{"id":265240,"date":"2026-04-25T01:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/265240\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T01:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:51:19","slug":"the-athletics-hit-3-solo-home-runs-in-the-1st-inning-mlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/265240\/","title":{"rendered":"The Athletics hit 3 solo home runs in the 1st inning | MLB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 The Athletics got off to a fast start against the Texas Rangers on Friday night, hitting three solo home runs in the first inning.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Kurtz, Carlos Cortes and Tyler Soderstrom all hit a ball over the outfield wall \u2014 just seven pitches into the game.<\/p>\n<p>Kurtz launched Nathan Eovaldi&#8217;s first pitch over the right-field wall. Cortes sent another shot to right, and Tyler Soderstrom homered on the first pitch he saw to straight-away center.<\/p>\n<p>The last time the Athletics homered three times in the first came against the Atlanta Braves on July 8 last season, all against Didier Fuentes.<\/p>\n<p>Eovaldi had no trouble with the Athletics&#8217; batting order when he faced them on April 13 in California, shutting them out over seven innings on three hits in an 8-1 Rangers victory. He entered with a career ERA against the A&#8217;s of 2.54, his lowest against any opponent he has faced at least six times.<\/p>\n<p>In Eovaldi&#8217;s previous start, he allowed four runs, two earned, in five innings at Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                Success! An email has been sent to  with a link to confirm list signup.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                Error! There was an error processing your request.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 The Athletics got off to a fast start against the Texas Rangers on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,99241,1816,38990,154],"class_list":["post-265240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-athletics-home-runs","tag-baseball","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}