While the Houston Astros' cheating scandal is a national baseball story, certain MLB markets have added investment in what happened. Not just the New York Yankees, who lost a trip to the World Series in 2017 when the Astros beat them in the ALCS, or the Los Angeles Dodgers who lost that World Series to Houston, but also the A's, who narrowly finished as runner-up to the Astros each of the last two seasons in the AL West. Because of it, they had to settle for playing in the wild-card game in 2018 and 2019, which both resulted in season-ending losses.