Rooker’s 3-run homer and Civale’s 5th inning escape help the A’s to a 6-2 win over the Orioles
TRUCK DRIVERS, VOLUNTEERS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS BRAVED THE RAIN THIS MORNING IN THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY FOR THE ANNUAL MAKE A WISH MOTHER’S DAY TRUCK CONVOY. THE RAIN DIDN’T MAKE THINGS PLEASANT FOR THOSE COLLEGE GRADUATIONS, EITHER. BUT ARE WE DONE YET? WITH THE WET WEATHER IN TIME FOR MOTHER’S DAY PLANS? YEAH, WE ARE GOING TO BE SEEING SOME CHANCE OF SOME SHOWERS TO BRIAN AS WE GET INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE WEEKEND FOR MOTHER’S DAY. AND YOU CAN SEE STORM TEAM LIVE RADAR NETWORK HAD THOSE SHOWERS EARLIER TODAY, BUT THEY HAVE SINCE PUSHED OUT. STARTING TO SEE SOME CLEARING ACROSS THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY, LOOKING AT SOME MAINLY SUNNY CONDITIONS IN SOME COMMUNITIES. AS YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THOSE CLOUDS MOVING OUT. BUT ZOOMING OUT THE PICTURE, THERE’S THAT THERE’S THAT BATCH OF SHOWERS ALREADY MAKING ITS WAY OUT TO SEA AND OFF TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST. NOW, IN TERMS OF THE WEATHER HEADLINES FOR OUR MOTHER’S DAY, WE ARE LOOKING AT A FEW MORE SHOWER CHANCES. WE MAY HEAR A COUPLE RUMBLES OF THUNDER IN SOME OF THE IN SOME OF THOSE SHOWER CELLS FOR TOMORROW AND THEN HEADING INTO NEXT WEEK, BACK TO COOLER TEMPERATURES. BUT THEN AS WE HEAD INTO THE NEXT WEEKEND, WE ARE LOOKING AT A WARMING TREND. I’M SEEING 70S AND 80S TOWARDS THE TEN DAY FORECAST TEMPERATURES INTO THE 60S RIGHT NOW, MID TO UPPER 60S TOWARDS GETTYSBURG AND CHAMBERSBURG AT THIS TIME, AND 24 HOUR FORECAST AS WE GET INTO THE OVERNIGHT PERIOD, YOU CAN SEE TEMPERATURES GETTING DOWN INTO THE 50S. YOU CAN SEE CLOSER TO 4:00 DOWN TO 53 DEGREES, TOPPING OUT RIGHT AROUND 72 FOR TOMORROW ABOUT IN THE FULL FORECAST. BRIAN, COMING UP HERE IN JUST A FEW MORE MINUTES. BREAKING NEWS. THE YORK COUNTY CORONER HAS RELEASED THE IDENTITY OF THE 15 YEAR OLD, WHO WAS KILLED IN A SHOOTING IN YORK CITY THIS WEEK. DIE KAMALA HARRIS WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD SHORTLY AFTER THE CORONER’S ARRIVAL AT PENN PARK AROUND 1030 TUESDAY NIGHT. AN AUTOPSY PERFORMED YESTERDAY REVEALED HARRIS’S DEATH CAUSE OF DEATH TO BE A GUNSHOT WOUND TO HIS LEFT SHOULDER AND TORSO. HIS MANNER OF DEATH HAS BEEN RULED A HOMICIDE. YORK CITY POLICE ARE STILL INVESTIGATING THIS INCIDENT, AND THERE HAVE BEEN NO ARRESTS. POLICE COMMISSIONER MICHAEL MULDROW SAID IN THE WAKE OF HARRIS’S KILLING, THE SECOND HOMICIDE IN A FIVE DAY STRETCH IN THE CITY. THERE WILL BE A HEAVY POLICE PRESENCE ACROSS THE CITY WITH A CONTINUED EFFORT, INCLUDING DRONES, STATE POLICE HELICOPTERS AND RESPONSE TEAMS ON THE GROUND. IT WAS A MESSY MORNING OUT THERE ON THE ROADS OF THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY, WITH SEVERAL CRASHES CONFIRMED BY POLICE, ONE OF THEM RESULTING IN A FATALITY. STATE POLICE SAY 234 IN READING TOWNSHIP BETWEEN EAST BERLIN AND HAMPTON, WAS CLOSED FOR SEVERAL HOURS BETWEEN PEA TOWN ROAD AND CARLISLE PIKE AFTER A TWO VEHICLE CRASH AROUND 7:00. THE ADAMS COUNTY CORONER CONFIRMED HIS OFFICE WAS CALLED TO THE SCENE WHERE THEY PRONOUNCED THE PERSON DEAD. STATE POLICE TROOPERS SAY THE OCCUPANTS OF BOTH VEHICLES INVOLVED WERE TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL, BUT IT’S UNCLEAR HOW MANY WERE TAKEN. THE ROAD REOPENED JUST BEFORE NOON. THEN IN YORK COUNTY, OFFICIALS CONFIRMED TWO VEHICLES WERE INVOLVED IN A CRASH IN PENN TOWNSHIP. ABOUT A FEW HOURS AFTER THAT FIRST ONE. WE JUST TOLD YOU ABOUT. EMERGENCY CREWS RESPONDED TO THE INTERSECTION OF GETS RUN AND MILLSTONE ROADS. AROUND 1030. PENN TOWNSHIP POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING THERE, AND EPHRATA POLICE IN LANCASTER COUNTY INVESTIGATING A CRASH FROM THIS AFTERNOON AT THE INTERSECTION OF ROUTE 272 AND NORTH MUDDY CREEK ROAD IN EAST COLCALICO TOWNSHIP. THAT’S BETWEEN REAMSTOWN AND ADAMSTOWN. A PICKUP TRUCK AND ANOTHER VEHICLE WERE INVOLVED, AND WE’RE STILL WORKING TO LEARN IF ANYONE WAS INJURED. CHECK THAT OUT. DOZENS OF CUSTOMERS IN LEBANON CONTINUE TO BE UNDER A BOIL WATER ADVISORY AFTER A WATER MAIN BREAK SENT WATER SHOOTING INTO THE SKY LIKE A GEYSER. THIS IS WHAT RESIDENTS NEAR 12TH AND LEHMAN STREETS FOUND AFTER REPORTING LOW WATER PRESSURE AROUND 7:00 YESTERDAY MORNING. THE CITY WATER AUTHORITY ESTIMATES THAT IT LOST ABOUT 750,000 GALLONS OF WATER BECAUSE OF A BUSTED VALVE. THE WATER BOIL ADVISORY FOR 88 CUSTOMERS THAT WILL STAY IN EFFECT UNTIL TWO CONSECUTIVE WATER TESTS COME BACK POSITIVE. WITH CITY LEADERS SAYING THAT COULD TAKE UNTIL AT LEAST MONDAY. BACK TO THE ANNUAL MOTHER’S DAY MAKE-A-WISH TRUCK CONVOY, WHICH ROLLED OUT TODAY IN MANHEIM, LANCASTER COUNTY, FOR THEIR 37TH YEAR. TRUCKERS HELPED RAISE MONEY TO HELP MAKE DREAMS COME TRUE FOR MAKE-A-WISH KIDS IN THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. NEWS EIGHT’S TAYLOR HAAS INTRODUCES US TO SOMEONE WHO HAS HELPED TO GRANT MANY OF THOSE WISHES, AND A LITTLE GIRL WHO GOT TO TAKE A RIDE IN OUR VERY OWN STORM TRACKER. EIGHT. IT’S AN AMAZING FEELING. JUST LOVE DOING IT. LOVE SEEING A SMILE ON SOMEBODY’S FACE JUST TOUCHES MY HEART. IT’S MORE THAN A TRADITION. IT’S A MOVEMENT HELPING MAKE A WISH. GRANT WISHES. I HAD A GOAL OF. 30,000 AND WE’VE SURPASSED THAT. EVERY DOLLAR RAISED HELPS CREATE MAGICAL MOMENTS FOR CHILDREN BATTLING CRITICAL ILLNESSES LIKE KYLIE WILLIAMS. KYLIE HAS A RARE CONDITION CALLED HYPERINSULINISM. IT’S A RARE SUGAR BLOOD DISEASE, A LIFE CHANGING DIAGNOSIS FOR BOTH KYLIE AND HER FAMILY. SHE HAD A. SEIZURE WHEN SHE WAS ABOUT THREE MONTHS OLD, AND WHEN WE WENT TO THE HOSPITAL, HER SUGAR WAS REALLY LOW AND WE COULDN’T KEEP IT UP. SHE NOW HAS A NURSE BY HER SIDE FOR 20 HOURS A DAY, AND THROUGH IT ALL, THIS LITTLE PRINCESS NEVER LOST HER SMILE, ESPECIALLY AFTER HER WISH CAME TRUE. I WENT TO DISNEY. I WENT TO THE PRINCESS BALL. AND WHAT HAPPENED? AND WE GOT TO TAKE PICTURES WITH THE DISNEY PRINCESSES. AN UNFORGETTABLE TRIP MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE POWER OF MAKE-A-WISH. BUT FOR SOME FAMILIES, THEIR STORIES AND. DIFFERENTLY. WELL, THE WISH TRAILER IS A TRAILER THAT. 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Rooker’s 3-run homer and Civale’s 5th inning escape help the A’s to a 6-2 win over the Orioles
Updated: 7:23 PM EDT May 9, 2026
Brent Rooker hit a three-run homer in the third inning, and the Athletics beat the Baltimore Orioles 6-2 on Saturday.Video above: Top stories, weather from WGAL News 8. Aaron Civale (4-1) pitched five scoreless innings for the A’s. Shane Baz (1-4) allowed five runs in 4 2/3 innings for Baltimore, which lost for the eighth time in 10 games and received boos from the home crowd.Nick Kurtz doubled twice for the A’s and has now reached base in 33 straight games. He led off the first with a two-base hit and then scored on a single by Shea Langeliers.Rooker’s fifth homer of the season made it 4-0. Then the Orioles left Baz in to face the top of the order a third time in the fifth. Kurtz doubled, stole third without a throw and scored on a sacrifice fly by Langeliers. Baz’s outing ended when he was hit with a pitch clock violation for ball four to Rooker.Baz was Baltimore’s big offseason addition to a pitching staff that needed help. The Orioles then signed him to a $68 million, five-year contract that went well beyond what this front office had previously been willing to commit to a pitcher. In eight starts this season, he has a 5.48 ERA.Baltimore loaded the bases with nobody out in the fifth, but Civale worked out of the jam against some of the Orioles’ most imposing hitters. Adley Rutschman struck out, and Pete Alonso and Samuel Basallo hit shallow flyballs.Pinch-hitter Colton Cowser broke up the shutout with a two-run single in the eighth. Colby Thomas drove in the final run for the A’s with a ninth-inning single.Jacob Wilson of the Athletics unsuccessfully challenged called third strikes in both the second and third innings, meaning the team couldn’t call for any more ABS reviews after that.Up next The A’s go for a three-game sweep Sunday with Luis Severino (2-3, 4.15 ERA) on the mound. Chris Bassitt (2-2, 5.91) starts for Baltimore against the franchise he played for from 2015-21.
BALTIMORE —
Brent Rooker hit a three-run homer in the third inning, and the Athletics beat the Baltimore Orioles 6-2 on Saturday.
Video above: Top stories, weather from WGAL News 8.
Aaron Civale (4-1) pitched five scoreless innings for the A’s. Shane Baz (1-4) allowed five runs in 4 2/3 innings for Baltimore, which lost for the eighth time in 10 games and received boos from the home crowd.
Nick Kurtz doubled twice for the A’s and has now reached base in 33 straight games. He led off the first with a two-base hit and then scored on a single by Shea Langeliers.
Rooker’s fifth homer of the season made it 4-0. Then the Orioles left Baz in to face the top of the order a third time in the fifth. Kurtz doubled, stole third without a throw and scored on a sacrifice fly by Langeliers. Baz’s outing ended when he was hit with a pitch clock violation for ball four to Rooker.
Baz was Baltimore’s big offseason addition to a pitching staff that needed help. The Orioles then signed him to a $68 million, five-year contract that went well beyond what this front office had previously been willing to commit to a pitcher. In eight starts this season, he has a 5.48 ERA.
Baltimore loaded the bases with nobody out in the fifth, but Civale worked out of the jam against some of the Orioles’ most imposing hitters. Adley Rutschman struck out, and Pete Alonso and Samuel Basallo hit shallow flyballs.
Pinch-hitter Colton Cowser broke up the shutout with a two-run single in the eighth. Colby Thomas drove in the final run for the A’s with a ninth-inning single.
Jacob Wilson of the Athletics unsuccessfully challenged called third strikes in both the second and third innings, meaning the team couldn’t call for any more ABS reviews after that.
Up next
The A’s go for a three-game sweep Sunday with Luis Severino (2-3, 4.15 ERA) on the mound. Chris Bassitt (2-2, 5.91) starts for Baltimore against the franchise he played for from 2015-21.