BALTIMORE -- Nick Kurtz connected for a two-run triple among his two hits and extended MLB’s longest on-base streak this season to 32 games to help the Athletics to a 4-3 victory over the Orioles in Friday night’s series opener at Camden Yards. The reigning American League Rookie of the Year tied Mark Ellis (2007) for the second-longest single-season on-base streak for the club since 2000.
Zack Gelof added an RBI single during the A’s three-run fifth inning off O’s starter Kyle Bradish, who struck out 10 and only allowed seven Athletics aboard across seven frames.
Jacob Wilson produced an insurance run with an eighth-inning single off Trey Gibson as the A’s nabbed their second straight victory after beginning this six-game East Coast trip with back-to-back losses.
Jacob Lopez (3-2) allowed two runs in 5 1/3 innings on solo shots from Pete Alonso and Adley Rutschman, the latter drive coming off his 91st and final pitch.
Justin Sterner completed the sixth, and Scott Barlow and Joel Kuhnel each worked frames. Jack Perkins retired two in the ninth before Samuel Basallo’s single narrowed it to 4-3, and Hogan Harris struck out Jeremiah Jackson with two aboard for his second save.