CHICAGO — Shea Langeliers homered twice, together with a towering solo drive that cleared the Wrigley Discipline bleachers in left, and the Athletics beat the Chicago Cubs 4-3 on Tuesday evening.
Langeliers’ third multihomer recreation of the season and No. 5 for his profession upped his season complete to twenty-eight, extending his profession finest.
Each house runs got here off Cubs starter Jordan Wicks (2-4), who allowed 4 runs and 7 hits in 5 innings.
“Obviously, (Wicks) had a really good changeup working. So just kind of hunting, trying to get the height right in the strike zone, and just being aggressive to the fastball, and hope you recognize the other stuff,” Langeliers informed NBC Sports activities California.
“I’ve kind of honed in on my approach and pitch recognition, and I feel like I’ve done a lot better job this year of that.”
Lawrence Butler additionally went deep for Oakland, which stopped a three-game dropping streak. The skid included back-to-back losses to the MLB-worst White Sox.
Of the 613 runs the A’s have scored this season, 308, or a staggering 50.2%, have been scored on house runs. That’s the very best proportion within the main leagues and in Oakland staff historical past. The earlier highest proportion for the A’s was 48.8% in 2017.
“We don’t preach to hit home runs. We preach to the ball hard, go the other way, and … we’re seeing the results,” A’s supervisor Mark Kotsay mentioned. “We’re seeing the buy-in from the guys, and it’s rewarding to know that these guys aren’t focused on hitting homers. They’re really just focused on hitting the ball hard, and seeing the success of that has been fun.”
Ian Happ hit two solo homers for the Cubs (77-74), who fell six video games behind the New York Mets for the ultimate NL wild card with 11 video games left.
Happ’s twenty fifth homer, a one-out drive to left on a 103.2 mph fastball from All-Star nearer Mason Miller, received Chicago inside one within the ninth. However Miller retired Dansby Swanson on a grounder to first earlier than hanging out Seiya Suzuki for his twenty sixth save.
Oakland native Nico Hoerner hit three singles for Chicago, and Michael Busch drove in a run.
Oakland rookie Mitch Spence (8-9) pitched 5 efficient innings for his first win since July 27. He permitted two runs and 7 hits.
“He did do a nice job limiting the damage,” Kotsay mentioned. “It wasn’t his sharpest outing tonight, but then again, in the fifth inning, he throws a 97 mph sinker, which I had a conversation (with him) in the dugout after that. Where’s that been all year?
“He did a good job. Got through five and we turned it over to the bullpen.”
Initially Printed: September 17, 2024 at 8:35 p.m.
