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With the A's up 2–1, it came down to the bottom of the ninth, as the Tigers faced Blue. Norm Cash singled, but that was it as Tony Taylor flied to center for the final out. Odom got the win, Blue got the save, and the A's were a World Series team for the first time in Oakland, [1] [2] and won the first of three straight American League pennants.
In 1972, the A's won their first league pennant since 1931 and faced the Cincinnati Reds in the World Series. The A's seven-game victory over the heavily favored Reds gave the team its first World Series Championship since 1930. Of the four wins against the Reds, three of them occurred in Cincinnati, and all four Series victories were by a ...
The A's also had edges on the Giants in terms of overall postseason appearances (21–13), division titles (17–10) and World Series titles (4–3) since both teams moved to the Bay Area, even though the Giants franchise moved there a decade earlier than the A's did. On March 24, 2018, the Oakland A's announced that for the Sunday, March 25 ...
The roaring '70s. Hard as it might be to believe, there was a time when Oakland benefited from a baseball owner’s obsession with moving his floundering club to a new market.. In 1963, Kansas ...
Legendary Oakland A’s player Ricky Henderson hugs a fan before the final home game at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. In 2025, the A’s will play in West Sacramento.
Roughly 1,000 baseball fans arrived to the Coliseum before 8 a.m. this morning to say goodbye to the Oakland A’s as the team prepared to play their final game at the storied stadium.
The surge propelled the club to within two games of first place, but a prolonged funk saw the A's play roughly .500 baseball for the next month and a half. That ended with an unremarkable 2–1 loss in Oakland to the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday, August 12. [11] On August 13, the Athletics began their then-AL-record 20-game win streak.
A’s manager Mark Kotsay has experienced that first-hand, first while playing in Oakland for four seasons in the early 2000s and now while calling the Coliseum home as the skipper.