2014 Nick Kurtz drew a walk for his 19th consecutive game and hit a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-639774","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\/639774","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=639774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}