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Las Vegas A’s game recap: Two Swings and Butler Finish up Rockies 6-4 Lift the Green and Gold

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Las Vegas A’s Nick Kurtz (16) rounds the bases after hitting a 471 foot home run in the bottom of the fifth inning against the Colorado Rockies at Las Vegas Ballpark on Sat Jun 13, 2026 (AP News photo)

Las Vegas A’s game recap:

By Mauricio Segura

The Las Vegas A’s needed that big swing that had carried them through a recent power surge, and for four innings in 100 degrees of Las Vegas heat, the bats mostly made noise without doing much damage. The A’s got fifth inning help with two home runs in the from Shea Langeliers and Nick Kurtz that helped the A’s to a 6-4 win over the Colorado Rockies.

Colorado rookie Sean Sullivan, making his Major League debut, gave the Rockies exactly what they needed early. He held the A’s scoreless through three innings, working around Henry Bolte being hit by a pitch and Nick Kurtz’s single in the third. The Athletics had chances, including Jonah Heim’s double in the second, but the scoreboard just displayed zero’s.

Gage Jump matched Sullivan and then some for five innings. The left-hander worked through a pair of first-inning singles by Kyle Karros and TJ Rumfield, stranded Braxton Fulford after a single and stolen base in the second, and then settled into a nasty rhythm. By the fifth, he had struck out the side, getting Sterlin Thompson, Fulford and Chad Stevens in order. For a pitcher making only his fourth Major League start, Jump showed why the A’s have trusted him so quickly. He entered with a 12.1-inning scoreless streak and stretched it into the sixth before Colorado bats finally figured out his timing.

Before that trouble, the Green and Gold got their jolt in the bottom of the fifth. Langeliers lifted a solo homer to center, and Kurtz followed with one of his own to right-center. Just like that, a quiet game turned into another reminder that this Athletics lineup can change the the scenery with two swings. Kurtz, already among the best on-base hitters in baseball this season, kept adding to a stretch that has made him one of the A’s toughest outs. Langeliers, meanwhile, continued to turn extra-base hits into his favorite form of punctuation. They don’t call him Bangaliers for nothing!

Colorado answered in the sixth and briefly stole the mood. Willi Castro and Karros opened with singles, Rumfield drew a free pass, and Jump’s outing ended with the bases full. Justin Sterner took over and got Hunter Goodman swinging, but Troy Johnston’s sacrifice fly put the Rockies on the board. Cole Carrigg then launched a three-run homer to right-center, flipping a 2-0 Athletics lead into a 4-2 Colorado advantage. If the A’s were rattled, it didn’t show. They came back like Spartans set to rescue Helen of Troy.

Jacob Wilson, back from the injured list, drew a free pass to begin the bottom of the sixth, and Zack Gelof followed with a single to keep his hitting streak moving. Max Muncy then drove a two-run double to center, scoring Wilson and Gelof to tie it 4-4. It was a needed swing from Muncy, who had recently returned from a fractured left hand, and it yanked the game back from a Rockies club that had only just grabbed control.

The Athletics took the lead for good in the seventh with a little chaos and a lot of hustle. Lawrence Butler, who entered as a pinch-hitter in the fifth and stayed in right field, doubled to begin the inning. Tyler Soderstrom drew a free pass, but Colorado nearly escaped after Jacob Wilson popped out and Carlos Cortes hit into a force. Then Butler broke for home during a caught-stealing sequence, and catcher Hunter Goodman’s error allowed him to score. It was not pretty baseball, but nitty gritty gets the job done just as well.

Butler was not done. In the eighth, after Muncy singled and Bolte added a base hit, Kurtz struck out after a confirmed challenge. Butler then singled to center, scoring Muncy and giving the A’s the breathing room they needed. For a hitter who entered the game in a rough stretch, Butler supplied a double, a single, a run and an RBI, which is a pretty useful way to remind everyone he still carries some thunder in that bat.

The bullpen handled the rest. Mason Barnett gave the Athletics a scoreless seventh, worked around Rumfield’s double in the eighth with help from Hogan Harris, and Harris finished the ninth by striking out Carrigg and Thompson before Brett Sullivan lined out to Butler in right. The Rockies had their moment. Carrigg had his blast. Sullivan had his promising debut. But the Athletics had the better finish, turning a midgame stumble into a 6-4 win.

Game 2 Saturday brings Joey Estes (0-0, 0.00 ERA, 0 K) to the mound for the Athletics against Kyle Freeland (1-6, 7.81 ERA, 45 K) for Colorado, with first pitch set for 7:05 p.m. PDT.

Costa Rican-born Mauricio Segura has been covering sports in the Bay Area since 2001 for a variety of magazines and newspapers, as well as his own publication, Golden Bay Times.

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Las Vegas A’s game wrap: Brewers, A’s put on show in Las Vegas in record-setting 15-14 12 inning thriller

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The field of the Las Vegas Ballpark in Summerlin NV hosts the Milwaukee Brewers and the Las Vegas A’s on Mon Jun 9, 2026 (AP News photo)

By Lincoln Juarez

SUMMERLIN, NV – The Milwaukee Brewers topped the Las Vegas A’s 15-14 in 12 innings in an offensive clash to open up the three game series. Tyler Soderstrom and Nick Kurtz both hit two home runs with a combined seven RBI and still came up short after multiple comebacks.

For the first time since 1996, regular season baseball was played in Las Vegas, Nevada. The classic white “Athletics” scripted jersey giveaway filled Las Vegas Ballpark for game one of six and the start of a monumental week for the Athletics and their move to the desert.

The Athletics put on a Las Vegas show for the 8,519 attendees with a military flyover at the conclusion of the National Anthem and the legendary UFC host, Bruce Buffer announcing the A’s starting lineup in true Vegas fashion. Through the green and gold smoke that filled the air, the Athletics took the field on a beautiful 87 degree desert night.

Jeffrey Springs (3-6, 4.37 ERA) coming off a no-decision in his last outing at Wrigley Field, struggled to get out of the first inning after recording two outs through his first three batters faced. The Brewers scratched a two-out run across courtesy of Jake Bauers driving in Jackson Chourio with an RBI-single to left.

Shea Langeliers answered right back for the A’s, sending a towering shot over the left-center field scoreboard to tie the game on the first pitch the A’s saw. This would be the subtle foreshadowing of the night to come. It was Langeliers’ 17th home run of the season, tying him for sixth most across MLB, and only the fifth home run given up by Brewers’ starter Kyle Harrison. Harrison has been stellar for the Brew Crew since being acquired via trade from the Boston Red Sox prior to the 2026 season with a 7-1 record and 1.57 ERA through 11 starts before Monday night.

The long-ball struggles continued for Harrison on an uncharacteristic night, only making it through 2.1 innings while allowing three home runs and eight runs to cross the plate. The A’s six-run third inning gave Jeffrey Springs a comfortable 8-4 lead, however he was only able to last two more innings.

Springs had struggles of his own, giving up three more runs in the visiting half of the third including two big-flies off the bats of Brice Turang (10) and Andrew Vaughn (2). Milwaukee clawed one more across in the fifth which wound up as Springs’ final inning of the night. He finished with a final line of 5.0 IP, 8 H, 5 ER, 2 BB, 3 K.

The home run derby continued for the swingin’ A’s in the home sixth with Nick Kurtz rounding the bases to make it 9-5 Athletics on his 13th homer of the season.

The scoring lasted all night as the two lineups dueled it out like the main event of a UFC Fight Night on the Strip. Milwaukee wouldn’t go away en route to a ninth inning comeback to tie the game at 10, officially making it the highest scoring regular season game the A’s have played in Vegas. The Brewers drove in two in the seventh on Jake Bauers’ 12th home run of the year, one in the eighth on a wild pitch, and two in the ninth on Andrew Vaughn’s ninth double of the season.

The A’s were held scoreless in the home ninth and the Brewers kept the scoring going in the 10th, taking a 14-10 lead on a Jackson Chourio sac-fly and William Contreras three-run homer to deaden the Las Vegas crowd.

With two out in the home 10th the green and gold brought three across, including Nick Kurtz’ second homer of the night, to make it a one-run game. Still down to their final out, pinch-hitter Jonah Heim fisted a ball out to right field that received a groan from the home crowd thinking the night was over. Brewers’ right fielder Blake Perkins ran out of room at the wall and the game was tied yet again.

The most dominant inning on the mound came in the top of the 11th as left-hander Jose Suarez took the rubber for the A’s and struck out the side in order giving the A’s a chance to win it the next half.

Flame-throwing Abner Uribe shut down the A’s in the home half, sending the game to the 12th inning where defensive replacement Jeff McNeil’s throw couldn’t beat Christian Yelich to the plate. Milwaukee had another extra inning lead and this time they were able to hold on. Right-hander Chad Patrick got the save for the Brewers’ fourth consecutive win in an absolute offensive thriller to open up the Las Vegas Series.

A combined 29 runs on 34 hits set the record for most combined hits and runs in a game this season. Each club used seven pitchers across 12 innings in the longest game of the pitch-clock era at four hours and 14 minutes which also set the record for most ABS challenges in a single game at 16 total. Fans got just about everything they could’ve asked for in game one of the Las Vegas series, except an A’s win. However, this will go down as one of the most absurd, memorable games of the 2026 season that gave fans in Southern Nevada plenty of reason to return to the ballpark the rest of the week.

Game two in Las Vegas is set for 7:05pm Tuesday night.

Starting pitchers for Milwaukee LHP Robert Gasser (0-2 ERA 4.73) for Las Vegas RHP JT Ginn (3-3 ERA 2.74)

That’s Amaury News and Commentary: US Government deniesTrademarks of “Vegas Athletics” and “Las Vegas Athletics”

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The U.S. government has denied the trademarks for “Vegas Athletics” and “Las Vegas Athletics”

That’s Amaury News and Commentary

By Amaury Pi-González

The USPTO, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, is the federal authority for issuing Patents and trademarks, and it is the one that issued the denial of the current A’s ownership. This just happened: The US Government denies the team’s ownership of the trademarks “Las Vegas Athletics” and “Vegas Athletics”.

During their years in Oakland, they secured 20 trademarks. However, the relocation to Las Vegas necessitated a new filing to get the same protection. The A’s front office dropped the ball by not acting quickly on this, and now they are ‘behind the 8-ball’ trying to “catch up” since their plans call to inaugurate a new facility in Las Vegas by 2028.

Eventually, they should resolve this issue, but this shows the ineptness of this outfit. Although they are in the major leagues, the A’s truly operate like a Class “A’s team, and this is no disrespect to minor league teams, many of whom approach their business much more professionally, and no disrespect to those that currently work for this A’s organization.

I know many of them, and they are very good people. For young people who want to get a leg up in the professional sports business, it is a good place to intern, gain a couple of years of experience, and then “Adiós, Hasta la Vista.” I personally know a few who traveled that path recently. Smart move, good for them!

Believe it or not, this question is still very popular not only in the Bay Area, but also outside it, because I have spoken with people there. They always seem to ask the following: “What are the odds Las Vegas is really going to happen for the A’s?

It seems there are still too many unanswered questions, and it feels like the team and fans will get screweed again. And who is guilty of people saying such things? The current ownership, as their so-called transition from city to city, feels like a very popular Disneyland attraction for kids, called Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride.

A common joke highlights the incongruity of team names kept after relocation, citing examples such as the Minnesota Lakers moving to LA and the Texas Oilers moving to Tennessee. (A’s) The franchise holds the record for having called the most different cities home, moving from Philadelphia to Kansas City to Oakland to…XXXX A’s.

Amaury Pi-Gonzalez – Cuban-born Pi-González is one of the pioneers of Spanish-language baseball play-by-play in America. Began as Oakland A’s Spanish-language voice in 1977 ending in 2024 (interrupted by stops with the Giants, Mariners and Angels). Voice of the Golden State Warriors from 1992 through 1998. 2010 inducted in the Bay Area Radio Hall of fame.

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