The Oakland A's are no longer. | @NBC The A's final postgame show in Oakland was a taped postgame. by: Stephen Douglas Posted: Sep 30, 2024 / 09:53 AM CDT Updated: Sep 30, 2024 / 09:53 AM CDT SHARE The Oakland Athletics are no more. The A's franchise played its final game under the Oakland banner on Sunday and will now begin its journey towards Las Vegas, with a three-year stop-over in Sacramento. The team's last few years in Oakland have been a mess with ownership refusing to put together a competetive payroll and the results on the field matching with three consecutive losing sesaons. Between the impending move and the bad baseball, atteandance went in the tank. And yet somehow the organization

The Oakland A's are no longer. | @NBC The A's final postgame show in Oakland was a taped postgame. by: Stephen Douglas Posted: Sep 30, 2024 / 10:53 AM EDT Updated: Sep 30, 2024 / 10:53 AM EDT SHARE The Oakland Athletics are no more. The A's franchise played its final game under the Oakland banner on Sunday and will now begin its journey towards Las Vegas, with a three-year stop-over in Sacramento. The team's last few years in Oakland have been a mess with ownership refusing to put together a competetive payroll and the results on the field matching with three consecutive losing sesaons. Between the impending move and the bad baseball, atteandance went in the tank. And yet somehow the organization

The Oakland A's are no longer. | @NBC The A's final postgame show in Oakland was a taped postgame. by: Stephen Douglas Posted: Sep 30, 2024 / 09:53 AM CDT Updated: Sep 30, 2024 / 09:53 AM CDT SHARE The Oakland Athletics are no more. The A's franchise played its final game under the Oakland banner on Sunday and will now begin its journey towards Las Vegas, with a three-year stop-over in Sacramento. The team's last few years in Oakland have been a mess with ownership refusing to put together a competetive payroll and the results on the field matching with three consecutive losing sesaons. Between the impending move and the bad baseball, atteandance went in the tank. And yet somehow the organization

The Athletics lost their final game of the Oakland era, falling 6-4 to the Seattle Mariners on Sunday at T-Mobile Park.

If embattled owner John Fisher and his dreams of dollar signs in the Nevada desert come true, then his team played its final game as the Oakland A's on Sunday at T-Mobile Park. The last official game representing the city of Oakland was a 6-4 loss to the Mariners. It ends a long and acrimonious battle between Fisher and the city of Oakland over public funding for a new ballpark to keep the A's at home. Meanwhile, Major League Baseball has served as a feckless observer at times and a stubborn roadblock to a solution at others while crowds dwindled and anger and apathy spread.

The Athletics lost the final game of the franchise's Oakland era, falling to the Seattle Mariners 6-4 on Sunday at T-Mobile Park. Mitch Spence started the game off strong until the wheels game off in the fourth, with the Mariners breaking through for two runs. The A's tacked on two runs in the top of the ninth but Max Schuemann's strikeout ended the game and concluded 57 years of A's baseball in Oakland.

There was a little bit of everything for Seattle Mariners fans to enjoy in the 2024 season finale against the Oakland Athletics on Sunday at T-Mobile Park. A pitching masterclass by Logan Gilbert, a history-making home run by Cal Raleigh and a decent amount of offense helped lead the Mariners to a 6-4 win against the Athletics. The win gave Seattle a final season record of 85-77. It was also the last game for the Athletics before dropping "Oakland" from their name and heading to Sacramento for several years while their stadium in Las Vegas is built.

The A's play their final game as an Oakland-based franchise today, but as they have shown all season, they are not going quietly. Saturday night the A's broke out of a home run slump in a big way with three, including Shea Langeliers' go-ahead three-run homer with two out in the top of the ninth. Oakland had gone a season-high seven games without a home run before Brent Rocker hit his 39th homer of the season with one out in the top of the fifth to provide the A's their first runs of their final series of the season and cut the Mariners' lead to 3-2.

The A's play their final game as an Oakland-based franchise today, but as they have shown all season, they are not going quietly. Saturday night the A's broke out of a home run slump in a big way with three, including Shea Langeliers' go-ahead three-run homer with two out in the top of the ninth. Oakland had gone a season-high seven games without a home run before Brent Rocker hit his 39th homer of the season with one out in the top of the fifth to provide the A's their first runs of their final series of the season and cut the Mariners' lead to 3-2.

For the last time Sunday afternoon, the Athletics will wear their gray road jerseys with the word "Oakland" stitched across the front in cursive. After calling the Bay Area home for 57 seasons, the A's will spend the next three seasons playing at a minor-league stadium in Sacramento, Calif., while their new ballpark in Las Vegas is built. The season finale Sunday against the host Seattle Mariners won't elicit the same feelings as Thursday's final home game at the Oakland Coliseum -- A's pitching legend Dave Stewart compared it to going to a funeral -- but it will be bittersweet nonetheless. There were even some fans wearing yellow and green in the stands at Seattle's T-Mobile Park the past two nights.

A month ago, we asked readers to vote for their ultimate Oakland A's lineup card, selecting from the best players at each position over the team's 57 years at the Coliseum. But Steinbach was the quiet rock of the Bash Brothers era, batting under .265 just once (he was a .292 career hitter in the playoffs) while handling one of the best pitching staffs in baseball and was an All-Star Game MVP.

Oakland Athletics (69-92, fourth in the AL West) vs. Seattle Mariners (84-77, second in the AL West) Seattle; Sunday, 3:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Athletics: Mitch Spence (8-9, 4.35 ERA, 1.37 WHIP, 121 strikeouts); Mariners: Logan Gilbert (8-12, 3.33 ERA, 0.91 WHIP, 213 strikeouts) : LINE Mariners -150, Athletics +127; over/under is 7 1/2 runs BOTTOM LINE: The Seattle Mariners will try to keep a three-game home win streak going when they play the Oakland Athletics. Seattle has a 48-32 record in home games and an 84-77 record overall. The Mariners are 41-18 in games when they did not give up a home run. Oakland is 69-92 overall and 31-49 in road games. The Athletics are 47-18 in games when

Oakland Athletics (69-92, fourth in the AL West) vs. Seattle Mariners (84-77, second in the AL West) Seattle; Sunday, 3:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Athletics: Mitch Spence (8-9, 4.35 ERA, 1.37 WHIP, 121 strikeouts); Mariners: Logan Gilbert (8-12, 3.33 ERA, 0.91 WHIP, 213 strikeouts) BETMGM SPORTSBOOK : LINE Mariners -150, Athletics +127; over/under is 7 1/2 runs BOTTOM LINE: The Seattle Mariners will try to keep a three-game home win streak going when they play the Oakland Athletics. Seattle has a 48-32 record in home games and an 84-77 record overall. The Mariners are 41-18 in games when they did not give up a home run. Oakland is 69-92 overall and 31-49 in road games. The Athletics are

Leo Rivas scored on Justin Turner's fielder's-choice grounder to lift the Seattle Mariners over the Oakland Athletics 7-6 in 10 innings on Saturday night. Pinch-runner Rivas avoided Shea Langeliers' tag attempt at the plate with a wide slide, giving Seattle its third straight win and 11th victory in its final at-bat of the season. “That's not exactly what I was trying to do up there,” pinch-hitter Turner said of his grounder to second. “But (hitting coach Edgar Martinez) talks about it all the time, just trying to get a good pitch and hit it hard somewhere, move the ball forward and make things happen.”

Justin Turner's pinch-hit fielder's choice scored Leo Rivas from third base with one out in the bottom of the 10th inning, lifting the Seattle Mariners over the visiting Oakland Athletics 7-6 on Saturday night in the penultimate game of the regular season. Rivas, who started the inning at second base as the automatic runner, took third on J.P. Crawford's groundout to the right side of the infield. Following an intentional walk to Dylan Moore, Turner hit a slow grounder to second baseman Zack Gelof, who threw home but Rivas slid around the tag to score the winning run.

Leo Rivas scored on Justin Turner’s fielder’s-choice grounder to lift the Seattle Mariners over the Oakland Athletics 7-6 in 10 innings on Saturday night. Pinch-runner Rivas avoided Shea Langeliers' tag attempt at the plate with a wide slide, giving Seattle its third straight win and 11th victory in its final at-bat of the season. “That’s not exactly what I was trying to do up there,” pinch-hitter Turner said of his grounder to second.

For Oakland A's fans, the trek to Seattle this weekend was all about having a chance to say goodbye. Randy Garchar, 41, made the trip to Seattle from his home in Alameda, and said he has been a fan of the A's since attending his first baseball game at six months old.

Former Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane recently defended Farhan Zaidi as the Giants president of baseball operations faces increased scrutiny.

On August 17, 1999 the Oakland Athletics walloped the Boston Red Sox 12-1, moving them one game back of Boston for the AL Wild Card lead. Ah the good old days when there was just won wild card team per league. The next day, Kevin Appier took the mound for Oakland. GM Billy Beane had acquired the 31 year-old ace three weeks earlier in a risky trade deadline deal.

In an expected move, the Oakland Athletics announced today that right-hander Ross Stripling had been reinstated from the IL after progressing in his rehab schedule over the past week. The team also announced that Brady Basso, who just made his final start of the season on Wednesday, would be the odd-man out and be optioned to the Arizona Complex League. Stripling is 2-11 this season with Oakland with a 6.08 ERA in 21 games (14 starts).