The Athletics’ time in Sacramento, where they share a ballpark with the Triple-A Sacramento River Cats, hasn’t gone as well as planned. They had a 1-6 home record after a 7-6 loss to the New York Mets on Friday.
Then, on Saturday, they experienced a different type of problem before the bottom of the second inning when a cart stopped running, requiring several Sutter Health Park workers to push it off the field.
It started when Mets outfielder Jose Siri fouled a ball off his left leg in the top of the second, forcing him out of the game. A golf cart came to take Siri to the visiting clubhouse beyond left-center field, and a medical cart that had been trailing the golf cart became inoperable.
Jose Siri gets help leaving the dugout after fouling a ball off his leg against the A’s on Saturday. (Sara Nevis / Associated Press)
Following the action were SNY broadcasters Gary Cohen and Ron Darling, who poked fun at the unique situation.
“The problem now, down the left-field line, is one of the carts looks like it ran out of gas,” said Darling. “So Siri’s (cart) is all good, but now there’s one they’re pushing to get it off the field, because it doesn’t have any gas.”
“Well, you know, we used to have a saying back when I was doing minor-league baseball in the 1980s,” Cohen said. Whenever something (like) that would happen, we’d say, ‘That’s why they call it the minor leagues.’”
“This is something out of ‘Keystone Cops’ right here,” Darling said. “I think that now they’re not strong enough to get it up the little incline.”
Four workers were eventually able to shove the cart through an open portion of the outfield wall next to the left-field foul pole, and play resumed. Things got better from there for the Athletics, however, as they beat the Mets 3-1 in front of an announced crowd of 10,133 to improve their record on the season to 6-9.
(Photo: Sara Nevis / Associated Press)