A’s Giving Themselves a Taste of Playing in Vegas This June

Posted on: August 26, 2025, 03:26h. 

Last updated on: August 26, 2025, 03:26h.

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The Oakland A’s aren’t waiting until April 2028 to play in Vegas. They’ve slated back-to-back series at Las Vegas Ballpark — home of their minor-league farm team, the Las Vegas Aviators – later this season.

The A’s released this rendering of their future home last year. But the baseball club isn’t waiting until this dream becomes a reality to play in Las Vegas. (Image: The Athletics)

The team will host the Milwaukee Brewers June 8–10, then the Colorado Rockies June 12–14, according to Major League Baseball’s newly released 2026 schedule.

It’s gesture symbolic of a step toward making their future home in on the Las Vegas Strip, though the financing to make that happen is still mostly unsecured.

The A’s say they intend to have their permanent home built in time to start the 2028 season.

Las Vegas Ballpark, which is located in the northwestern suburb of Summerlin, was mentioned for a while as a likely temporary venue. But owner John Fisher opted instead opted to play fulltime at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento until his team’s new stadium is complete.

This marks a sort-of homecoming for the A’s, who played the opening six games of the 1996 regular season at Cashman Field while the Oakland Coliseum was being renovated.

Stadium Update

The Las Vegas A’s stadium construction site as it appeared in late August. (Image: YouTube/@vVARIETY (Hosted by Dylan Sesco)

The Oakland Athletics’ future home is beginning to rise from the dust. The long-promised 33,000-seat venue entered its vertical construction phase, marking its first protrusion from speculation to reality.

The site — nine acres of the 35 left vacant when the Tropicana was imploded in 2024 — has been active since the ceremonial groundbreaking in June. In recent weeks, crews have moved beyond foundational prep and are now pouring concrete and installing rebar across the southern and southeastern portions of the footprint.

The stadium’s construction is being managed by the Mortenson-McCarthy joint venture, the same team behind Allegiant Stadium. It has already risen in cost to $2 billion from earlier estimates of $1.5 billion and then $1.75 billion.

If the construction is completed, it will represent a symbolic passing of the torch from the Rat Pack era of Las Vegas to a new chapter of sports-driven spectacle.