Athletics 12, Phillies 1: Ginn, Four Homers Spoil Mattingly’s Rare Stumble

The lead

May 7, 2026 - Philadelphia - The Athletics turned Thursday into a loud getaway day. J.T. Ginn worked eight efficient innings, Zack Gelof homered, tripled, and drove in three runs, and Oakland piled up four home runs during a 12-1 rout of the Philadelphia Phillies that avoided a three-game sweep, per the Associated Press recap on ESPN.

Every starter in the order recorded a hit as the A’s finished with 13 knocks as a team.

How the game turned

The first decided it. Shea Langeliers and Brent Rooker each launched a two-run homer off rookie Andrew Painter (1-4) in a four-run first. Jacob Wilson made it 7-0 in the third with another two-run drive off Painter, extending Wilson’s hitting streak to 11 games, per ESPN.

Rooker added an RBI single in the fourth for 8-0 before Kyle Schwarber answered with a solo homer in the bottom half—Philadelphia’s only run on the board.

Pitching and matchup notes

Ginn (1-1), in his sixth start after moving from the bullpen, allowed one run on four hits with eight strikeouts and one walk. Painter was charged with eight runs and seven hits in 3 2/3 innings, pushing his ERA toward 6.89 in the wire story’s ledger.

Backup catcher Garrett Stubbs drew the night’s biggest Citizens Bank Park cheers with a 1-2-3 ninth—in a pitching appearance.

Bats that changed the board

Nick Kurtz stretched an on-base streak to 31 games with a first-inning walk—table-setting traffic ahead of the early long balls. Gelof’s extra-base combo paced the middle of a lineup that never let Philadelphia’s interim Don Mattingly stretch his second loss in 10 games into anything resembling momentum.

AthX Engine fantasy angle

Oakland led the May 7 slate at 26 AthX Engine team FP, with Ginn’s 27 pitching FP and Gelof’s 11 hitting FP pacing the daily export. Pairing a blowout inning with a durable starter line is a classic team-leader recipe in AthX Engine scoring. That output is separate from dynamic pricing.

What comes next

The A’s open at Baltimore on Friday with Jacob Lopez and Kyle Bradish in the AP lookahead, while Philadelphia welcomes Colorado with Chase Dollander and Jesús Luzardo on the bump.

*Sources: MLB.com schedule, ESPN recap, Associated Press via ESPN, and AthX Engine scoring. Information only; not financial advice.*