Reports: A’s to play in Sacramento in 2025
The Oakland Athletics are set for a one-year residency in Sacramento for the 2025 season while awaiting their new digs in Las Vegas, according to multiple reports.
Multiple outlets reported Sacramento was set to approve an agreement for the A’s “to play temporarily” at Sutter Health Park, home of the Sacramento River Cats.
The measure would be a stopgap for the A’s, whose lease at the Oakland Coliseum expires at the end of the current baseball season.
Major League Baseball approved the Athletics’ proposal for relocation from Oakland to Las Vegas in November.
Plans are in place for a $1.5 billion, nine-acre stadium at the site of the Tropicana Hotel with the City of Las Vegas granting $380 million in public funding for construction in 2023. But the ballpark will not open until at least the end of the 2027 calendar year, meaning the first season it could host the A’s in the regular season would be 2028.
Sutter Health Park has 10,624 seats but could be modified to accommodate up to 14,000.
THURSDAY’S GAMES
Tigers 6, Mets 3 (11): Gio Urshela had three hits — including a two-run single that capped a threerun 11th inning — for visiting Detroit, which overcame a three-run deficit to beat New York in the first game of a doubleheader.
The games between the teams Tuesday and Wednesday were postponed due to heavy rains.
Colt Keith snapped a 3-3 tie with a one-out runscoring double for the Tigers, who trailed 3-0 before earning their fifth straight win — the longest season-opening winning streak for Detroit since it opened 6-0 in 2016.
Andy Ibanez delivered a sacrifice fly to get the Tigers on the board in the sixth inning, and Riley Greene hit a game-tying homer in the eighth for the Tigers. Urshela scored Detroit’s second run on a wild pitch.
Francisco Alvarez (tworun double) and Brett Baty (single) had RBI hits for the Mets, who are 0-5 for the first time since 2005.
Tigers starter Casey Mize allowed three runs on five hits and two walks while striking out four over 4 1⁄3 innings in his first big league appearance since April 14, 2022. Mize missed last season while recovering from Tommy John surgery as well as a back surgery.
ELSEWHERE
Mets: J.D. Martinez remains in upramp phase in Florida at the spring training complex for the New York Mets and is not likely to play for the MLB club this week.
Mets manager Carlos Mendoza said Thursday that Martinez could advance from Port St. Lucie to one of the minor-league affiliates this weekend, but joining the Mets for his first game with the club by Sunday appears doubtful.
Mendoza said timing and mechanics have been “off” for the 36-year-old, who signed a $12 million deal in the final days of spring training.
Mendoza and members of management ruled out taking Martinez to Cincinnati this weekend as the Mets start a seven-day road trip. Now, they are discussing an itinerary that would include having him join the club in Atlanta next week, allowing Martinez to maximize his preparation until then.
Martinez was an All-Star for the third season in a row in 2023. In his lone season with the Dodgers, he hit .271 with a .321 onbase percentage, a .572 slugging percentage, 33 homers and 103 RBIs over 113 games.
LATE WEDNESDAY
Dodgers 5, Giants 4: Shohei Ohtani hit his first home run in a Dodgers uniform as Los Angeles finished off a three-game sweep of visiting San Francisco. Ohtani went deep into the seats in right-center field in the seventh inning off Giants left-hander Taylor Rogers in his ninth game of the season, ending the longest seasonopening homer drought of his major league career. Ohtani finished 2 for 4 with two runs. The Dodgers have scored at least five runs in all nine games this season to extend their franchise record and move closer to the New York Yankees’ record of 13 games in 1932.
Red Sox 1, Athletics 0:
Nick Pivetta teamed with four relievers for an eighthit shutout as Boston completed a three-game sweep at Oakland. Enmanuel Valdez lifted a sacrifice fly in the fourth inning for the game’s only run. Pivetta limited the A’s to five hits in five innings, and Kenley Jansen escaped a ninthinning jam for his second save.
Guardians 8, Mariners 0: Jose Ramirez hit two doubles and had two RBI and Logan Allen pitched
6 2⁄3 scoreless innings as Cleveland routed host Seattle. Leadoff hitter Steven Kwan went 3 for 5 and scored three times for the Guardians, who took two of three games in the series.
Twins 7, Brewers 3:
Ryan Jeffers cranked a go-ahead three-run homer with two outs in the top of the seventh to lift Minnesota at Milwaukee. Jeffers’ blast capped a five-run rally that the Twins used to erase a 3-1 deficit. Alex Kirilloff and Byron Buxton opened the frame with back-to-back doubles to pull Minnesota within 3-2, and Carlos Correa tied it with an RBI single.
East
New York Boston Baltimore Tampa Bay Toronto Central
Detroit Cleveland Minnesota Kansas City Chicago West
Texas
Los Angeles Seattle Houston Oakland
East
Atlanta Washington Philadelphia New York Miami Central
Pittsburgh Milwaukee Chicago Cincinnati St. Louis West
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5 5 3 2 1 W
4 4 3 2 1
3 2 2 0 0 W
5 4 4 4 3 W
1 2 2 4 4 L
.857 .714 .667 .429 .429
Pct
0 1.000 2 .714 2 .600 4 .333 4 .200 L Pct
2 2 4 5 6
2 3 4 5 7 L
1 1 2 2 4 L
.667 .667 .429 .286 .143
.600 .400 .333 .000 .000
Pct
.833 .800 .667 .667 .429
Pct
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Los Angeles Arizona San Diego San Francisco Colorado
FRIDAY AMERICAN LEAGUE
Toronto (Kikuchi 0-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Stroman 1-0),1:05
Oakland (Sears 0-1) at Detroit (Skubal 1-0),1:10
Chi. White Sox (Fedde 0-0) at Kansas City (Singer 1-0),7:40
Houston (Brown 0-0) at Texas (Bradford 1-0),8:05
Boston (Crawford 0-0) at L.A. Angels (Canning 0-1),9:38
NATIONAL LEAGUE
L.A. Dodgers (Miller 1-0) at Chi. Cubs (Hendricks 0-1),2:20
San Diego (Cease 0-1) at S.F. (Hicks 1-0),4:35
N.Y. Mets (Quintana 0-1) at Cincinnati (Greene 0-0),6:40
Philadelphia (Nola 0-1) at Washington (Corbin 0-0),6:45
Arizona (Henry 0-1) at Atlanta (Strider 0-0),7:20
INTERLEAGUE
Tampa Bay (Littell 1-0) at Colorado (Gomber 0-0),4:10
Baltimore (Rodriguez 1-0) at Pittsburgh (Jones 1-0),4:12
Seattle (Gilbert 0-0) at Milwaukee (Peralta 1-0),8:10
7 4 4 2 1
2 3 5 5 6
.778 .571 .444 .286 .143
THURSDAY
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland at Minnesota
Chicago White Sox at Kansas City
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Miami at St. Louis
Pittsburgh at Washington
INTERLEAGUE
Detroit 6, N.Y. Mets 3 (11) Detroit at N.Y. Mets, G2
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WEDNESDAY
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Baltimore 4, Kansas City 3
Texas 4, Tampa Bay 1
Boston 1, Oakland 0
Cleveland 8, Seattle 0
Houston 8, Toronto 0
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati 4, Philadelphia 1
San Diego 3, St. Louis 2 Washington 5, Pittsburgh 3
Chi. Cubs 9, Colorado 8
L.A. Dodgers 5, San Francisco 4
INTERLEAGUE
L.A. Angels 10, Miami 2
Minnesota 7, Milwaukee 3
N.Y. Yankees 6, Arizona 5 (11) Atlanta at Chicago White Sox, ppd. Detroit at N.Y. Mets, ppd.
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