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Athletics Hammer Reds 11-5

The Athletics took on the visiting Cincinnati Reds tonight at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento. After defeating the Reds 3-0 last night, the A’s hoped to take game two of the series today. Luis Severino (6-11) took the mound for the A’s against Hunter Greene (6-4) for the Reds.

The Reds drew first blood off Severino when Tyler Stevenson singled with two outs in the top of the second and Will Benson crushed a homer to straight-away centerfield. That gave Cincinnati a 2-0 lead headed to the bottom of the second inning. Brent Rooker got one of those runs quickly as he led of the inning with a solo homer, his 28^th of the year.

Darell Hernaiz walked, and Carlos Cortez had quite the A-B against Greene. On the twelfth pitch of the at-bat, he ripped a homer down the right field line to give the A’s a 3-2 lead.

The A’s built on their one run advantage in the bottom of the third. Lawrence Butler singled and then stole second. Shea Langeliers walked. Then the A’s pulled off a double steal, Butler taking third and Langeliers moving to second. Butler scored on a Hunter Greene wild pitch. Brent Rooker walked. Jacob Wilson doubled off the heal of Hunter Greene. The ball ricocheted off the pitcher and lodged itself into the right field foul territory padding for a ground-rule double. Langeliers scored, and originally Rooker scored, but then was sent back to third. Greene left the game after that. The hit was on his 84^th pitch of the night so he likely was done (or close to it) even had he not been hurt.

While today’s A’s Hall of Fame inductees were in the booth regaling the broadcast team with their stories, the Reds quickly tied the game back up on a Tyler Stephenson three-run homer. Michael Kelly replaced Severino in the top of the sixth. Severino’s final line was five innings, five earned runs on six hits and two walks. He struck out two.

Brady Basso replaced Kelly in the top of the seventh. He set the Reds down 1-2-3. Shea Langeliers led off the bottom of the seventh with a hustle double to left. He advanced to third on a Kurtz ground out. Rooker walked, putting runners on first and third with just one out. Wilson doubled to center, scoring Langeliers easily, but Rooker was gunned down at home on two strong throws by Benson and De La Cruz. But the A’s took the lead, 6-5.

Elvis Alvarado took over for Basso in the eighth. He gave up a single but that was all. Hernaiz and Cortes each singled to lead off the bottom of the eighth. Gelof dropped down a perfect sacrifice bunt to move both runners into scoring position. Butler pounded the first pitch he saw into right field to score Hernaiz. Pinch runner Colby Thomas moved over to third on the play. Shea Langeliers walked to load the bases. Nick Kurtz, who had been 0-4 tonight, rocked a 493 foot* grand slam homer to centerfield to extend the lead to 11-5.

Hogan Harris replaced Elvis Alvarado in the ninth. Ke’Bryan Hayes walked and took second on defensive indifference. Noelvi Marte flied out to left fielder Colby Thomas to end the game. The A’s took the game and the series with this 11-5 victory.

*Kurtz’ homer was the longest home run of the 2025 MLB season, surpassing Mike Trout’s 484 feet earlier this year.