Despite the residence of A, Giants still consider Sacramento for their home – the athletic – The New York Times

West Sachameno, California – the current status of the Sutter Health Park playing is more suitable for Bigfoot trucks than a baseball game.

Only seven weeks remain before the renovated Balpark from the Little League on the banks of the Sacramento River should be scheduled because of its soft reopening on March 23: an exhibition between the triple cats of the river and the San Francisco giants. River Cats will play their home opening against Albuquerque on March 28. Then the team, previously known as Athletics Oakland, after opening in Seattle Marinrs, will put the first game in the regular season of the Main League here, March 31. The host of the Chicago cubes and start what they call a three -year rental in Sacramento while working for their stated ambition to move to a permanent facility in Las Vegas in 2028.

The Ballpark Main League facelift is still a major job. The field in Sutter Health Park is dug, lowered and replayed. A new drainage and irrigation system is in the process of installation. Baseball employees in the main league consider (or hope) that improvements will give a natural lawn a combat chance to keep it in the summer of the triple degree of heat and the daily banging of baseball spikes.

The new club houses are in the process of building beyond the fence on the central field. Cranes and bulldozers are parked where the outfits will eventually camp under flies. The dough’s eye has been removed-the oldest is a common source of complaints from attackers due to glare from the early evenings-the prints are installed for a new and improved video board.

A little dream is needed to predict the final product.

“There is … some job to do,” said Giants right Logan Web as he was exploring the Balpark from the apartment level while attending the Giants Fenures stop in West Sacramento. “I was excited to come to see him. I thought it would be closer to what was done and … not near. “

“It’s hard to believe they will be ready on time,” said Giants infiltrate Tyler Fitzgerald. “But they will have to be.”

It will soon be a facility in a large league (sort of like).

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Temporarily sharing Sutter Health Park with A can be an inconvenience for people to develop Giants players, but this is also a means of completing a franchise that could have the bay zone immediately after 2028 if A was successful in Plans to build their permanent home in Las Vegas.

The siege war worked. The giants spent decades blocking A from moving to the South Bay and potentially rushed to one of the largest corporate centers in the world. Now they go out of town. But there is still some resemblance to a grass of grass between the franchises in Sacramento. Once the grass is planted, anyway.

A’s announced that they have sold all available seasonal ticket packages for 2025. But Giants are not about to abandon their many fans here.

“Can the people in Sacramento enter the city and go to Fanfest at Oracle Park?” Giants president Buster Operations said as he visits Sutter Health Park on Saturday. “Yes, but I think it’s a nice touch of players to make the effort to come here and show these fans that they are appreciated.”

Unsupported by the unhappy time, approximately a crowd of 6,000 Giants fans appeared on Saturday, and almost all of them huddled under the council as they tried to stay out of the rain. They waited in line at autograph stations and cabins for photos. They were shopping for orange and black goods – you had to look hard to find the clothing of A – and they gathered under a tent to hear Posey to borrow questions not as a franchise hunter, but as president of the Baseball Operations Club.

“Come here is always great,” said Web, who grows up in nearby Rockelin, California. “I think the weather was worse last year and there were just as many people. The whole northern California is the giants. So you can come to the fans in these places is cool. “

For the second year in a row, Giants broke their Fanfest at satellite events in Napa, San Jose and Sacramento. Last winter, Sacramento Stop attracted the largest crowds. The Saturday event that required fans to apply for a free ticket was almost as well present.

“When I realized that this was one of the three options, I immediately chose this one,” said Fitzgerald, who played in 102 games for River Cats in 2023 and 14 last season, before becoming a newly borne in the list of a large league. “I know here that people and fans know me. I have not played in San Jose and there is no team in Napa. So for me it was not a good time to come back and see those fans who cheered for me and pulled me to call for so long. “

Fitzgerald said he was eager to live the environment when Giants visited A on A on the fourth weekend.

“This place is quite exciting when it is packed,” Fitzgerald said. “I think it will be great for the players of A and the town of Sacramento and hopefully the river cats too.”

There will be no shortage of logistics problems to overcome while two teams try to share a facility. River cats have announced last month that they will move a series of six matches to Tacoma, Washington, in June, so that ground persons can regain the field in Sutter Health Park. This will mean three consecutive weeks on the road to the Triple team.

“I think everyone does the best thing that can with the situation,” Posey said. “That’s all you can ask for. We know some of the obstacles, but most likely others will pop up. We will be ready to work together to resolve them. “

The hiring of A will serve as a varieties of audition for Sacramento in his candidacy to hit a permanent franchise. Vivek Ranadivé, who owns the river cats, as well as in the Sacramento Kings of the NBA, did not make a secret of his desire to bid on a potential expansion team. There is also a lot of skepticism that it will make Las Vegas happen and that Sacramento will not be a road station at all.

Web said he was sure of one thing: the baseball of the basic league will be supported in Sacramento.

“There will be fans here all the time, looking at A,” Web said. “Sacramento has a really good fan base. Look at the kings. They have one of the best fan bases in the NBA. I would say ther Best. This will be a shorter driving for baseball fans to see (New York) Yankees and other teams that enter the city. I know Vivek will do everything possible to get a big league team here, and I’m a defender for it. I would like to have a team in Sacramento. “

River cats were A branch of A when the Web grew up, coming to home games. This is one of the reasons the web is considered a fan of A, although all his friends have been rooting for Giants.

“I’m coming in today and all the legumes are still there: Mark Ellis, Jack Coca, Bobby Crosby, Eric Birnes – all the players of A I watched when I came to games here,” said Web. “There are definitely more Giants fans here.”

(Photo of Sutter Health Park on April 4: Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press)