For the first time since moving to West Sacramento, the A's returned to the Bay to face their old Battle of the Bay Rivals, the Giants.

Tough start to the weekend

Have a night, Wilmer Flores. Flores enjoyed the best game of his 13-year career, hitting three home runs — a grand slam, a three-run homer and a solo shot — en route to recording a career-high eight RBIs as the Giants beat the Athletics, 9-1, in their first game back in the Bay Area. Flores provided more than enough run support for Logan Webb, who allowed one run over a season-high eight innings with four strikeouts. In the bottom of the third, Flores stepped into the batter's box with a golden opportunity to do damage: bases loaded, no outs.

The Giants announced ahead of their first game against the team formerly known as the Oakland A's that they've reinstated second baseman Tyler Fitzgerald from the 10-day injured list. In a corresponding move, the team has optioned infielder Brett Wisely to Triple-A Sacramento. Fitzgerald is slated to hit ninth and start at second base on Friday. “Very lucky to have this in the past and hopefully just move on from this and get going again,” said Fitzgerald, who has a .284 batting average with two homers and five steals this season.

The San Francisco Giants made a bold decision when they signed Jordan Hicks to a four-year, $44 million deal ahead of the 2024 season. For the first three seasons of his career with the St. Louis Cardinals, he was used as a relief pitcher. Eight times in 2022, out of his 35 appearances, he took the mound as a starting pitcher. The experiment was short lived as Hicks made 65 appearances out of the bullpen with the Cardinals and Toronto Blue Jays in 2023 before hitting the free agent market.

The Athletics are back in the Bay area. More than a year after announcing intentions to leave their long-time home in Oakland to play at a minor league facility in Sacramento while a new stadium in Las Vegas is being built, the A’s made the journey south to face the San Francisco Giants in a three-game series that began Friday. For Athletics general manager David Forst, that meant a trip across the Bay Bridge that used to take 20 minutes turned into a 90-mile afternoon drive.

Back in a familiar place we once called home

The Giants announced ahead of their first game against the team formerly known as the Oakland A's that they've reinstated second baseman Tyler Fitzgerald from the 10-day injured list. In a corresponding move, the team has optioned infielder Brett Wisely to Triple-A Sacramento. Fitzgerald is slated to hit ninth and start at second base on Friday. “Very lucky to have this in the past and hopefully just move on from this and get going again,” said Fitzgerald, who has a .284 batting average with two homers and five steals this season.

The Giants get back a power-speed threat at exactly the right time.

As the Athletics return to the Bay Area for the team's annual three-game series against the San Francisco Giants this weekend, many longtime fans are staying home and instead focusing their support on local teams. According to East Bay Times, many Oakland fans are skipping this weekend's series, formerly known as the Bay Bridge Series, against the Giants at Oracle Park because attending now feels like supporting a team that abandoned them.

Yesterday’s action on the farm.

Wilmer Flores drove in seven runs and Logan Webb was excellent in the San Francisco Giants' win over the Athletics on Friday at Oracle Park.

The San Francisco Giants have had a fantastic start to the 2025 season, even if they are sitting in third-place in the AL West. How much of that has had to do with their offseason moves, though? It was the first go-around for new Giants president of baseball operations Buster Posey, and he didn't do a ton to shift the roster.

The Arizona Diamondbacks got a good pitching performance from Corbin Burnes and three relievers and crushed the struggling Colorado Rockies on May 16.

The San Francisco Giants will take on the Athletics in MLB's inaugural Rivalry Weekend, leaving fans scratching their heads with more entertaining matchups with division rivals being in the cards for San Francisco. MLB went for more geographical rivalries than historical ones, with San Francisco's biggest rival, the Dodgers, taking on the Angels and the San Diego Padres facing the Seattle Mariners.