{"id":781241,"date":"2026-05-08T05:05:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/781241\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T05:05:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:05:30","slug":"andrew-painter-gives-up-8-runs-as-phillies-get-blown-out-by-athletics-in-series-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/781241\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Painter gives up 8 runs as Phillies get blown out by Athletics in series finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>J.T. Ginn pitched eight stellar innings, Zack Gelof homered, tripled and drove in three runs, and the Athletics cruised to a 12-1 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday night to avoid a three-game sweep.<\/p>\n<p>Shea Langeliers, Brent Rooker and Jacob Wilson also went deep for the AL West leaders. Nick Kurtz extended his on-base streak to 31 games with a first-inning walk.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Schwarber homered for the Phillies, who lost for just the second time in 10 games under interim manager Don Mattingly.<\/p>\n<p>Ginn (1-1), making his sixth start after being elevated from the bullpen, allowed one run on four hits with eight strikeouts and one walk.<\/p>\n<p>Every starter in the batting order had a hit for the A&#8217;s, who finished with 13.<\/p>\n<p>Langeliers and Rooker each hit a two-run shot off rookie Andrew Painter (1-4) in a four-run first inning. Wilson made it 7-0 in the third with another two-run drive against Painter, extending his hitting streak to 11 games. Rooker&#8217;s RBI single in the fourth upped the advantage to 8-0.<\/p>\n<p>Painter, the No. 13 overall pick by Philadelphia in the 2021 amateur draft, gave up eight runs and seven hits in 3 2\/3 innings, raising his ERA to 6.89.<\/p>\n<p>Schwarber homered in the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Backup catcher Garrett Stubbs got the loudest cheers of the night from the home fans with a 1-2-3 ninth in a pitching appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Athletics: The A&#8217;s travel to Baltimore for a three-game series that begins Friday night when LHP Jacob Lopez (2-2, 6.60 ERA) faces Orioles RHP Kyle Bradish (1-4, 5.03). <\/p>\n<p>Phillies: Open a three-game home series against Colorado on Friday night. Rockies RHP Chase Dollander (3-2, 3.38 ERA) opposes Philadelphia LHP Jes\u00fas Luzardo (3-3, 5.09).<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"J.T. Ginn pitched eight stellar innings, Zack Gelof homered, tripled and drove in three runs, and the Athletics&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":781242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[95086,3955,8321,1884,1266,2083,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-781241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-andrew-painter","9":"tag-athletics","10":"tag-kyle-schwarber","11":"tag-major-league-baseball","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116537218253133007","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781241","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=781241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}