Athletics’ Nick Kurtz hits a house run towards the Houston Astros through the eighth inning of a baseball sport Friday, July 25, 2025, in Houston. (AP Picture/David J. Phillip)
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HOUSTON — Nick Kurtz of the Athletics turned the primary rookie in Main League Baseball historical past to hit 4 house runs in a sport and matched the MLB report with 19 complete bases towards the Houston Astros on Friday evening.
Kurtz went deep within the second, sixth, eighth and ninth innings. He additionally doubled and singled on his 6-for-6 evening to equal Shawn Inexperienced, who had 4 homers, six hits and 19 complete bases for the Los Angeles Dodgers on Could 23, 2002, at Milwaukee.
“It’s hard to think about this day being kind of real, it still feels like a dream,” Kurtz mentioned in a postgame tv interview. “So it’s pretty remarkable. I’m kind of speechless. Don’t really know what to say.”
It was the twentieth four-homer sport in main league historical past and second this season. Arizona’s Eugenio Suárez did it on April 26 towards Atlanta. Kurtz and Inexperienced are the one gamers with six hits in a four-homer sport.
Kurtz completed with eight RBI and 6 runs scored because the Athletics beat the Astros 15-3.
The 6-foot-5, 22-year-old slugger has 23 homers in 66 video games this season. The fourth general decide in final yr’s novice draft out of Wake Forest, he made his main league debut on April 23 and hit his first homer on Could 13.
He’s the youngest participant with a four-homer sport. Pat Seerey of the Chicago White Sox was 25 when he homered 4 instances on July 18, 1948.
On Friday, Kurtz homered off every of the Astros’ 4 pitchers: Ryan Gusto, Nick Hernandez, Kaleb Ort and outfielder Cooper Hummel, who labored the ninth with the sport out of hand. His longest drive was his third, a 414-foot solo shot off Ort within the eighth.
For his fourth homer, he hit an opposite-field line drive to the Crawford packing containers in left subject on a 77 mph, 2-0 pitch from Hummel. The three-run shot made it 15-2.
Kurtz has been the perfect hitter within the majors in July, rating first in batting common (.425), on-base proportion (.494), slugging proportion (1.082), runs (22), doubles (13), homers (11) and RBI (27).
Kurtz is batting .553 (26 for 47) with 9 homers and 20 RBI throughout his 12-game hitting streak.
