OAKLAND >> The chants of “Let’s go Oakland” are permanently engraved into the fabric of Mark Kotsay’s mind. He’s heard those three words countless times — as a player, as a coach, as a manager. Regardless of how many souls occupied the Oakland Coliseum on any given night, Kotsay knew he’d hear those three words.

It was only appropriate, then, that following the A’s 3-2 win over the Rangers — the last game the green and gold will ever win at the Oakland Coliseum — that the packed house gladly accepted Kotsay’s request for one last cry.

Let’s go Oakland! Let’s go Oakland! Let’s go Oakland!“That’s exactly how it should have finished in my mind,” Kotsay said. “That’s going to be the memory that lasts with me for a lifetime.”

The definitive, lasting memory of this day from the A’s players and coaches — a collective that donned the kelly green jerseys with “Oakland” on the front — will differ from person to person.

For JT Ginn, whose major league career is barely a month old, it will be recording the final win in the history of the Coliseum in front of an announced attendance of 46,889— the first win of his major-league career, period.

For Mason Miller, the rookie All-Star who dazzled this venue with triple-digit heat, it will be recording the Coliseum’s final save.

For Brent Rooker, who could possibly have the final 40-homer season in “Oakland A’s” history, it will be hugging Rickey Henderson after Miller shut the door on the Rangers, then watching Kotsay take the microphone and address the fanbase one final time.

“You see people getting emotional. That hits you hard,” Rooker said. “There’s really, really good people who care about us players, but also as people. To see them hurting definitely gets you in your feels a little bit.”

The game was not without its disturbances. Given the context — given the vitriol — there was a collective sense that, at some point, something was going to happen.

Following six innings of peace, the game was briefly stopped on four separate occasions when objects were thrown onto the field. The true spectacle, however, was saved for the game’s final frame.

In the top of the ninth, two fans ran onto the field in the middle of Miller’s duel with Leody Taveras, completely stopping the action for several minutes. As security handled its business, several fans started throwing trash onto the field. Miller, undeterred, promptly struck out Taveras on the next pitch for the second out, then got Travis Jankowski to ground out to end the game.

“We kind of figured something like that was going to happen, either someone running on the field or them throwing stuff on the field,” Lawrence Butler said. “It was pretty cool, actually, to just be a part of that. I see it on TV all the time, streakers and stuff like that.”

“It wasn’t a full-on Raider game,” Kotsay laughed.

Unruly fans and smoke bombs aside, Thursday afternoon was as much of a celebration of life as it was a funeral.

The A’s paid tribute to their past in Oakland over the course of the afternoon. Oakland’s own Rickey Henderson and Dave Stewart threw out the first pitches to Lawrence Butler and Miller, respectively. “Bernie Lean” by ATM & IMD, a song that encapsulates the essence of the early-2010s teams, played on the scoreboard. Barry Zito, an anchor of the Moneyball-era A’s rotation alongside Tim Hudson and Mark Mulder, belted the national anthem.

“Man, he nailed it,” Kotsay said of Zito. “And for someone who’s never sung the anthem, I was scared for him. I was! That’s the toughest song. You see professionals — and he’s a professional singer — sing the anthem and they can butcher it. He was amazing.”

The game, itself, contained flashbacks to another famous late-season game between the A’s and Rangers.

In the bottom of the fifth inning, Rangers left fielder Wyatt Langford lost Bleday’s fly ball in the mid-afternoon, allowing the ball to drop and a run to score. The play was eerily similar to when Josh Hamilton dropped Yoenis Cespedes’ fly ball on Oct. 3, 2012, allowing two runs to score and paving the way for the A’s to clinch the American League West.

And when Tyler Ferguson entered for the seventh inning, he used “One” by Metallica as his walk-out song — the same tune that blared throughout the stadium before Grant Balfour picked up the save against Texas 12 year prior.

Ferguson’s walk-out song was just one of many sonic tributes to this city, to this place.

Seth Brown, owner of the last hit in Coliseum history, changed his walk-up song to “Put Me On Somethin’” by P-Lo for his first plate appearance and to “Super Hyphy” by Keak Da Sneak for his second plate appearance. Brown followed in the lead of Zack Gelof (“93 ’til Infinity” by Souls of Mischief), Lawrence Butler (“Thizzle Dance” by Mac Dre and “Calvin Cambridge” by SOB x RBE) and T.J. McFarland (“Jungle” by Andre Nickatina).

And, yes, there was no shortage of “sell the team” chants, the loudest immediately following the seventh-inning stretch.

Now, all that’s left of baseball in East Oakland are the memories. The A’s will play in a new house next year. Unlike the concrete cathedral located at 7000 S Coliseum Way, it will likely never be a home.