The Athletics smashed eight home runs in Sunday's 18-3 rout of the first-place Phillies, the most homers in a game by any one team since 1999.
Butler had six RBIs. Rooker tied his career high with five RBIs for Oakland, which entered with the fourth-fewest wins in baseball and trailing Seattle by 16 games in the AL West. The Athletics' eight home runs were estimated at a combined 3,340 feet.in September of 1999, when they hit nine against the Phillies. The MLB record is 10 home runs, set by the Blue Jays in 1987.homered for the Phillies.
Butler hit three two-run shots, in the fifth, seventh and eighth. The last of the trio went 449 feet into the second deck in right-center field. Rooker completed a red-hot three games in Philadelphia in which he went 7-for-12 with a double, three homers and seven RBIs. He launched his first shot 450 feet over the batter's eye in center field in the fourth off and then drove a Mercado 94 mph four-seamer into Ashburn Alley, which is the walkway beyond the outfield. That home run traveled an estimated 452 feet.
Turner put the Phillies ahead by sending a 2-2, 81 mph slider from Estes over the wall in left to give Philadelphia a 1-0 lead. It was the eighth home run in 12 games for Turner, who upped his season total to 11. He missed 38 games with a left hamstring strain.
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