Athletic slugger Nick Kurtz did something no rookie has ever done in Major League when he faced the Houston Astros on Friday night.

Nick Kurtz of the Athletics has become the first rookie in Major League Baseball history to hit four home runs in a game.

Nick Kurtz has officially etched his name in MLB history. The A’s rookie smashed four home runs against the Astros on Friday night to tie a single-game record. Kurtz crushed the record-tying blast in the ninth inning off position player Cooper Hummel, sending one into the left field porch at Daikin Park.

The Houston Astros have been one of the most interesting teams in all of baseball this season, and a large part of that has been due to the absurd number of inj

The Houston Astros could soon be fixing to trade one of the key components of their most recent World Series title.

Astros manager Joe Espada has so much confidence in his players and his team’s winning process that he had no trouble sitting star second baseman Jose Altuve and hotshot rookie Cam Smith for rest on Wednesday,

They could look to improve their starting rotation, but in a recent piece from Chandler Rome in The Athletic, Astros general manager Dana Brown revealed that the team is "locked in" on adding a bat to the lineup.