The A’s, run like a minor league crew for years and at the moment enjoying in a minor league ballpark, appeared like a minor league operation on Saturday — requiring two totally different carts to assist Mets outfielder Jose Siri off the sphere after he injured his shin through the recreation.
Within the second inning, Siri fouled a ball off his shin and was unable to get down the steps of the dugout at at Sutter Well being Park in Sacramento.
The stadium is usually residence to the Triple-A Giants affiliate however is enjoying host to A’s residence video games via 2027 whereas the crew, previously based mostly in Oakland, awaits the development of its new everlasting residence in Las Vegas.
With Siri in apparent ache, a golf cart entered the sphere.
The thought was to ferry Siri the visiting clubhouse, which is situated behind the fence in left-center; the golf cart had different concepts.
After stopping lifeless in its tracks, a second medical cart got here alongside for Siri. In the meantime 4 stadium employees pushed the stalled-out golf cart off the sphere.
It was not identified if the medical cart had a mechanical challenge or simply ran out of gasoline; both approach, it made for extra A’s ridicule, this time from the SNY broadcast crew.
“We used to have a saying again after I was doing minor league baseball within the Eighties,’’ Gary Cohen stated. “At any time when one thing like that might occur, we’d say, ‘That’s why they name it the minor leagues.’”
Cohen’s colleague Ron Darling, an ex-Met who pitched the ultimate four-plus years of his profession for the Oakland A’s, joined in, saying, “That is one thing out of the [silent slapstick film series] ‘Keystone Cops’ proper right here.”
The A’s ended up profitable the sport — simply their second victory at their new residence park in eight video games.
They’ve been drawing a median of 10,049 followers per recreation throughout their first home-stand, not far off from their common a yr in the past of their remaining season on the Oakland Coliseum, 11,386.
