The Oakland Athletics are not the first team to experience an issue from the COVID-19, coronavirus, problems with the Seattle Mariners announcing something similar earlier today. The Oakland Athletics have reportedly started the process of moving all of their home games to kick off the 2020 season. It was announced that the team would not be playing any home games in the Oakland Coliseum until at least March 31st. The KRON4 news team tweeted out the news as it became available as more and more organizations start moving this way with the coronavirus outbreak.
#BREAKING UPDATE: All #Oakland A’s home games have been canceled until March 31 https://t.co/RuczjtB3M3 pic.twitter.com/9OifNimLTC
— KRON4 News (@kron4news) March 12, 2020
The Athletics open up Minnesota Twins and Houston Astros at home, who will now most likely have the games rescheduled. So far, only the games through March 31st are being rescheduled, but looking ahead, after April 1st, the next time the Athletics will be back at the Oakland Coliseum is April 10th.
The hope would be that by April 10th, things will be getting better, not worse, and things can move forward as scheduled. The World Health Organization recently labeled COVID-19 as a global pandemic that has seemingly sent the sports world into a frenzy, trying to react, and make the appropriate changes necessary. As mentioned above, the Mariners have already made these rescheduling changes regarding their schedule.
Regarding other teams, Major League Baseball has a league-wide phonecall this Friday to talk about the best ways to go about this for organizations. It seems that there will be more clarity and more resolutions to some of the fears among the league.
