A’s announce 2027 schedule including Yankees, Red Sox, Giants in West Sacramento
The Athletics on Thursday announced the schedule for their planned final season based in West Sacramento, which includes home games on some holidays and six more as the host team in Las Vegas.
Barring a work stoppage in 2027, the A’s will play popular teams at Sutter Health Park like the Chicago Cubs (April 5-7, the A’s first home series), New York Mets (April 19-21), Boston Red Sox (June 21-23), San Francisco Giants (Aug. 27-29) and New York Yankees (Sept. 10-12).
They will also host the Los Angeles Angels on Mother’s Day (May 9) and the Kansas City Royals on Labor Day (Sept. 6). A notable departure from 2025 and 2026, the A’s are slated to be on the road for July 4 next season, visiting the Washington Nationals in the nation’s capital.
The A’s Memorial Day contest against the San Diego Padres on May 31 will be the start of a six-game stint at Las Vegas Park in Summerlin, Nevada, at the home of their Triple-A affiliate, the Las Vegas Aviators. The A’s played six games there earlier this summer and went 4-2 combined against the Milwaukee Brewers and Colorado Rockies.
The A’s broke ground on their new $2 billion domed stadium on the Las Vegas strip last summer and remain optimistic it will open in time for the 2028 season.
Will there be a 2027 MLB season?
There is continued concern that the 2027 Major League Baseball season could be delayed or canceled entirely given the state of negotiations between the MLB Players Association and owners ahead of the expiration of the current collective bargaining agreement this coming offseason.
Owners are expected to want a hard salary cap in place, which remains a non-starter for players, according to numerous media reports in recent weeks and months. A new television model is expected to be a priority, given the fall of many regional sports networks across the country.
West Sacramento, meanwhile, is hoping its stint hosting the A’s will lead to MLB considering the region for expansion later this decade. It officially launched its MLB expansion pitch earlier this year, but faces competition from other Western markets including Salt Lake City, Portland and Vancouver, Canada.
The Sacramento bid includes some $1.8 billion in public and private funding for a new ballpark at or near the current site of Sutter Health Park. But the bid lacks a primary ownership candidate to foot the expected expansion fee, which could cost billions of dollars.
