{"id":426389,"date":"2026-09-04T19:48:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/426389\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T19:48:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:48:52","slug":"henry-bolte-homers-twice-as-athletics-rally-past-rangers-9-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/426389\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Bolte homers twice as Athletics rally past Rangers, 9-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Bolte had his first career multihomer game, Zack Gelof, Jonah Heim, and Alika Williams also went deep, and the Athletics scored nine unanswered runs to beat the Texas Rangers 9-2 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Bolte hit the first of his homers in the third inning, a two-run, game-tying shot, before Gelof gave the A&#8217;s a 3-2 lead with a solo home run.<\/p>\n<p>Bolte struck again in the fourth, crushing his eighth homer of the season over the right-field wall for another two-run blast. Heim, in his return to Globe Life Field after playing for the Rangers from 2020-25, followed with a solo homer against his former team, extending the Athletics&#8217; lead to 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>Alika Williams capped the scoring with a two-run home run in the fifth and an RBI double in the seventh to help the A&#8217;s avoid a three-game sweep.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/gettyimages-2292658612.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Athletics v. Texas Rangers \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  ARLINGTON, TX &#8211; SEPTEMBER 02: Henry Bolte #33 of the Athletics high fives teammates in the dugout after hitting a two-run home run in the third inning during the game between the Athletics and the Texas Rangers at Globe Life Field on Wednesday, September 2, 2026 in Arlington, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>                Kelcee Skoug\/MLB Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Lopez (6-4) threw six innings, striking out seven and allowing both runs on six hits. Over his last 10 starts, he has a 2.28 ERA and 61 strikeouts over 51 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Ezequiel Dur\u00e1n and Justin Foscue both had solo home runs for the Rangers. The hit was Dur\u00e1n&#8217;s first career leadoff homer.<\/p>\n<p>Cody Bradford (0-4) allowed five runs \u2014 all on homers \u2014 in four innings of work for Texas. <\/p>\n<p>Athletics: RHP Jack Perkins (3-10, 6.42 ERA) takes the mound for the opener of a three-game series against the Seattle Mariners on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Rangers: RHP Cal Quantrill (6-5, 3.01) starts Thursday&#8217;s Game 1 of a four-game series against the Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Henry Bolte had his first career multihomer game, Zack Gelof, Jonah Heim, and Alika Williams also went deep,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,301,42750,154,429],"class_list":["post-426389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-athletics","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-sports","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426389","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=426389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}