The A’s season doesn’t officially end until the final out on Sunday in Seattle. But the final game at the Coliseum , for many, marks the end of the Oakland era. In case you missed it, the franchise is temporarily headed to Sacramento .
They’ll settle in Las Vegas in four years if things go according to plan. Thursday is the A’s 4,493rd regular season game at the Coliseum. They played another 61 playoff games in Oakland and hosted the 1987 All-Star Game.
Here are a few of the A’s most memorable moments at the Coliseum since the A’s made their Bay Area debut on April 17, 1968: Sept. 4, 2002 – The streak lives on The A’s have more walk-off victories (485) than any other team during the Oakland era, but only Scott Hatteberg’s ninth-inning pinch-hit homer launched a book, a movie and sealed a then-AL-record 20-game win streak. Coming on the heels of consecutive walk-off hits by Miguel Tejada, the A’s – urged on by 55,000 screaming fans at the Coliseum – seemed to have the record-setter well in hand when Tim Hudson was gifted an 11-0 lead against the Kansas City Royals.
“I turned to (A’s pitching coach Rick Peterson) and said we’re finally going to have a ‘laugher,’” then-manager Art Howe recalled during the team’s 20th reunion of The Streak. “Around the fifth inning, all hell broke loose. “Then Scottie came through and took the heat off.
” Hatteberg had retreated to the clubhouse to drink coffee and watch the game on TV after the A’s to.