Langeliers hits No. 20 and A's back Ginn with 3 HRs in 7-1 win over Dodgers that snaps 4-game skid

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Shea Langeliers hit his 20th home run and the Athletics defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-1 on Wednesday night to stop a four-game losing streak, their longest this season.

Jonah Heim and Alika Williams also homered for the A’s. J.T. Ginn (7-4) allowed one run and three hits in six innings to win for the fourth time in his last five starts. Ginn walked five and struck out four.

Freddie Freeman homered for the major league-leading Dodgers (56-31), extending his on-base steak to 16 games.

Los Angeles finished a 7-2 trip, one night after manager Dave Roberts became the fastest manager to reach 1,000 career wins.

After lopsided losses in the first two games of the series, the A’s took an early lead on Heim’s leadoff homer in the second.

Freeman tied it with his 14th home run in the third before the A’s scored twice in the fourth and added three more in the fifth.

Heim walked and scored on Lawrence Butler’s groundout in the fourth. Henry Bolte followed with an RBI single.

Langeliers started the rally in the fifth with his home run off Charlie Barnes (0-1). Nick Kurtz followed with a single and scored on Colby Thomas’ double. Heim added an RBI single to make it 6-1.

Williams homered in the eighth off Barnes, who threw 94 pitches in relief. He gave up seven runs and 12 hits over seven innings after opener Jack Dreyer struck out all three batters in the first.

Dodgers: RHP Roki Sasaki (3-5, 4.88 ERA) pitches against the San Diego Padres in Los Angeles on Thursday night.

Athletics: RHP Jack Perkins (2-3, 6.00) faces the Miami Marlins on Friday.

AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb

Los Angeles Dodgers' Freddie Freeman (5) celebrates with Teoscar Hernández (37) after hitting a home run during the third inning of a baseball game against the Athletics Wednesday, July 1, 2026, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Sara Nevis)

Athletics' Joshua Kuroda-Grauer celebrates after hitting a double during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers Wednesday, July 1, 2026, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Sara Nevis)

Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani at-bat during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Athletics Tuesday, June 30, 2026, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Sara Nevis)

Athletics' Nick Kurtz hit a single during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers Wednesday, July 1, 2026, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Sara Nevis)

Athletics pitcher J.T. Ginn throws to the Los Angeles Dodgers during the first inning of a baseball game Wednesday, July 1, 2026, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Sara Nevis)

HONOLULU (AP) — The golf season in Hawaii again starts at Waialae Country Club next year as a PGA Tour Champions event that will be called the Sony Championship.

The PGA Tour and Sony on Wednesday announced the change, which had been expected since April when the tour said it would not be returning to Maui for The Sentry, which since 1999 had preceded the Sony Open.

The Sony Championship will be Jan. 14-16 — ending on a Saturday — at Waialae, which had hosted a PGA Tour event since 1965. The prize fund will be $3 million. Past champions at Waialae now on the 50-and-older circuit include Ernie Els, Vijay Singh, Zach Johnson and Jerry Kelly.

It will be the sixth PGA Tour Champions course that once hosted a PGA Tour event.

"Sony has been an incredible PGA Tour partner since 1999, and we are looking forward to beginning this new era with the legends of the game competing on a truly iconic venue in Waialae Country Club,” said Miller Brady, president of PGA Tour Champions.

The transition keeps intact a charity component. Sony has contributed more than $27 million for Hawaii nonprofit organizations since it began as title sponsor in 1999. Hiroki Totoki, president and CEO of Sony Group Corp., said that was the “highest priority” in extending the partnership.

“We look forward to continuing our commitment to the state of Hawaii, and also to welcoming back many of the players and champions who have been such an important part of our history,” Totoki said. “We relish the opportunity to create new opportunities to deepen the connection between the tournament, our business community, and the people of Hawaii.”

IMG has been hired to run the tournament. The 78-man field at Sony is likely to be followed by the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai on the Big Island. It has not been determined if those tournaments will swap spots for future years.

AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf

FILE - Stewart Cink hits from the bunker on the 16th green during the final round of the Sony Open golf event, Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024, at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Matt York,File)