The Athletics are set to play six more games in Las Vegas next year at Las Vegas Ballpark in Summerlin, marking what would be the final home games the MLB team will play in Southern Nevada that aren’t in their under-construction $2 billion Strip stadium.
The A’s will begin their 2027 Las Vegas homestand by playing the San Diego Padres for a trio of games on May 31-June 2 and against the Cincinnati Reds on June 3-5, MLB announced Thursday.
The Las Vegas games and all the other games scheduled for the 2027 MLB season are tentative, as the players and the league negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement.
There is a chance that there is a lockout ahead of the season, as both sides are still far apart on the potential to add a salary cap in MLB. The NFL, NBA and NHL all have salary caps, limiting each team to a hard team salary number that can’t be surpassed, with the MLB being the only of the major four leagues without a cap.
The head of the MLB players union, Bruce Meyer, criticized the league for launching an ad campaign promoting a salary cap. It has been emphasized that the league’s players would never agree to a salary cap in baseball.
The league and its players will continue to negotiate the terms of a new CBA for the rest of the year.
Baseball’s labor contract expires Dec. 1. In 2022, an agreement wasn’t reached until March 10, causing opening day to be pushed back from March 31 to April 7.
MLB is set to have its earliest opening day next year except for international games, starting on March 24 — if there is an opening day.
MLB said its 2027 season will start with a single game to be televised that night by Netflix. The teams have not been chosen.
Opening matchups include Cleveland at the Chicago Cubs, St. Louis at Cincinnati, the Chicago White Sox at Detroit, Texas at Houston, Minnesota at Kansas City, Atlanta at the Los Angeles Dodgers, the New York Mets at Miami, the Los Angeles Angels at Milwaukee, Toronto at the New York Yankees, the Athletics at Pittsburgh, Arizona at San Diego, Colorado at San Francisco, Boston at Seattle, Baltimore at Tampa Bay and Philadelphia at Washington.
Chicago’s Wrigley Field will host the All-Star Game on July 13 and a rivalry weekend will follow.
The regular season is scheduled to end Sept. 26.
With no labor contract in place for 2027, no international games are scheduled.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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