{"id":593737,"date":"2026-02-26T09:02:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/593737\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T09:02:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:02:44","slug":"sacramento-athletics-to-play-6-games-in-las-vegas-on-2026-mlb-schedule-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/593737\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento Athletics to play 6 games in Las Vegas on 2026 MLB schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The A\u2019s are set to make their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2024\/04\/04\/its-official-as-to-leave-oakland-play-in-sacramento-next-season\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">regular-season debut in Las Vegas<\/a> next season as their long march to the desert continues.<\/p>\n<p>The team, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2024\/09\/26\/as-close-out-57-year-tenure-at-oakland-coliseum-with-win\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">moved from Oakland to Sacramento<\/a> last offseason, plans to play two interleague series in the Las Vegas area in June at their Triple-A affiliate\u2019s stadium in Summerlin. They\u2019ll host the Brewers at Las Vegas Ballpark for three games from June 8-10 and the Rockies will visit from June 12-14.<\/p>\n<p>The Athletics\u2019 75 remaining home games will be played in West Sacramento at Sutter Health Park, the home of the Giants\u2019 Triple-A affiliate, where they are playing their home games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas Ballpark has hosted several A\u2019s spring training games in recent years, but this would be the team\u2019s first regular-season series there.<\/p>\n<p>Owner John Fisher\u2019s long-held ambition of opening a stadium in Vegas is optimistically set for 2028 after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/06\/23\/oakland-athletics-las-vegas-groundbreaking-sacramento-mlb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ceremonial groundbreaking<\/a> at the Tropicana site in June.<\/p>\n<p>The funding for the stadium remains somewhat up in the air as the stadium is now expected to cost roughly $2 billion, Fisher told the <a href=\"https:\/\/thenevadaindependent.com\/article\/fisher-says-cost-for-the-las-vegas-as-ballpark-has-risen-above-2-billion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nevada Independent<\/a> last month. The Gap Inc. heir who moved the team from Oakland after 57 years at the Coliseum has said he will pay roughly $1.1 billion of the construction cost, and in June <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/06\/17\/john-fisher-is-trying-to-sell-his-team-the-san-jose-earthquakes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hired a firm to help sell Major League Soccer\u2019s San Jose Earthquakes<\/a>, which he also owns.<\/p>\n<p>The A\u2019s play the Giants on both ends of the former Bay Bridge Series: In Sacramento on May 15-17 and at Oracle Park on June 23-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The A\u2019s are set to make their regular-season debut in Las Vegas next season as their long march&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[537,5,2178,4,3226,63,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-593737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athletics","8":"tag-athletics","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-mlb-athletics","13":"tag-oakland-athletics","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116136125848806323","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}