WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Shea Langeliers hit his 20th home run of the season and Jonah Heim and Alika Williams also went deep as the Athletics beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-1 on Wednesday night, ending a four-game losing streak.
J.T. Ginn (7-4) allowed one run on three hits over six innings, striking out four and walking five, to earn his fourth win in his last five starts.
Freddie Freeman homered for the Dodgers (56-31), extending his on-base streak to 16 games. Los Angeles had won seven of nine on its road trip before the loss.
The A’s jumped ahead in the second inning on Heim’s leadoff homer. Freeman tied it with his 14th home run in the third, but Oakland responded with two runs in the fourth and three more in the fifth.
In the fourth, Heim walked and scored on Lawrence Butler’s groundout, and Henry Bolte added an RBI single. Langeliers started the fifth-inning rally with a solo shot off reliever Charlie Barnes (0-1). Nick Kurtz singled and scored on Colby Thomas’s double, and Heim drove in another run with a single to make it 6-1. Williams homered in the eighth off Barnes, who allowed seven runs and 12 hits over seven innings after opener Jack Dreyer struck out the side in the first.
The A’s are scheduled to relocate to Las Vegas in 2028, playing in a new ballpark on the Strip.
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