The Athletics’ move to a minor league ballpark continues to lead to issues that would typically befall a minor league team.
The team had a big problem with its injury cart during Saturday’s game against the New York Mets at Sutter Health Park in Sacramento, Ca. During the top of the second inning, Mets outfielder Jose Siri fouled a ball off his shin and was in serious pain.
Jose Siri goes down in pain after fouling a ball off his leg pic.twitter.com/8n1NdaoLTY
— SNY (@SNYtv) April 12, 2025
Siri was hurting so badly that he could not make it down the dugout steps to the clubhouse, and a cart had to be brought out for him. Actually, it was two carts, but one of them had some sort of mechanical problem.
Ultimately, Siri left the field on a golf cart. Members of the grounds crew were then forced to physically push the second, more traditional injury cart off the field midway through the second inning.
Jose Siri needed a golf cart to go to the clubhouse and the Athletics golf cart broke 🤦♂️ 💀 pic.twitter.com/wuQVa2Pbv1
— Captain (@El_Troll_SZN) April 12, 2025
It was not clear if the cart ran out of gas or had some other mechanical issue, but the Mets’ broadcast on SNY had fun with the fiasco.
“We used to have a saying back when I was doing minor league baseball in the 1980s. Whenever something like that would happen, we’d say, ‘That’s why they call it the minor leagues,'” play-by-play announcer Gary Cohen joked.
The A’s are playing at Sacramento’s Sutter Health Park, a Triple-A stadium, for the next three seasons while their new home is constructed in Las Vegas. We have already seen a few instances in which the facility has been found to be a bit lacking, and this is just the latest example of that. Fortunately, it did not actually wind up causing any further problems for Siri as he was helped off the field.
