The A’s, run like a minor league team for years and currently playing in a minor league ballpark, looked like a minor league operation on Saturday — requiring two different carts to help Mets outfielder Jose Siri off the field after he injured his shin during the game.
In the second inning, Siri fouled a ball off his shin and was unable to get down the steps of the dugout at at Sutter Health Park in Sacramento.
The stadium is typically home to the Triple-A Giants affiliate but is playing host to A’s home games through 2027 while the team, formerly based in Oakland, awaits the construction of its new permanent home in Las Vegas.
With Siri in obvious pain, a golf cart entered the field.
The idea was to ferry Siri the visiting clubhouse, which is located behind the fence in left-center; the golf cart had other ideas.
After stopping dead in its tracks, a second medical cart came along for Siri. Meanwhile four stadium workers pushed the stalled-out golf cart off the field.
It was not known if the medical cart had a mechanical issue or just ran out of gas; either way, it made for more A’s ridicule, this time from the SNY broadcast team.
“We used to have a saying back when I was doing minor league baseball in the 1980s,’’ Gary Cohen said. “Whenever something like that would happen, we’d say, ‘That’s why they call it the minor leagues.’”
Cohen’s colleague Ron Darling, an ex-Met who pitched the final four-plus years of his career for the Oakland A’s, joined in, saying, “This is something out of the [silent slapstick film series] ‘Keystone Cops’ right here.”
The A’s ended up winning the game — just their second victory at their new home park in eight games.
They have been drawing an average of 10,049 fans per game during their first home-stand, not far off from their average a year ago in their final season at the Oakland Coliseum, 11,386.
