{"id":266390,"date":"2026-04-25T23:28:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/266390\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T23:28:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:28:31","slug":"athletics-hit-3-solo-homer-on-7-pitches-off-rangers-eovaldi-in-1st-inning-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/266390\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics hit 3 solo homer on 7 pitches off Rangers&#8217; Eovaldi in 1st inning :: WRAL.com"},"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 \u2014 three of the first four hitters \u2014 homered 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 inning was against the Atlanta Braves on July 8, 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 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>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/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":266391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[25380,150,152,151,557],"class_list":{"0":"post-266390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-ap-sports","9":"tag-arlington","10":"tag-arlington-headlines","11":"tag-arlington-news","12":"tag-associated-press"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266390","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=266390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}