{"id":642641,"date":"2026-05-02T08:18:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T08:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/642641\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T08:18:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T08:18:28","slug":"athletics-nick-kurtz-walking-way-to-mlb-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/642641\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics’ Nick Kurtz walking way to MLB record"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nick Kurtz walked up to a milestone possessed by Barry Bonds.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Athletics<\/a>‘ slugger earned a seventh-inning walk against the Cleveland Guardians<\/a> on Friday night, marking the 20th consecutive game he was credited with at least one walk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kurtz, who recorded a franchise mark<\/a>, matched Bonds’ effort for the second-longest streak in MLB history. Former Detroit Tigers outfielder and first baseman Roy Cullenbine<\/a> walked in 22 straight games in 1947, establishing the league’s all-time longest streak.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kurtz, the 2025 AL Rookie of the Year, clubbed 36 homers in 117 games last season. He displayed power as a freshman and patience as a sophomore.<\/p>\n

Athletics’ Nick Kurtz chasing MLB walks record<\/p>\n

Kurtz entered Friday’s 8-5 loss to the Cleveland Guardians<\/a> at Sutter Health Park, batting .245 with five home runs and 15 RBI. His production may be down, but his on-base percentage of .424 is 41 points higher than last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old first baseman remains one of the mobile organization’s top young players.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kurtz joined the MLB all-time home run king’s mark of 20 straight games with a walk by working a six-pitch at-bat against reliever Hunter Gaddis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kurtz fouled off the opening-effort slider, then took three consecutive pitches out of the strike zone.\u00a0He allowed a called strike on a high 87-mile slider before taking a 94-mph four-seam fastball. It was ruled outside.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Next batter Brent Rooker connected on an RBI single, pulling the Athletics to within 8-5, but relief pitcher Erik Sabrowski retired the next three batters, two on strikeouts.<\/p>\n

Kurtz finished 0-for-4 with one walk Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Kurtz walked up to a milestone possessed by Barry Bonds. The\u00a0Athletics‘ slugger earned a seventh-inning walk against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-642641","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\/642641","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=642641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}