The Athletics split up Sunday and came away with two wins, including one over the defending World Series champions and another in Las Vegas to close Big League Weekend on a high note.
Oakland beat the Dodgers 11-7 at Hohokam Stadium, then followed with a 7-4 win over the Angels at Las Vegas Ballpark. The first game turned on Leo De Vries’ breakout power. The second flipped late, when the A’s scored five runs across the seventh and eighth innings to seal it in front of another strong crowd in Summerlin.
De Vries breaks out in Mesa
The loudest swing of the day came from De Vries, and then he did it again.
The Dodgers led 7-0 before the A’s finally punched back in the fourth. Brett Harris singled, then De Vries launched his first home run of the spring with the club, a two-run shot to right. An inning later, with the bases loaded and two outs, De Vries struck again with a grand slam to right-center that suddenly made it 7-6.
Oakland kept coming. Andy Ibáñez tied it in the sixth with an RBI double. Then the A’s put the game away with four runs in the eighth. Clark Elliott singled home the go-ahead run, Ibáñez added another RBI knock and Colby Thomas ripped a two-run double.
De Vries finished with two homers and six RBIs. Ibáñez had four hits, while Thomas drove in two and scored once.
Vegas finish belongs to White and Bolte
In Las Vegas, the A’s had to wait longer for the offense, but it showed up when it mattered.
Tommy White opened the scoring with a solo homer in the second. After the Angels moved ahead 3-2, Oakland answered in the seventh. White singled, Henry Bolte crushed a two-run homer to left-center and Drew Swift added a two-out RBI single to make it 5-3.
The Angels got one back in the eighth on Oswald Peraza’s solo homer. However, White answered again in the bottom half with his second homer of the game, a two-run shot that gave Oakland breathing room at 7-4.
White finished with three hits, two homers and three RBIs. Bolte went 4-for-4 with a homer, two doubles and two RBIs. White, nicknamed “Tank,” was the Athletics’ second-round pick out of LSU in the 2024 draft and continues to mash as a non-roster invitee. He is now hitting .500 this spring with three home runs, four RBIs and a 1.619 OPS.
A crowd of 10,606 attended Sunday’s Big League Weekend finale at Las Vegas Ballpark, bringing the two-game series total to 21,353 fans in Summerlin.
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The A’s are back at it Monday. One squad heads to Cincinnati for a 1:05 p.m.
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