Guardians 8, Athletics 0: Sparse crowd ushers in Oakland’s 57th (perhaps final) season

OAKLAND – One of the smallest Opening Day crowds in the Oakland A’s 57-year history showed Thursday night for possibly their final season debut at the Coliseum — an 8-0 shutout loss to the Cleveland Guardians.

While some fans bunkered in the parking lot to protest the A’s planned relocation to Las Vegas, there wasn’t much for the home fans to cheer amid the announced crowd of 13,522.

That was officially the seventh-smallest attendance in the A’s Opening Day history, although that...