Athletics had embarrassing problem with their injury cart

Siri was hurting so badly that he could not make it down the dugout steps to the clubhouse, and a cart had to be brought out for him. Actually, it was two carts, but one of them had some sort of mechanical problem.

Ultimately, Siri left the field on a golf cart. Members of the grounds crew were then forced to physically push the second, more traditional injury cart off the field midway through the second inning.

It was not clear if the cart ran out of gas or had some other mechanical issue, but the Mets’ broadcast on SNY had fun with the fiasco.

“We used to have a saying back when I was doing minor league baseball in the 1980s. Whenever something like that would happen, we’d say, ‘That’s why they call it the minor leagues,'” play-by-play announcer Gary Cohen joked.

The A’s are playing at Sacramento’s Sutter Health Park, a Triple-A stadium, for the next three seasons while their new home is constructed in Las Vegas. We have already seen a few instances in which the facility has been found to be a bit lacking, and this is just the latest example of that. Fortunately, it did not actually wind up causing any further problems for Siri as he was helped off the field.