WEST SACRAMENTO -- The Athletics are running out of vocabulary to describe Nick Kurtz 's rookie season.

And after Kurtz’s latest jaw-dropping feat, that might just be a problem.

The slugging first baseman truly outdid himself in the eighth inning of Saturday’s 11-5 win over the Reds , crushing a titanic grand slam over the center-field batter’s eye at Sutter Health Park. The ball came off Kurtz’s bat at 114.6 mph and traveled a Statcast-projected 493 feet -- the longest home run hit in MLB in more than two years.

"I think we’re going to have to make up a new word for what he did to that ball,” A’s outfielder Lawrence Butler said. “That was insane.”

Kurtz salted away Saturday’s game -- and a series victory for his club -- with an eye-popping blast off Cincinnati reliever Scott Barlo

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