For the first time since 1967, there is no Oakland Athletics on the Major League Baseball season schedule.
The MLB released its 2025 season schedule Thursday, with “Athletics” or “ATH” listed for the A’s franchise, which will be going without a city name while it plays home games in Sacramento before the franchise’s planned move to Las Vegas in 2028.
The Athletics open on the road in Seattle on March 27 and play their first official home game at Sacramento’s Sutter Health Park on Monday, March 31.
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The Athletics season-opening schedule involves a significant amount of travel. After heading to Seattle for four games to start the season, the team will fly overnight to Sacramento for the Monday home opener against the Chicago Cubs. It will be only a three-game homestand, as the team then embarks for Colorado for three games in a series that begins on April 4.
After just three games on the road April 4-6, the Athletics again fly in with no off-day to start a homestand on April 7. That homestand will feature three games against the San Diego Padres and three more games against the New York Mets before they head on the road again for a six-game road trip that begins April 15 in Chicago.
It isn’t clear yet whether the Athletics will continue their tradition of a preseason three-game series against the San Francisco Giants in the Bay Area/Sacramento or whether the team will be heading to Seattle from their spring training home in Mesa, Ariz.
The Athletics will be sharing Sutter Health Park with the Triple-A Sacramento River Cats, which made planning the 2025 MLB schedule difficult, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. There is only one homestand that involves three different series for the Athletics all season, one in July that begins against the Giants on July 4 and runs through the All-Star break, which begins July 14. Three seven-game homestands have one four-game series and one-three games series with no off-day between them.

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Sutter Health Park is an open-air stadium, and there have been concerns about how major-league teams will handle the Sacramento summer heat, which can often run into the triple digits. The grass surface at the stadium will be replaced with a synthetic surface to accommodate the fact that the River Cats will be playing home games at the stadium when the Athletics are on the road, making it more difficult for the grass to be maintained through the hot summer.
The synthetic surface has raised further concerns about how hot it will be on the field in the heat of the summer.
Commissioner Rob Manfred dismissed those concerns earlier this week, telling reporters at the All-Star festivities that the turf will be similar to the ones used in domed stadiums in Arizona, Miami, Tampa Bay and Arlington, and that there will be “a specific hydration component to (the turf) in terms of water being added to it to cool the surface. We think that’s the best we can do in terms of playing surface in the heat with respect to day games.”

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Game times have not yet been released, so it is unclear how many games will be played during the day in the hottest summer months.
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