WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Shea Langeliers hit his 20th home run and the Athletics defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-1 on Wednesday night to snap their longest four-game losing streak this season.
Jonah Heim and Alika Williams also hit the A’s. JT Ginn (7-4) allowed one run and three hits over six innings to win for the fourth time in his last five starts. Ginn walked five and struck out four.
Freddie Freeman pitched for the major league-leading Dodgers (56-31), extending his on-base run to 16 games.
Los Angeles finished the road 7-2 one night after manager Dave Roberts became the fastest manager to 1,000 career wins.
After lopsided losses in the first two games of the series, the A’s quickly took a lead from Heim’s homer in the second.
Freeman tied the game with his 14th home run in the third before the A’s scored twice in the fourth and added three more in the fifth.
Heim walked and scored on Lawrence Butler’s plate in the fourth. Henry Bolt followed with an RBI single.
Langeliers started the rally in the fifth with a home run off Charlie Barnes (0-1). Nick Kurtz followed with a single and scored on a double by Colby Thomas. Heim added an RBI single to make it 6-1.
Williams got the eighth goal from Barnes, who threw 94 pitches in relief. He gave up seven runs and 12 hits in seven innings after rookie Jack Dreyer struck out all three batters in the first.
Further
Dodgers: RHP Rocky Sasaki (3-5, 4.88 ERA) pitches against the San Diego Padres in Los Angeles on Thursday night.
Athletics: RHP Jack Perkins (2-3, 6.00) will face the Miami Marlins on Friday.
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