Stephen Piscotty came up in a big moment for the Oakland Athletics on Tuesday night to give his team the victory over the Texas Rangers.
Piscotty hit the Athletics’ second walk-off grand slam of the shortened season to give Oakland its fourth consecutive win. It was his first home run of the season.
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“It's a lot of fun,” he said after the 5-1 victory. “Pretty unique for that to happen in such a short amount of time. It's a lot of fun celebrating like that.”
Oakland turned over a new leaf and performed a socially distant celebration as he headed for home plate. It was the team's second celebration at home plate as Matt Olson hit his own game-winning grand slam against the Los Angeles Angels on opening night.
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“I think we'd all seen a few walk-off homers and the way other teams were doing it,” Piscotty said. “Trying to be a little more distant there. Hard to control the emotions but we did a decent job I think.”
Oakland got five strong innings from Jesus Luzardo, who at 22 years old became the youngest Athletics pitcher to start a game since Brett Anderson in 2010. He went five strong innings, didn’t allow a run and struck out five.
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Oakland moved to 7-4 with the win and the Rangers fell to 3-6.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.