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April 24 - Oakland concluded their seven-game road trip with a four-game series at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California against the Los Angeles Angels. In the series opener, Brent Rooker and Jesús Aguilar each hit two home runs and Kevin Smith added a home run, as Oakland rallied from being down 8–7 to defeat the Angels 11–10 in 10 innings.
The matchup will be the club’s final home game at the venerable Oakland Coliseum. The team, which has called Oakland home since 1968, announced last year that it plans to build a stadium in Las ...
The A's set an Oakland record for longest shutout streak by their bullpen, as the club allowed no runs in 30.1 innings pitched, until the Marlins scored in the ninth. [46] On May 4th, Brent Rooker , seen here in the 2023 season, became the first Athletics player since Mark McGwire in 1996 to hit two home runs in the same inning.
After the Oakland Raiders moved to Los Angeles in 1982, many improvements were made to what was suddenly a baseball-only facility. The 1994 movie Angels in the Outfield was filmed in part at the Coliseum, filling in for Anaheim Stadium following the damage from the 1994 Northridge earthquake .
The 2020 Oakland Athletics season was the 120th season for the Oakland Athletics franchise, all as members of the American League, and their 53rd season in Oakland. The season saw the Athletics win the American League West for the first time since 2013 .
Roughly 1,000 baseball fans arrived to the Coliseum before 8 a.m. this morning to say goodbye to the Oakland A’s as the team prepared to play their final game at the storied stadium.
When Jackson played in Oakland, from 1968 to 1985, it was the golden era of A’s baseball. They won three consecutive World Series titles, reached the playoffs five consecutive years, averaging ...
It has been criticized as an area which has made the Oakland Coliseum look ever more like a football stadium, and not at all one for baseball. [131] From 1997 to 2005, while the A's opened part of the upper deck for baseball, they did not count it as part of listed capacity; while the "official" capacity was 43,962, the "actual" capacity was ...