Nick Kurtz roped a tiebreaking two-run triple in the fifth inning and the Athletics held on to beat the host Baltimore Orioles 4-3 Friday night in the opener of a three-game series.

Six Athletics pitchers combined for a four-hitter while Jacob Wilson joined Kurtz with two hits. The Athletics have won two games in a row.

Athletics starter Jacob Lopez worked 5 1/3 innings, with two of the three hits allowed going for home runs. He walked two and struck out five, reaching the five-inning level in his fifth consecutive start.

Justin Sterner, Scott Barlow, Joel Kuhnel, Jack Perkins and Hogan Harris worked in relief. Perkins entered in the ninth and gave up a leadoff walk to Adley Rutschman and a run on Samuel Basallo’s two-out single before Harris, who put the potential winning run on base with a walk, notched the final out for his second save.

Pete Alonso and Rutschman homered for the Orioles, who lost for the seventh time in their last nine. Baltimore didn’t threaten often, stranding five runners on base.

Orioles starter Kyle Bradish (1-5) struck out 10 batters in seven innings, but took the loss as he gave up three runs on five hits with one walk.

Alonso’s eighth homer of the season — and fifth in 11 games — opened the scoring with one out in the fourth inning.

Zack Gelof’s run-scoring single started the scoring in the Athletics’ three-run fifth inning, with Kurtz ripping a two-run triple.

Aside from Alonso’s long ball, the only other Baltimore hit through five innings was Rutschman’s single in the first. When Rutschman smashed a solo homer with one out in the sixth, he ended Lopez’s outing.

Wilson’s two-out single in the eighth drove in a run to extend the Athletics’ lead to 4-2 off reliever Trey Gibson, who was appearing in the second game of his big-league career. That run resulted from three singles.

–Field Level Media

Angel Reese will make her official Atlanta debut when the Dream visit the Minnesota Lynx on Saturday night in Minneapolis.

The Chicago Sky traded Reese just more than a month ago and she played in two preseason games, but the two-time All-Star and rebounding specialist makes it official in Saturday’s season opener.

“How could you not be happy here?” Reese told ESPN about Atlanta. “It just feels great. I always wanted to come to Atlanta. When you think of championship culture, playing next to these players, the coach (Karl Smesko), it just made sense.”

Reese averaged 14.7 points and 12.6 rebounds per game in her second WNBA season, but things ended poorly in Chicago after the Sky suspended her a half-game for “statements detrimental to the team” for which she’d apologized. She held herself out the last few games of the season from there, citing back issues.

WNBA front offices thought highly of the move. In a preseason survey of the league’s 15 general managers, the Dream came out as the No. 3 favorite behind the Las Vegas Aces and New York Liberty to win the championship, which would be the franchise’s first. The Dream already have All-Stars Allisha Gray and Rhyne Howard in the backcourt.

Their first opponent of the season has been a playoff contender the past two seasons, but the Lynx open 2026 without their centerpiece, Napheesa Collier. The team is hoping she’ll return in June following offseason ankle surgery.

No. 2 overall draft pick Olivia Miles will be in the spotlight until then. Her highly productive college career at Notre Dame and TCU saw her average 15.6 points, 6.5 assists, 6.3 rebounds and 1.7 steals across 139 games.

Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve said on draft night that Miles is “the first real point guard we’ve had since Lindsay Whalen,” the franchise icon who retired after the 2018 campaign.

That’s a lofty comparison. The good news for Miles? She can learn from Whalen herself, as she joined the coaching staff before the 2025 campaign.

“She played on the dynasty team with Maya Moore, Seimone (Augustus) and all those greats,” Miles told reporters. “I can’t wait to just be a sponge and just ask questions and be open-minded and be coachable.”

–Field Level Media

Jacob Misiorowski struck out 11 over six scoreless innings, pacing the Milwaukee Brewers to a 6-0 victory over the visiting New York Yankees on Friday in the opener of a three-game series.

The hard-throwing Misiorowski (3-2) allowed just two singles and walked two in a dominant 95-pitch outing. Each of his 10 pitches in the first inning topped 102 mph. In his previous start, the 24-year-old right-hander pitched 5 1/3 hitless innings before exiting with a hamstring cramp.

Milwaukee rookie Shane Drohan allowed one hit over the final three scoreless innings for his first major league save.

Brandon Lockridge had two hits and two RBIs for the Brewers, who had lost two of the past three, before he was taken off the field on a cart in the fourth inning with an apparent leg injury. The left fielder was hurt sliding into the wall in foul territory. The team did not announce a status update before the end of the game.

Jose Caballero produced two of the three hits for the Yankees, who had won six of their previous seven games

The Brewers scored four runs in the second inning, when their first five hitters reached against Max Fried (4-2).

Gary Sanchez singled, and Andrew Vaughn and Luis Rengifo followed with back-to-back walks to load the bases. Lockridge lined an RBI single to right, and Sal Frelick blooped an RBI single into shallow center to make it 2-0.

Joey Ortiz drove in another run on a fielder’s choice, and Jackson Chourio delivered an RBI single up the middle to put the Brewers up 4-0. Fried recovered to strike out the final two hitters of the frame.

Milwaukee made it 5-0 in the third on a double by Vaughn and Lockridge’s two-out single.

The Brewers added a run in the seventh off Kervin Castro on a double by Joey Ortiz and RBI single by William Contreras.

The Yankees threatened in the fifth when Spencer Jones, making his major league debut, drew a one-out walk and Jose Caballero singled, but Misiorowski struck out Austin Wells and Ryan McMahon to end the inning.

Jones finished 0-for-2.

Fried battled through six innings, allowing five runs on six hits, striking out five and walking three.

–Field Level Media