Las Vegas sports history will be made on Tuesday as it will be the first time a regular-season MLB game and an NHL game will be played in the city on the same day.
Tuesday will see Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final, with the Golden Knights facing the Carolina Hurricanes at T-Mobile Arena at 5 p.m. and the Athletics playing the Milwaukee Brewers at Las Vegas Ballpark in Summerlin with a scheduled 7 p.m. start time.
Very few, mainly standing-room only tickets remain for the Athletics game at Las Vegas Ballpark, which can accommodate 10,000 fans. Knights-Canes tickets are a hot commodity on the secondary market, with the average listing price for Game 4 on secondary ticket marketplace TickPick being $1,962. T-Mobile Arena can host north of 19,000 fans for Knights playoff games.
Tuesday’s game for the A’s will be the second of three that they will play against the Brewers in Las Vegas, with the third scheduled for Wednesday. Then from June 12-14 the A’s will play the Colorado Rockies to close out their first Las Vegas homestand.
While Tuesday’s occurrence will become the norm in less than two years’ time when the A’s leave their temporary home in West Sacramento and begin playing in their $2 billion, 33,000-fan capacity ballpark being built on the Las Vegas Strip, it will be the latest milestone hit in the city’s sports relatively young pro sports history.
The WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces have also played games on the same day as the Knights and the Raiders, which will occur again this weekend. At noon on Saturday, the Aces will face the Golden State Valkyries at Michelob Ultra Arena at the Mandalay Bay, then at 5 p.m., the Knights and Hurricanes will play Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final at T-Mobile Arena.
One of the first big milestones of multi-sports days came on Sept. 27, 2021, when there was a Las Vegas Aviators Triple-A game at Las Vegas Ballpark, a Raiders game at Allegiant Stadium, a Golden Knights preseason game at T-Mobile Arena and the NASCAR 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, all in the same day. The four-pack of events drew a combined crowd of around 125,000 fans that Sunday.
With the potential for more pro sports teams to be added to the Las Vegas landscape, with the NBA exploring the city for an expansion team and Major League Soccer’s Vancouver Whitecaps having a bid from a local investment group to relocate the team to Las Vegas, having multiple games in a day could become even more common place.
An occurrence that was unfathomable just a decade ago will now become a normal occurrence in the Las Vegas Valley.
Contact Mick Akers at makers@reviewjournal.com or 702-387-2920. Follow @mickakers on X.
