{"id":724126,"date":"2026-06-12T16:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/724126\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T16:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:18:12","slug":"sacramento-hopes-to-make-its-pitch-for-expansion-after-the-athletics-leave-for-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/724126\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento hopes to make its pitch for expansion after the Athletics leave for Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"YW2DMK42PJGCVKV4IWDXVOTZVI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty pointed to the fans filling up Sutter Health Park before the Athletics <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/yankees-athletics-score-rice-13run-inning-e7ac4844340b72d3f4026cc8ca837cfd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">took on the New York Yankees<\/a> in a recent series, including several wearing jerseys with Sacramento on the front.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"MYIMGAIEWFG3XNBS3DXUWFUIVQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">A region that has often been considered minor league in comparison to bigger California markets like the Bay Area, Los Angeles and San Diego is relishing its role as a way station for the vagabond A\u2019s and hopes one day to have a Major League Baseball team to call its own to go along with the NBA\u2019s Kings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty pointed to the fans filling up Sutter Health Park before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[43179,537,5,90449,4,76331,3226,256,39931,76332,76333,6179,3537,185],"class_list":["post-724126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletics","tag-2026-mlb-schedule","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-bbo-sacramento-expansion","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-2026-news","tag-mlb-athletics","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-mlb-highlights","tag-mlb-latest-news","tag-mlb-schedule-2026","tag-mlb-scores","tag-mlb-news","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116738044936901301","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724126","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=724126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}