Miami Marlins at Oakland Athletics

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Miami Marlins

9-26, 4-11 Away

Final
4 - 20

Oakland Athletics

17-17, 9-9 Home

Brent Rooker homers twice in 3rd inning, Athletics roll Marlins 20-4

The Athletics only All-Star a year ago, Rooker drilled a two-run drive off Marlins starter Trevor Rogers (0-5), then added a three-run shot off Darren McCaughan in the 10-run inning.

“That’s Rook, we (saw) it last year,” A’s manager Mark Kotsay said. “He gets hot and he hits mistakes. He got a couple today.”

Oakland set season highs for runs and hits with 21.

Rooker, who also singled in the sixth, is the 60th player in major league history to homer twice in an inning. Trea Turner of Philadelphia was the most recent to do it, reaching the milestone Aug. 19. The last A’s player to do it was Mark McGwire against Seattle on Sept. 22, 1996.

“I grew up in Memphis a big (St. Louis) Cardinals fan so he was kind of one of the first players I remember watching during his time there,” Rooker said. “Being able to do anything the same as him is a huge accomplishment and something that’s really cool for me.”

Brett Harris also homered twice for Oakland, a day after making his major league debut. The home runs were Harris’ first hits in the majors and came with his parents and fiancee among those in attendance. JJ Bleday and Shea Langeliers added three-run home runs in the game delayed nearly 3 1/2 hours by rain.

Paul Blackburn (3-1) benefited from all the offense, though he hardly needed it. He retired the first 10 batters and allowed one run and four hits over seven innings.

“Just trying to create some early contact and get those bats back in the dugout,” Blackburn said.

The Athletics (17-17) have been one of the best stories in baseball after losing 112 games in 2023. Oakland — which didn’t win its 17th game last season until June 12 — reached .500 after beginning the year 1-7.

“You’re seeing a group that has some confidence right now,” Kotsay said. “Those are all things that I really I felt this group could accomplish. Maybe it’s come together a little bit sooner but those are good signs.”

Bryan De La Cruz and Nick Fortes homered for the Marlins. Rogers allowed seven runs and eight hits in 2 1/3 innings.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Athletics: Left fielder Esteury Ruiz was shaken up and left the game with a left wrist injury after making a diving catch to rob Bryan De La Cruz of a hit in the sixth inning.

Athletics RHP Joe Boyle (2-4, 6.08 ERA) was set to start the series finale Sunday against RHP Sixto Sánchez (0-1, 8.36).

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Matchup Prediction

Athletics: 55.3%

Marlins: 44.7%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Rivera grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	Bruján doubled to center, Lopez scored.
	9th Inning	Lopez doubled to center.
	9th Inning	Gordon grounded out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	J. Sánchez grounded out to third.
	9th Inning	Muller relieved Jiménez

Statistics

MIA		OAK
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	3
13	Ground Balls	16
4	Strikeouts	3
4	Runs Batted In	20
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
7	Hits	21
0	Stolen Bases	0
2	Walks	6
0	Catcher Interference	0
4	Runs	20
1	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
33	At Bats	45
2	Home Runs	6
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
8	Runners Left On Base	23
0	Triples	1
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
3	Doubles	1
16	Fly Balls	26
0	Caught Stealing	0
140	Pitches	185
0	Games Started	0
2	Pinch At Bats	2
0	Pinch Hits	1
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	0
16	Total Bases	42
35	Plate Appearances	54
324.0	Projected Home Runs	972.0
5	Extra Base Hits	8
4.0	Runs Created	18.7
.212	Batting Average	.467
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.500
.485	Slugging Percentage	.933
.333	Secondary Average	.600
.257	On Base Percentage	.556
.742	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	1.489
0.8	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.6
4.0	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	20.2
35.0	Batter Rating	123.5
16.5	At Bats Per Home Run	7.5
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
4.00	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.43
.273	Isolated Power	.467
0.50	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	2.00
.057	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.111
.121	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.133
8.0	Runs Produced	40.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.5	Patience Ratio	1.0
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.4
83.0	MLB Rating	157.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0