Athletics first baseman Nick Kurtz made history on Friday night as the first rookie to ever hit four home runs in an MLB game.

The Big Amish has taken over the baseball world. Heck, there’s already a Big Amish T-shirt that has been produced and was distributed to the lockers of several players inside the Athletics clubhouse at Sutter Health Park on Monday afternoon.

Nick Kurtz is just 22 years old and has only played in 68 big league games. But one of those games just so happens to also be one of the best offensive performances in MLB history. On July 25 against the Houston Astros, the fourth-overall pick in the 2024 MLB Amateur Draft went 6-for-6 with four home runs, two doubles and eight RBI.

Nick Kurtz of the Athletics became the first rookie in MLB history to hit four home runs in a game Friday against the Houston Astros.

Both slugging first basemen began their careers with the Athletics, and are off to eerily similar starts to their big-league careers. Who holds the edge?

Recently, Athletics’ hulking rookie first baseman Nick Kurtz made baseball history. Kurtz, who was drafted in 2004 fourth overall by the Athletics had

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The Athletics rookie sensation's girlfriend is his Wake Forest college sweetheart that he likes to keep private. She keeps a low profile too.