MacIver hits go-ahead single, throws out runner to end game as A’s stop skid and Phils’ win streak
Updated: 7:28 PM EDT May 25, 2025
HERE WITH METEOROLOGIST MARYELLEN PANN. IT’S A MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND SO WE HAVE A LOT OF STORIES TO GET TO, INCLUDING THAT IT’S A LITTLE BIT CHILLIER THIS WEEKEND COMPARED TO THE PAST. WELL, IT IS, BUT THE TREND FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW IS TO GRADUALLY WARM UP AND WINDS WILL DIE DOWN. SO IT IS GOING TO IMPROVE. AND I THINK TOMORROW IS GOING TO BE THE THE CAKE OF THE WEEKEND OR WHATEVER PICK OF THE WEEKEND. YEAH. SO WE’RE LOOKING GOOD. BUT LOOK OUTSIDE AGAIN AT YORK SKY CAM SHOW. MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES IN SOME AREAS. HAVE SOME CLOUD COVER, BUT STILL WE’RE STARTING OFF WITH SOME BRIGHT SUNSHINE AND CALM CONDITIONS, AND HIGH PRESSURE IS NOSING IN, HELPING TO RELAX THE WINDS SO THEY WON’T BE AS STRONG AS YESTERDAY. THAT UPPER LEVEL LOW THAT HAS PLAGUED OUR WEATHER THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS CONTINUES TO LIFT AWAY FROM THE AREA. TEMPERATURES RIGHT NOW UPPER 40S TO LOW 50S. WE HAVE 48 IN LEWISTOWN AND ELIZABETHTOWN, 46 IN NEW FREEDOM, 50 IN CARLISLE, 52 IN HARRISBURG. SO WE CONTINUE TO RUN BELOW AVERAGE, NOT ONLY FOR MORNING LOWS, BUT ALSO AFTERNOON HIGHS. I DO EXPECT A LITTLE MORE CLOUD COVER TO MIX WITH THAT SUNSHINE AS WE HEAD THROUGH THE DAY, BECAUSE WE STILL HAVE SOME UPPER LEVEL ENERGY. TEMPERATURES WILL TOP OUT IN THE UPPER 60S. 68 DEGREES IS WHAT WE’RE HEADED FOR. YESTERDAY WE WERE AT 65, SO A LITTLE BIT BETTER AND THOSE WINDS WON’T BE NEAR AS GUSTY AS YESTERDAY. WE’RE TALKING 5 TO 15MPH, OCCASIONALLY GUSTING CLOSER TO 20. SO CERTAINLY NOT AS GUSTY AND AS CHILLY AS IT WAS. SO A GOOD LOOKING DAY TODAY AND EVEN BETTER LOOKING MEMORIAL DAY FORECAST. I’LL HAVE MORE ON THAT COMING UP IN MY TEN DAY. ALL RIGHT. THANKS, MARY ELLEN. WELL, BREAKING OVERNIGHT, CREWS IN YORK COUNTY RESPONDED TO A HOUSE FIRE IN WARRINGTON TOWNSHIP. EMERGENCY DISPATCHERS SAY CREWS WERE WORKING AT A HOME ON POPLAR ROAD BETWEEN OLD YORK ROAD AND ROBINSON ROAD. THEY SAY THE CALL FIRST CAME IN AT AROUND 130 IN THE MORNING. NOW NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED. SOME GOOD NEWS FOR DRIVERS ON ROAD THIS MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND. GAS PRICES ARE DOWN AND ARE PROJECTED TO DIP LOWER LATER THIS SUMMER. WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT JACKIE DEFUSCO JOINS US LIVE. SO, JACKIE, WHAT’S DRIVING THE DROP? WELL, JAKE, IN RECENT DAYS WE HAVE HEARD THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TAKING CREDIT FOR LOWER GAS PRICES, THAT WE’RE REALLY SEEING AT PUMPS ACROSS THE COUNTRY THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND. SO WE WANTED TO KNOW, IS THIS REALLY BEING FUELED BY THE PRESIDENT’S POLICIES? I TOOK THAT QUESTION TO THE FUEL SAVINGS PLATFORM GASBUDDY. AMERICANS ARE SPENDING LESS CASH ON GAS THIS MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND. SUNDAY’S NATIONAL AVERAGE FOR REGULAR UNLEADED, $3.18 PER GALLON, COMPARED TO 360 A YEAR AGO, ACCORDING TO TRIPLE A. THIS IS DOWN FROM MEMORIAL DAY LAST YEAR AND ADJUSTED FOR INFLATION, IT’S THE SECOND CHEAPEST PRICE FOR A GALLON OF GAS ON MEMORIAL DAY SINCE 2003, THANKS TO PRESIDENT TRUMP. THE WHITE HOUSE THERE, CITING FIGURES FROM A GASBUDDY ANALYSIS. IT NOTES THIS YEAR’S RELATIVELY LOWER GAS PRICES ARE BEING INFLUENCED BY LOWER CRUDE OIL COSTS AMID AN INCREASE IN PRODUCTION FROM A GROUP OF EXPORTING COUNTRIES CALLED OPEC. IT COULD BE A POTENTIAL THAT OPEC HAS RAISED PRODUCTION TO CONTINUE THOSE WARMING RELATIONS WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP, BUT HIS POLICIES NOT HAVE ANY IMPACT, GASBUDDY’S CHIEF PETROLEUM ANALYST PATRICK DE HAAN SAYS. HERE IN THE U.S., OIL PRODUCTION ESTIMATES HAVE ACTUALLY FALLEN SLIGHTLY SINCE DECEMBER. THAT’S DESPITE PRESIDENT TRUMP’S DAY ONE EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT CALLS FOR UNLEASHING AMERICAN ENERGY. THERE’S A POTENTIAL THAT IN THE YEARS AHEAD, POLICY COULD EVENTUALLY LEAD TO MORE OIL PRODUCTION. BUT FOR NOW, THE LOW OIL PRICES ARE ACTUALLY LEADING TO LOWER U.S. OIL PRODUCTION. DE HAAN SAYS THE DROP IN OIL PRICES PARTLY STEMS FROM ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY DUE TO PRESIDENT TRUMP’S SWEEPING GLOBAL TARIFFS. THE CONCERN, CERTAINLY FROM APRIL, THAT TARIFFS COULD SLOW DOWN THE U.S. ECONOMY, WHICH WOULD IN TURN SLOW DOWN OIL CONSUMPTION AND SETTING ASIDE WHAT MAY BE DRIVING THESE LOWER PRICES AT THE PUMP. AGAIN, THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT GASBUDDY SAYS THAT THEY ARE HERE TO STAY, LIKELY THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER. AS IT STANDS RIGHT NOW, THEY ARE FORECASTING AN AVERAGE PRICE PER GALLON OF $3.02 NATIONALLY, WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF IT MAYBE DIPPING BELOW $3 AT SOME POINT THIS SUMMER. LIVE IN WASHINGTON I’M JACKIE DEFUSCO, WGAL NEWS EIGHT. ALL RIGHT, SOME GOOD NEWS IF YOU’RE DRIVING. THANKS, JACKIE. WELL, NEW THIS MORNING. RAPID TRANSIT SAYS MULTIPLE ROUTES WILL NOT BE OPERATING TOMORROW FOR MEMORIAL DAY. THE CAPITAL REGION AND YORK FIXED ROUTES WILL NOT BE RUNNING THE PARATRANSIT RAPID EXPRESS AND STOP HOPPER SERVICES ALSO WON’T BE RUNNING BECAUSE OF THE HOLIDAY. THE COMPANY SAYS THE GETTYSBURG FIXED ROUTE SERVICE WILL OPERATE AS NORMAL AND ALL ROUTES AND
MacIver hits go-ahead single, throws out runner to end game as A’s stop skid and Phils’ win streak
Updated: 7:28 PM EDT May 25, 2025
Willie MacIver had a tiebreaking single for his first big league hit in a two-run, eighth-inning rally, then capped his debut by throwing out a runner attempting to steal for the final out as the Athletics beat Philadelphia 5-4 Sunday to stop an 11-game slide and the Phillies’ nine-game winning streak.A’s manager Mark Kotsay and third baseman Miguel Andujar were ejected in the seventh inning by plate umpire Roberto Ortiz with the score 3-3, angered over a called strike.Philadelphia’s Trea Turner homered in the eighth off Hogan Harris for a 4-3 lead.Matt Strahm (1-3) issued a one-out walk in the bottom half to Logan Davidson, who hit a two-run double and singled for his first hits. He made a forgettable debut Saturday when he entered as a pinch runner in the 10th inning and was thrown out at the plate, was called for obstruction and ended a 9-6 loss by striking out.Lawrence Butler tied the score with a triple and MacIver singled to center.A day after blowing a ninth-inning lead, Mason Miller allowed a two-out single in the ninth to Alec Bohm. Johan Rojas pinch ran and MacIver, a 28-year-old catcher who had been in the minors since 2018, threw to shortstop Jacob Wilson, who tagged the sliding Rojas on an elbow.The A’s had to wait for a video review to uphold the call.Tyler Ferguson (1-2) got his first win since Sept. 18. Miller, pitching for a third straight day for the first time in his big league career, got his 12th save in 14 chances.Wilson hit a 420-foot homer on Jesús Luzardo’s first pitch as the A’s built a 3-0 first-inning lead.Turner had three RBIs, including an RBI single in the third and a sacrifice fly in the fifth. Phillies starter Jesús Luzardo struck out 10 in seven innings. A day after allowing Max Kepler’s tying ninth-inning homer, Miller retired him on a grounder starting the ninth before striking out Realmuto.The A’s had not lost 12 straight games in a season since 1994. Phillies: LHP Ranger Suárez (3-0, 3.70 ERA) starts Tuesday night at Atlanta against RHP Spencer Strider (0-2, 5.79 ERA).Athletics: LHP JP Sears (4-4, 4.00 ERA) starts Tuesday night at Houston against RHP Hunter Brown (6-3, 2.04 ERA).
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
Willie MacIver had a tiebreaking single for his first big league hit in a two-run, eighth-inning rally, then capped his debut by throwing out a runner attempting to steal for the final out as the Athletics beat Philadelphia 5-4 Sunday to stop an 11-game slide and the Phillies’ nine-game winning streak.
A’s manager Mark Kotsay and third baseman Miguel Andujar were ejected in the seventh inning by plate umpire Roberto Ortiz with the score 3-3, angered over a called strike.
Philadelphia’s Trea Turner homered in the eighth off Hogan Harris for a 4-3 lead.
Matt Strahm (1-3) issued a one-out walk in the bottom half to Logan Davidson, who hit a two-run double and singled for his first hits. He made a forgettable debut Saturday when he entered as a pinch runner in the 10th inning and was thrown out at the plate, was called for obstruction and ended a 9-6 loss by striking out.
Lawrence Butler tied the score with a triple and MacIver singled to center.
A day after blowing a ninth-inning lead, Mason Miller allowed a two-out single in the ninth to Alec Bohm. Johan Rojas pinch ran and MacIver, a 28-year-old catcher who had been in the minors since 2018, threw to shortstop Jacob Wilson, who tagged the sliding Rojas on an elbow.
The A’s had to wait for a video review to uphold the call.
Tyler Ferguson (1-2) got his first win since Sept. 18. Miller, pitching for a third straight day for the first time in his big league career, got his 12th save in 14 chances.
Wilson hit a 420-foot homer on Jesús Luzardo’s first pitch as the A’s built a 3-0 first-inning lead.
Turner had three RBIs, including an RBI single in the third and a sacrifice fly in the fifth.
Phillies starter Jesús Luzardo struck out 10 in seven innings.
A day after allowing Max Kepler’s tying ninth-inning homer, Miller retired him on a grounder starting the ninth before striking out Realmuto.
The A’s had not lost 12 straight games in a season since 1994.
Phillies: LHP Ranger Suárez (3-0, 3.70 ERA) starts Tuesday night at Atlanta against RHP Spencer Strider (0-2, 5.79 ERA).
Athletics: LHP JP Sears (4-4, 4.00 ERA) starts Tuesday night at Houston against RHP Hunter Brown (6-3, 2.04 ERA).