{"id":772244,"date":"2026-05-04T09:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T09:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/772244\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T09:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T09:02:14","slug":"athletics-beat-guardians-7-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/772244\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics beat Guardians 7-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND \u2014 Colby Thomas, Zack Gelof and Tyler Soderstrom homered to back a strong start by Aaron Civale and the Athletics beat the Cleveland Guardian 7-1 on Sunday to avoid a series sweep.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Civale (3-1) yielded a run on seven hits and two walks in six innings<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Messick allowed four runs on six hits in five innings<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Guardians RHP Tanner Bibee (0-4, 4.08) squares off against Royals RHP Michael Wacha (2-2, 3.13) on Monday as the road trip continues<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Athletics\/status\/2051037833255850217?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Thomas hit his first home run<\/a>\u00a0of the season, leading off the second against rookie Parker Messick (3-1) for a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/milb_central\/status\/2051054571829490030?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rookie Chase DeLauter hit<\/a>\u00a0his sixth home run \u2014 and first since April 3 \u2014 going the opposite way to left field to tie it 1-all in the fifth and extend his hitting streak to eight games. DeLauter went 8 for 11 in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Messick retired nine in a row following Thomas&#8217; shot until\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TalkinBaseball_\/status\/2051049646965805150?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gelof and Soderstrom hit<\/a>\u00a0back-to-back homers leading off the Athletics fifth. It was the second homer for Gelof and the fourth for Soderstrom, who went 3 for 4. Singles by Darell Hernaiz, Jeff McNeil and Brent Rooker produced another run for a 4-1 lead before Messick struck out Nick Kurtz to end the inning.<\/p>\n<p>McNeil had his third straight multiple-hit game when he drove in three with a two-out double off Peyton Pallette, who needed 36 pitches to retire the side in the seventh.<\/p>\n<p>Civale (3-1) yielded a run on seven hits and two walks in six innings. He retired Daniel Schneemann to end the first and third innings with runners at the corners.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Sterner, Mark Leiter Jr. and Joel Kuhnel all pitched a scoreless inning for the A&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Messick allowed four runs on six hits in five innings. The left-hander had allowed one homer and 22 hits through his first 36 innings this season.<\/p>\n<p>Kurtz went 1 for 4 to extend the longest current on-base streak at 28.<\/p>\n<p>Up next\n<\/p>\n<p>Guardians RHP Tanner Bibee (0-4, 4.08) squares off against Royals RHP Michael Wacha (2-2, 3.13) on Monday as the road trip continues.<\/p>\n<p>Athletics RHP Luis Severino (2-2, 4.46) starts Tuesday when the A&#8217;s travel to play the Phillies, who haven&#8217;t announced a starter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014 Colby Thomas, Zack Gelof and Tyler Soderstrom homered to back a strong start by Aaron Civale&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":772245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[30319,7448,1578,13593,1266,50,1573,117580,13570,62,52,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-772244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-cleveland","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-ohio","15":"tag-ohio-cleveland-guardians","16":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116515500593139481","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}