Pitchers and Bay Area natives Paul Blackburn and Lucas Erceg combined to allow one run and four hits over the first seven innings for Oakland (11-45). “We’ve come so close and it was nice today.” Oakland Athletics’ Ryan Noda #49 is congratulated after hitting a three-run home run off Atlanta Braves starting pitcher Michael Soroka in the fifth inning of their MLB game at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif., on Monday, May 29, 2023. “We’ve been just needing that one little good swing, good play, good pitch,” Noda said. The blast was part of a four-run fifth inning for the A’s, who had scored three runs or less in each of their 11 straight losses. Noda’s homer, his sixth of the season and his second in as many days, came on an 82-mph changeup from Soroka and just cleared the right field wall down the first base line. Ryan Noda connected on a three-run home run in the fifth inning off Michael Soroka, helping lead the A’s to a desperately needed 7-2 win over the Atlanta Braves on Monday before a Coliseum crowd of 8,556 as Oakland snapped a season-long 11-game losing streak. Players sitting down to eat had conversations at a normal volume instead of in hushed tones.įinally, after close to two weeks of heartbreak, the A’s won a game again. OAKLAND – Dead silence inside the Oakland A’s clubhouse was replaced by a selection of hip-hop jams.
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