MLB: Brent Rooker’s ninth-inning home run gives Oakland Athletics a walk-off win over Kansas City Royals
OAKLAND — Brent Rooker hit a two-run home run off Dylan Coleman in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Oakland Athletics a 6-4 win over the Kansas City Royals on Monday night in a matchup of teams with the worst records in the major leagues.
Kansas City had another runner in scoring position when Michael Massey singled and appeared to steal second with two outs. Massey was initially ruled safe, but the call was overturned after a video replay, ending the inning. As the baseball game was going on, musical artist Zach Bryan was playing close by at the Oakland Arena. Rooker, hitting .364 with three extra-base hits in his last six games before Monday, made sure the game with the Royals didn’t last any longer than it had to.
The Athletics won in front of their fifth-smallest crowd of the season and avoided falling 56 games under .500 for the first time since 1920.Gelof broke a 1-1 tie when he crushed a first-pitch slider from Alec Marsh over the wall in center leading off the third. It was Gelof’s sixth home run this month and ninth in his first 32 games, making Oakland’s hard-hitting rookie the quickest player in franchise history to reach that mark.
After Witt’s solo home run off starter Paul Blackburn in the sixth trimmed Oakland’s lead to 3-2, Langeliers countered in the bottom of the frame with his 12th home run, a 456-foot drive.
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