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Smoke from nearby wildfires creates eerie baseball scene

by AP Baseball Writer
| September 10, 2020 12:03 AM

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — 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.

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