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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Baseball fans in Las Vegas will have the chance to check out the MLB Athletics play a regular season game in the Vegas market in 2026 before the franchise hopes to have a new stadium on the Strip ready for the 2028 season.
In releasing their 2026 schedule Tuesday, the A’s said they are playing the Milwaukees Brewers at Triple-A Las Vegas Ballpark June 8, 9 and 10 and then will also host the Colorado Rockies June 12, 13 and 14 at the same venue in Downtown Summerlin. How it looks on the A’s schedule:
June weather in Summerlin can be rather toasty and hot with temperatures routinely hitting 100 degrees.
The A’s left Oakland last season after 57 years and are playing their home games in West Sacramento at a Triple-A ballpark while the 33,000-fan, domed, $2 billion stadium is built at the site of the former Tropicana hotel-casino at the southeast corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana Avenue. The A’s are building their new stadium on a nine-acre footprint on the 35-acre site.
There was chatter about the A’s possibly playing their homes in 2025, 2026 and 2027 at Las Vegas Ballpark, home of the Triple-A Aviators, which is also the Athletics’ Triple-A affiliate. But when a team opens a new stadium in a new market, it typically wants to maximize the splash of christening the new venue so they do not play their seasons in the same market before the stadium opens.
The A’s have played preseason games at Las Vegas Ballpark for the LVCVA-sponsored Big League Weekend in March.
The A’s hope to open their new stadium in Las Vegas with some of the young players they have signed to lucrative multi-year contracts.
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