It hasn’t been easy for the Oakland A’s to attract fans to their games in recent years, but over the weekend, a group that did attend appeared to end up in a fight.
A video posted to Twitter on Saturday showed more than a dozen fans engaging in separate scuffles outside an entrance at the Oakland Coliseum.
It’s unclear which game the fights occurred, as The A’s hosted the Astros for three games at home over the weekend following seven consecutive games on the road.
In the clip, the camera panned and showed at least two different altercations unfolding, but in the main one, a group of Oakland fans — with some donning jerseys — tried to land punches and dodge others.
It comes as team officials and officials from Nevada announced a deal Wednesday that would move the franchise from Oakland — where it has resided since 1968 — to a 30,000-seat stadium in Las Vegas for the 2027 season.
“This agreement follows months of negotiations between the state, the county, and the A’s, and I believe it gives us a tremendous opportunity to continue building on the professional sports infrastructure of southern Nevada,” Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo said in a statement Wednesday. “Las Vegas is clearly a sports town, and Major League Baseball should be a part of it.”
But that doesn’t change the present struggles the A’s have endured since 2020, when they made their most recent postseason appearance.
Their 2023 record sits at 10-45 entering Monday night’s game against the Braves, and the A’s average attendance of 8,886 through their first 28 home games is last in MLB.
The Marlins are the second-worst, averaging 12,289 fans per game.
During Sunday’s 10-1 loss to the Astros, Oakland tied the game, 1-1, in the bottom of the first but then allowed nine unanswered en route to its 11th consecutive loss and 14 in the last 15 games.
When designated hitter Yordan Álvarez blasted a homer — his second, and Houston’s seventh, of the day — in the top of the ninth, the Astros’ Twitter account posted, “10 runs in front of tens of fans,” though that has since been deleted.
Attendance Sunday afternoon at the Coliseum was 8,809.
