SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Athletics are back in the Bay area. For at least three days anyway.
More than a year after announcing intentions to leave their long-time home in Oakland to play at a minor league facility in Sacramento while a new stadium in Las Vegas is being built, the A’s made the journey south to face the San Francisco Giants in a three-game series that began Friday.
For Athletics general manager David Forst, that meant a trip across the Bay Bridge that used to take 20 minutes turned into a 90-mile afternoon drive.
“I thought I would have an easier commute today than I’ve had earlier, but the bridge traffic is terrible,” Forst joked while sitting in the visitor’s dugout at Oracle Park.