Three Sacramento A’s leap for joy Tyler Soderstrom (left), Lawrence Butler (4), and Henry Bolte (right) after defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento on Mon Jun 15, 2026 (AP News photo)

Sacramento A’s podcast Tony Renteria:

#1 Tony, the Sacramento A’s opened up on the Pittsburgh Pirates with an 11-2 win at Sutter Health Park on Monday night after getting beat by the Colorado Rockies Sunday 23-9. It was quite the turnaround for the A’s to open the series.

#2 The A’s Nick Kurtz also hit his 17th home run of the season a 407 foot two run shot that gave the A’s a two run 3-1 lead in the bottom of the second inning.

#3 Jeff McNiel slugged a 359 foot home run scoring Lawrence Butler ahead of him for a two run home run that gave the A’s a 5-1 lead.

#4 Kurtz hit another home run in the bottom of the seventh inning a three run home run a 380 foot shot that put the A’s way ahead 11-1 with the final score ending up 11-2 A’s.

#5 Starting pitchers for Tuesday in game two of the series: Starter pitchers for Pittsburgh RHP Mitch Keller (5-4 ERA 5.14) for Sacramento RHP Jack Perkins (2-3 ERA 6.25) first pitch slated for 6:40pm PDT.

Tony Renteria does the Sacramento A’s podcasts each Tuesday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

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🔥Game-day bites? Oh yeah.
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