OAKLAND, Calif. – The Oakland Coliseum lights shone brightly for miles through a sunless, smoky sky in the middle of the afternoon — hours before they usually would be on for a night baseball game.
By mid-morning across San Francisco Bay, the Giants’ Oracle Park resembled a black-and-orange horror scene.A number of Northern California wildfires sent a thick, sometimes orange-glowing haze over the area Wednesday that left the Bay Area in an eerie darkness all day.
The sun was blocked by the smoke.“The lights were on when I first got here. It’s like we’re in a dome. It has been dark out there all day.
I don’t have any sunglasses to go out there with today," Athletics manager Bob Melvin said, later adding, "I have a white hat on today, see.