NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Nick Kurtz hit his first home run this season, sending the Athletics to a 1-0 victory Sunday and a three-game sweep of the slumping New York Mets.<\/p>\n
Aaron Civale (2-0) allowed four hits in 5 2\/3 innings as the Athletics won their fifth straight. They swept the Mets for the first time, immediately after winning a series against the Yankees in New York for the first time since 2016.<\/p>\n
The Mets also were shut out in Friday night’s series opener. With slugger Juan Soto on the injured list, they’ve scored nine runs during a five-game skid \u2014 all at home.<\/p>\n
Kurtz, who had 36 homers last season and was the AL Rookie of the Year, launched a 363-foot shot to right field off Freddy Peralta (1-1) in the third inning.<\/p>\n
That ended a drought of 48 at-bats, the longest for Kurtz since he went 58 at-bats without a longball immediately following his four-homer game against Houston last July 25.<\/p>\n
Jeff McNeil doubled in the fourth and finished the series 6 for 13 against his former team in his first trip to Citi Field since the Mets traded him to the Athletics in December.<\/p>\n
Elvis Alvarado got Francisco Lindor to ground out with a runner on first to end the eighth. Joel Kuhnel earned his second save with a perfect ninth on four pitches, prompting a chorus of boos from the Citi Field crowd.<\/p>\n
Peralta took the loss despite going six innings for the first time this season. He permitted four hits and three walks with six strikeouts.<\/p>\n
The Athletics return home Monday, when RHP Luis Severino (0-1, 4.50 ERA) opposes Texas RHP Nathan Eovaldi (1-2, 7.98) in the opener of a four-game series.<\/p>\n
The Mets begin a six-game trip Monday, when LHP David Peterson (0-2, 6.14 ERA) faces LHP Justin Wrobleski (1-0, 4.00) and the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Nick Kurtz hit his first home run this season, sending the Athletics to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97372,110881,115917,51383,70127,99756,115918,26465,24245,78026,115916,4694,32869,143,145,144,2390,5341,5337,5339,5340,103558,108125],"class_list":{"0":"post-264490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-aaron-civale","9":"tag-david-peterson","10":"tag-elvis-alvarado","11":"tag-francisco-lindor","12":"tag-freddy-peralta","13":"tag-jeff-mcneil","14":"tag-joel-kuhnel","15":"tag-juan-soto","16":"tag-justin-wrobleski","17":"tag-luis-severino","18":"tag-mets-athletics-score-kurtz","19":"tag-new-york","20":"tag-nick-kurtz","21":"tag-oakland","22":"tag-oakland-headlines","23":"tag-oakland-news","24":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","25":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","26":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","27":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","28":"tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","29":"tag-product-40802-ap-new-york-city-sports-only","30":"tag-product-40803-ap-new-york-state-sports-only"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}