Sitting in the mostly-empty section 107 during the sixth inning on Sunday, just before the umpires mistakenly sent the Giants offense to the dugout with two outs remaining, one could have counted eight A’s jerseys, seven featuring the names of players no longer on the team (Matt Chapman, Rickey Henderson, Matt Olson, Jose Canseco and Dave Stewart). One thing I know about a Mark Kotsay-managed team is they’re going to play hard, they’re going to play nine innings and it’ll be fun to watch.” “But there are a lot of guys that are ready for their first Opening Day. “There are a lot of unknowns here,” Forst said. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group) (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group) Oakland Athletics’ Esteury Ruiz (1) is all smiles as he enters the dugout after scoring on a double hit by teammate Tony Kemp (5) in the second inning of their preseason MLB game at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, March 26, 2023. They’ll have to do it with a roster full of players most fans wouldn’t recognize. No other Cactus League team won fewer.Īsked before Sunday’s game if he was tired of answering questions about the A’s being perennially overlooked, general manager David Forst smiled and said, “I’m not sick of the question. Without a long-term stadium plan to fuel spending, they’ll enter Opening Day with a payroll of about $60 million, lowest in the majors, and having won just 10 games in spring training. At least it was fast, with an action-packed game played in just 3 hours, 1 minute. The obedient Giants defenders replaced them on the infield dirt before asking the umpires for clarification. With a man on first base, A’s infielder Tony Kemp fielded a throw from third and touched second for a force out, but never made the attempt to turn a double play and instead ran off the field. The umpires, now busy tracking such things as the number of seconds before a hitter steps into the box and the number of toes touching the outfield grass, lost track of the outs in the sixth inning. Just more than 11,000 tickets were sold on a bright afternoon, when a uniquely-modern brand of baseball was on display as the Giants out-hit and out-ran the A’s in a 9-5 win. OAKLAND - Speed, sunshine and chaos helped bring Major League Baseball back to the Bay Area for Sunday’s Bay Bridge Series exhibition game between the Giants and A’s.
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