Sacramento fans ‘super aggressive’ in buying A’s tickets for first season in new city
After selling out season tickets and their opening day game, the Athletics say their success has continued with sales of individual game tickets for their first season in West Sacramento that went on sale Friday morning.
“It’s been super aggressive to this point,” said Steve Fanelli, the A’s vice president of sales and business operations. “The reception and the amount of people that have been jumping in to buy tickets has just been incredible.”
Fanelli said seven of the team’s 81 home games at Sutter Health Park in 2025 have already sold out and the club expects that number to double in the coming days. Individual tickets went on sale Friday morning at 10 a.m. locally on the team’s website after full season tickets sold out earlier this month.
As of Friday afternoon, two of the three games against the San Francisco Giants on July 4 weekend had sold out, as had the home opener March 31 against the Chicago Cubs. That game sold out earlier this week after roughly 74,000 people registered for a chance to purchase tickets.
Others popular games include a three-game set against the New York Yankees from May 9-11 and a series against the Boston Red Sox from Sept. 8-10.
“The ballpark is going to be an amazing, electric atmosphere,” Fanelli said. “It should be full nightly. And we’re hoping that people who want an opportunity to go and check it out to log on as soon as they possibly can and purchase the games that they want to buy.”
The A’s, of course, will be playing in the second smallest ballpark in Major League Baseball this coming season with a capacity of 14,000 when they take the field at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento. It was set to be the smallest, but the Tampa Bay Rays were forced to have their home games at the 11,000-seat Steinbrenner Field, the spring training complex for the New York Yankees located in Tampa, because Tropicana Field was badly damaged by 100-mph winds from Hurricane Milton in October.
The A’s will share Sutter Health Park with the Triple-A Sacramento River Cats, the top minor league affiliate of the San Francisco Giants. The two teams will have alternating schedules and will combine to play more than 150 regular season games at the ballpark.
Fanelli said the A’s are still working through how they will go about selling the 250 day-of tickets available for the outfield grass area beyond right field. Those tickets will each cost $25.
“We’ve been extremely excited and happy that the fans up in Sacramento have embraced us and we’re excited that we’re going to be playing in front of a packed house nightly,” Fanelli said. “I think people are going to really enjoy the atmosphere and the accessibility.”
This story was originally published January 31, 2025 at 5:22 PM.
