{"id":816009,"date":"2026-07-21T08:52:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/816009\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T08:52:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:52:22","slug":"jeff-mcneils-pinch-hit-single-sends-as-to-win-over-arizona-diamondbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/816009\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff McNeil\u2019s pinch-hit single sends A\u2019s to win over Arizona Diamondbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Jeff McNeil<\/a> drove in the go-ahead runs with a pinch-hit single in the seventh inning and the Athletics<\/a> beat the Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> 5-2 on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Athletics<\/a> rookie Tommy White went 4 for 5 in his third major league game and beat out a comebacker that deflected off Kevin Ginkel<\/a> (3-3) to load the bases with two outs. McNeil broke a 2-all tie with a two-run single, then wound up on third after he stole second on a wild pitch that allowed White to score for the final margin.<\/p>\n

Nolan Arenado<\/a> doubled with one out in the Arizona fifth for his 2,000th career hit. He became the 298th player to reach the milestone and the 21st third baseman.<\/p>\n

A\u2019s rookie Joshua Kuroda-Grauer<\/a> hit his first big league homer \u2014 a leadoff shot against rookie Mitch Bratt<\/a> in the second to put the Athletics<\/a> ahead \u2014 and Jacob Wilson<\/a> led off the fifth with his sixth homer for a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n

Jorge Barrosa<\/a> doubled leading off the sixth against Jeffrey Springs<\/a>, and Ketel Marte<\/a> followed with his 18th homer \u2014 a tying shot into the upper deck in left field. <\/p>\n

Geraldo Perdomo<\/a> had a bunt hit to chase Springs, who allowed two runs and six hits in five innings. The left-hander has given up 27 homers \u2014 most in the majors and one off his career high set last season. He is 0-9 in 16 starts since going 3-0 in his first four.<\/p>\n

Luis Medina<\/a> (2-1) pitched two scoreless innings for the win. Hogan Harris<\/a> struck out the side and left two runners on in the ninth for his seventh save.<\/p>\n

Bratt permitted two runs and eight hits over 4 2\/3 innings in his third big league start. Ginkel got three outs and was charged with three runs.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

RHP Blake Perkins<\/a> (2-5, 6.87 ERA) pitches Tuesday for the Athletics<\/a>. Arizona had not announced a scheduled starter.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Jeff McNeil drove in the go-ahead runs with a pinch-hit single in the seventh inning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-816009","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\/816009","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=816009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}