Atlanta native Butler, an alum of Westlake High, led off the game in electric fashion after hitting a long fly to right ...

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Nick Kurtz hit a grand slam, Lawrence Butler homered twice and the Athletics beat the Atlanta ...

Home runs in Major League Baseball have always seemed to be the centerpiece of excitement in baseball. Other plays can dazzle ...

Fuentes would start the top of the second inning, but the first three batters reached on a single-walk-single sequence to ...

Athletics Nick Kurtz (16) celebrates with teammate Austin Wynns (29) after clearing the bases with a grand slam homer off ...

Tyler Soderstrom singles to right field. Max Muncy grounds out to shallow infield, Jesse Chavez to Matt Olson. 4 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Athletics 9, Braves 0. Athletics third. Zack Gelof ...

It started with an inside-the-park home run to the first batter of the game and got progressively worse from there as the Braves found yet another low in a blowout loss to the Athletics. They have ...

Fuentes (0-3) allowed eight runs on five hits and two walks while striking out two over one-plus inning to take the loss versus the Athletics on Tuesday.

Lawrence Butler homered twice and Nick Kurtz belted his first career grand slam to lead the Athletics to a 10-1 trouncing of ...