The 2020 MLB season will start later this week, but first the Oakland A’s are playing two exhibition games against their local rival San Francisco Giants. The two teams will also face each other six times in the regular season, which accounts for 10% of their 60-game schedule — that’s almost the same percentage they play against their division foes in a normal season.
The competition between these two Bay Area clubs is usually more of a cultural one, but with all those dates together this year they’ll be more relevant to each other in the regular season standings than they’ve ever been before (not counting World Series meetings, of course).