Athletics to play next 3 seasons in Sacramento
The Athletics will leave Oakland after this season and play temporarily at a minor league park near Sacramento until their planned new stadium in Las Vegas is built.
The A’s announced the decision to play at the home of the Sacramento River Cats from 2025-27 with an option for 2028 on Thursday after being unable to reach an agreement to extend their lease in Oakland during that time.
Sacramento Kings owner Vivek Ranadivé, who also owns the minor league River Cats, said the region has the potential to become a “mecca for sports.”
“We have an incredible community and a passionate fan base — the best fans in the world,” Ranadivé said. “Today’s announcement marks the next chapter of professional sports in Sacramento.”
Ranadivé joined A’s owner John Fisher and local officials to announce the news at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento, where the A’s will play for the next three seasons. The stadium is right across from the historic yellow Tower Bridge that connects the city with downtown Sacramento.
It is in an area where new restaurants, bars, and apartment complexes have opened up in recent years and is about a mile from the state Capitol and the NBA arena where the Sacramento Kings play. The stadium has 10,624 fixed seats and can currently hold 14,014 fans with lawn seating and standing room.
The stadium will likely need additional work to upgrade clubhouses, batting, and other facilities in order to host a major league team.
The team will be simply known as the Athletics, or A’s, without a city designation during the stay in Sacramento.
Mets split with Tigers
Pete Alonso launched a tying homer leading off the ninth inning, Tyrone Taylor lined a game-winning single, and the host Mets — after going 13 innings without a hit — rallied past the Tigers, 2-1, for their first victory of the season and a doubleheader split.
Harrison Bader’s bloop single to start the eighth was New York’s first hit in the second game.
But the Mets finally broke through in the ninth to give Carlos Mendoza his first win as a major league manager after an 0-5 start.
New York blew a three-run lead in the opener and lost, 6-3, in 11 innings after Colt Keith hit a tiebreaking double to help the Tigers improve to 6-0 before suffering their first loss of the season in the nightcap.
Guardians play spoiler
Tanner Bibee and the Guardians bullpen had 15 strikeouts to put the clamps on the host Twins in a 4-2 victory. Steven Kwan had three hits for Cleveland, spoiling the Twins’ home opener. Bibee (1-0) matched his career high with nine strikeouts, allowing one run over 5‚ innings. Four relievers followed, with Emmanuel Clase working a perfect ninth for his third save... Nolan Gorman hit a go-ahead two-run double in the seventh inning and the Cardinals won their home opener, 8-5 over the winless Marlins, who at 0-8 are off to the worst start in the 33-year history of the franchise . . . The Pirates rebounded their first loss and lowest-scoring game of the season by producing a four-run first inning with the help of Rowdy Tellez’s tworun single in a 7-4 victory over the host Nationals.
Marlins’ RHP Pérez out
Marlins righthander Eury Pérez will undergo Tommy John surgery and miss the season. Pérez had previously been diagnosed with mild inflammation after experiencing discomfort in his right elbow late in the spring, but surgery was not recommended . . . Righthanded pitcher
Mike Clevinger and the White Sox finalized a $3 million, one-year contract. He went 9-9 with a 3.77 ERA and two complete games in 24 starts with the White Sox last season . . . Former Red Sox outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr., 33, signed a minor league contract with the Long Island Ducks of the Atlantic League, the team announced.