{"id":703070,"date":"2026-06-14T06:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T06:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/703070\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T06:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T06:30:12","slug":"as-win-fourth-straight-beat-rockies-7-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/703070\/","title":{"rendered":"A\u2019s Win Fourth Straight, Beat Rockies 7-5"},"content":{"rendered":"

The A\u2019s came out on top for the fourth straight night in Las Vegas, beating the Colorado Rockies 7-5. The win put the A\u2019s back at .500, secured the series win and gives the Athletics<\/a> a chance at a sweep tomorrow afternoon. And thanks to losses from a pair of division rivals in the Mariners<\/a> and Rangers, the A\u2019s rose in the AL West to sole possession of second place and just a game back of first place.<\/p>\n

The A\u2019s got to work quickly against Colorado starting pitcher Kyle Freeland<\/a>. A first inning single and walk put two on for the recently returned Jacob Wilson<\/a>, and he came through with a two-out, two-run single to give the Green & Gold a quick lead:<\/p>\n

The Rockies would soon get one of those runs back against A\u2019s starter Joey Estes<\/a>, who was making his first big league start in over a full calendar year. After a solid start with two uneventful innings Colorado catcher Brett Sullivan<\/a> came to the plate to lead off the top of the third and got ahold of a hanging breaking ball in the middle of the zone for a solo home run to put the Rockies on the board. Estes bounced back to retire the next three batters in a row but gave up another run in the fourth that tied this game up at two-all.<\/p>\n

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With Freeland still in the game the A\u2019s offense needed to get back to work. Rookie center fielder Henry Bolte began the bottom of the fourth with a leadoff single. Zack Gelof, playing right field tonight, was next up to the plate and he got ahold of his own misplaced pitch, launching a two-run home run to retake the lead for the A\u2019s:<\/p>\n

That blast was #9 on the year for Gelof and it also extended his hitting streak to 17 games, currently tops in MLB.<\/p>\n

But Estes couldn\u2019t supply the much-needed shutdown inning. The Rockies rallied for three runs in the top of the fifth, with two charged to Estes and another charged to his replacement left-hander Jose Suarez. Once again the A\u2019s would have to ask their offense to bail them out.<\/p>\n

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It took them a couple innings but they did some serious damage in the bottom of the sixth. First, with a runner on second and two outs the A\u2019s needed a base hit and Alika Williams<\/a> delivered one, tying this game back up at 5 with a bloop RBI single to center:<\/p>\n

Williams would finish the night 3-for-3 with that RBI and a run scored. That hit also chased Kyle Freeland from this contest and we were now into a below-average Rockies bullpen. Mark Kotsay decided to counter the pitching change with a swap of his own, pinch-hitting Tyler Soderstrom<\/a> for Colby Thomas<\/a>. His decision worked to perfection as Sodey came through with a go-ahead RBI double:<\/p>\n

Things continued to unravel from there for the Rockies. An intentional walk was followed by an unintentional one, loading the bases for the A\u2019s but still with two outs. Again Kotsay turned to his bench, this time going with the lefty in Carlos Cortes<\/a> in place of switch-hitter Jonah Heim<\/a>. And again it worked out, but with some help via a hit by pitch that brought home the Athletics\u2019 seventh run of the evening. The A\u2019s now had a two-run lead with nine outs to go. Could the bullpen hold for a second straight night?<\/p>\n

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Next out of the \u2018pen was Scott Barlow<\/a>. He pitched a scoreless seventh with just a meaningless walk allowed. Fellow righty Mark Leiter Jr.<\/a> followed him for the eighth and tip-toed around a runner making it to second to post a zero himself. With a two run lead it was now up to Elvis Alvarado<\/a> to close this one out against the 7-8-9 batters in Colorado\u2019s lineup. With a 1-2-3 inning he sealed the deal, finishing off the Rockies for the win and securing his second save of the year.<\/p>\n

Another solid win, if not perfectly well-rounded. Estes looked good in his first two innings but quickly fell apart. On the bright side he at least managed to provide 4 1\/3 innings, saving the bullpen from a heavy lift tonight. The offense came through with 11 hits with only one of those leaving the yard. Gelof\u2019s hit streak continues, the A\u2019s are back to .500 and we\u2019re right back on the Mariners\u2019 heels in the AL West.<\/p>\n

The series wraps up tomorrow afternoon for the series finale. Lefty Jeffrey Springs<\/a>, who was originally scheduled to start tonight\u2019s contest, will instead get the ball for the last game of the series. He\u2019ll be hoping to bounce back from a tough stretch in what\u2019ll he his 15th start of the year for the A\u2019s. He\u2019ll be opposed by Rockies right-hander Tomoyuki Sugano<\/a>, who has been a solid if unspectacular member of a subpar Colorado starting rotation this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The A\u2019s came out on top for the fourth straight night in Las Vegas, beating the Colorado Rockies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[283455,4818,253101,261403,98957,1230,250030,10008,193021,253098,105279,158640,24275,2114,232301,5463,76814,363,117658,1058,146133,99,79537,7948,99984,45868,105280],"class_list":["post-703070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-alika-williams","tag-athletics","tag-brett-sullivan","tag-carlos-cortes","tag-colby-thomas","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-elvis-alvarado","tag-jacob-wilson","tag-jake-mccarthy","tag-jeffrey-springs","tag-joey-estes","tag-jonah-heim","tag-kyle-freeland","tag-las-vegas","tag-las-vegas-ballpark","tag-mariners","tag-mark-leiter-jr","tag-mlb","tag-nbcs","tag-nevada","tag-scott-barlow","tag-sports","tag-the-athletics","tag-the-rockies","tag-tomoyuki-sugano","tag-tyler-soderstrom","tag-zack-gelof"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}