Nick Kurtz had three hits and drove in five runs for the Athletics in a 14-6 win against the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday night in Anaheim, Calif.
Zack Gelof also had three hits, including a home run, and three RBIs as the visitors leveled the four-game series at one victory apiece. Brent Rooker homered and knocked in three runs for the A’s, who ended a three-game skid.
A’s left-hander Jacob Lopez was staked to a 6-0 lead but couldn’t get last long enough for the win. He was finished after 3 2/3 innings, having allowed four runs and seven hits while striking out two and walking three.
Justin Sterner (2-3) retired the only batter he faced to close the fourth.
Angels starter Reid Detmers (1-5) allowed a career-high eight runs and eight hits in 5 2/3 innings. The left-hander struck out eight and walked two.
Mike Trout homered for the Angels, who had scored two runs or fewer in each of the previous seven games, losing six of those. Trout, Vaughn Grissom and Josh Lowe drove in two runs apiece.
Detmers struck out five of the first six A’s batters but gave up six runs with two outs in the third.
Kurtz had an RBI single up the middle for a 1-0 lead. Colby Thomas then dropped a two-run double into right-center field. Rooker followed with an RBI single, and Gelof finished off the scoring with a two-run bloop single to center to make it 6-0.
Trout led off the third with a home run to center to cut it to 6-1. He then walked with the bases loaded and two outs in the fourth to force in a run. Grissom followed with a two-strike single to left to score two runs and slice the deficit to 6-4, ending the night for Lopez.
The A’s struck again with two outs in the sixth.
Jose Fermin replaced Detmers with runners on first and second and walked the first batter he faced, bringing up Kurtz, who singled up the middle to score two runs and make it 8-4.
Gelof blasted a solo homer into the right field seats in the seventh to make it 9-4. Kurtz smashed a two-run double in the eighth, and Rooker followed with a two-run blast to left-center for a 13-4 lead.
Lowe answered with a two-run double in the bottom of the eighth.
Gelof singled in the ninth and scored on a base hit by Darell Hernaiz.
