athletics

The Oakland Athletics have spent many years trying to get a new stadium. Time is running out on their efforts. They have watched Bay Area neighbors such as the the Giants, Warriors, 49ers and Raiders successfully move into state-of-the-art venues. The A’s have been negotiating for a stadium in Oakland or Las Vegas. Oakland officials want to keep the A’s,...

Former Oakland Athletics star and three-time World Series champion Sal Bando died of cancer at the age of 78 on Friday.

While Rob Manfred expressed optimism in Rays ownership to construct a new stadium in the Tampa Bay area, he was doubtful of the current situation underway with the Athletics in Oakland.

Stephen Vogt homered in his final game before retirement and scored the first run on a sacrifice fly after Shohei Ohtani pitched no-hit ball into the fifth, and the Oakland Athletics beat the Los Angeles Angels 3-2 on Wednesday.Mike Trout hit his 40th home run with two outs in the eighth, a 452-foot drive above the first level of center-field...

After 10 MLB seasons and six with the A’s, Stephen Vogt is calling it a career.

Luis Torrens homered for one of four hits by the stumbling Seattle Mariners as they were shut down again by the last-place Oakland Athletics, losing 2-1. Torrens connected in the eighth for Seattle’s lone bright spot after he had been called up earlier in the day. The Mariners are in the third and final AL wild-card position, four games in...

Luis Castillo got chased in the fifth inning and the contending Seattle Mariners managed just one hit, falling to the Oakland Athletics 4-1. Carlos Santana’s infield single in the second inning was all the Mariners could muster at the plate against JP Sears and four relievers. Seattle remained one-half game behind Tampa Bay for the third and final AL wild-card...

Seth Brown hit a pair of solo homers, rookie Adrián Martínez threw six innings of three-hit ball and the Oakland Athletics stalled the Baltimore Orioles playoff surge with a 5-0 victory Sunday.

Aníbal Sánchez earned his first victory in nearly two years, Luke Voit hit a two-run homer and the Washington Nationals beat the Oakland Athletics 5-1. Dermis Garcia homered for the second straight game for Oakland, which had its three-game winning streak snapped. The Athletics are an AL-worst 49-82 and assured of their first losing season since 2017.  Sánchez (1-5) worked...

Minor league call-up Adrián Martínez held New York hitless into the fifth inning and the Oakland Athletics shut down the powerful Yankees for a second straight game with a 4-1 victory.

Shea Langeliers scored the winning run on a throwing error by second baseman DJ LeMahieu in the 11th inning, and the Oakland Athletics held the New York Yankees to one hit in a 3-2 victory. With runners on first and second and one out, Chad Pinder hit an apparent double-play grounder to shortstop. The Yankees got the force at second...

Skye Bolt hit a leadoff sacrifice fly — as strange as that sounds — in the 10th inning and the Oakland Athletics beat the Miami Marlins 3-2 to avert a three-game sweep. With David MacKinnon on second base as the automatic runner and the score tied at 2, Marlins left-hander Richard Bleier flung a wild pitch. That advanced MacKinnon to...

Brian Anderson homered, Pablo López pitched six scoreless innings and the Miami Marlins survived Oakland’s ninth-inning rally to beat the Athletics 5-3. López (8-8) struck out five, allowing four hits and two walks in his first career start against Oakland. Anderson broke a scoreless tie in the fourth inning with a solo home run to left. Miami added four runs...

Elvis Andrus homered against his former team, Shea Langeliers doubled on the first pitch he saw in the big leagues and the Oakland Athletics beat the Texas Rangers 5-1. Oakland ended a nine-game losing streak. Andrus spent his first 12 seasons with Texas before a trade going into last season. His two-run shot in the seventh inning came in his...

Magneuris Sierra hit an RBI single in the 10th inning, then doubled home the go-ahead run in the 12th that lifted the Los Angeles Angels over the Oakland Athletics 5-4 for a three-game sweep. The A’s suffered their second winless homestand of the season at 0-5. Jaime Barría limited the A’s to an unearned run in three innings of relief...

Logan Webb returned to ace form and the Giants’ offense did what they do best in the Bay Bridge Series finale against the A’s.

Carlos Rodn allowed one run over 5 1/3 innings, guiding the Giants to a win over the Athletics on Saturday night.

The A’s completed the series sweep over the AL West-leading Astros on Wednesday.

Behind a big night from Tony Kemp and Adam Oller, the Athletics takes game one of a three-game series against the Houston Astros.

With the No. 19 overall pick of the 2022 MLB Draft, the Athletics selected Arizona catcher Daniel Susac.