LAS VEGAS — Lawrence Butler scored the go-ahead run in the seventh inning on a throwing error and had an RBI single in the eighth to lead the Athletics to a 6-4 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Friday night.Shea Langeliers and Nick Kurtz hit back-to-back solo home runs in the fifth for the A’s. Langeliers’ homer, his team-leading 18th, traveled 450 feet to center field. Kurtz, who has 16 homers, hit his 471 feet to right-center.Mason Barnett (1-0) worked 1 2/3 innings for the victory, and Hogan Harris got the final four outs for his sixth save.Zach Agnos (0-2) took the loss.Butler broke a 4-4 tie with two outs in the seventh when he got caught in a rundown. But Rockies catcher Hunter Goodman threw the ball away, allowing Butler to score. Goodman, who had slugged five home runs in his previous nine games, also went 0 for 4 and struck out three times. Zack Gelof singled in the sixth inning for the A’s to extend his career-high hitting streak to 16 games. Tyler Soderstrom extended his on-base streak to 21 games with a seventh-inning walk.Colorado’s Cole Carrigg hit a three-run 450-homer to right-center field in the sixth to put the Rockies ahead 4-2. Max Muncy answered wit …
