On August 5, 2025, the Oakland Athletics dominated the Washington Nationals 16-7 at Nationals Park, driven by catcher Shea Langeliers’ historic three-homer performance in his first game batting leadoff.

Twins starter José Ureña (0–1) ran into trouble in the second after two quick outs. A hit-by-pitch and a pair of basehits loaded the bases for Lawrence Butler, who cleared them with a double to left. Oakland added three more runs in the frame, building a 6–0 lead the Twins couldn’t recover from. The Twins couldn’t even get halfway there.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Everybody said goodbye to Oakland Athletics baseball in their own way Thursday afternoon. After 57 seasons at the Coliseum -- and decades of indecision and vitriol swirling ...

The Oakland Athletics blanked the Washington Nationals 6-0 on August 7, 2025, at Nationals Park, riding a dominant pitching performance from Jacob Lopez and timely hitting to secure the series win. Lopez struck out a career-high 10 batters over 7 2/3 innings,

The Minnesota Twins came into Thursday’s matinee desperate to avoid a sweep against the cellar-dwelling Oakland West Sacramento Athletics. Instead, they fell flat, undone by one disastrous inning and a sputtering offense in an 8–3 loss at Target Field.

While Oakland has scored 424 runs in their 49 games, good for 8.65 per game, they've allowed just 249, or 5.08 per game. Not only are they winning, but they're winning convincingly.

The Athletics averaged 11,386 fans last season in the Coliseum, lowest in MLB. Meanwhile, the players play on, and whether the process turns out to be one big sinking ship remains to be seen.

Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry doesn’t want to think of the past when talking about Oakland, but the future the city deserves.

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