Valkyries caused Mercury lowering, 95-79, on Mother’s Day Home Opener

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Golden State Valkyries Gabby Williams (1) takes a jump shot against the Phoenix Mercury at the Chase Center on Sun May 10, 2026 (Golden State Valkyrie X photo)

By Michael Roberson

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — The Golden State Valkyries (2-0) won their initial home game of the 2026 & 30th WNBA season, with a victory over the Phoenix Mercury (1-1) 95-79 inside a raucous sellout Chase Center crowd.

The Mercury, fresh off the heels of upsetting the defending champion Las Vegas Aces on their home opener and ring ceremony, attempted to do the same at Ballhalla. Phoenix started the game with a 7-0 run, punching the home team in the mouth. The lead in the first quarter peaked at nine for the visitors from the Arizona desert.

After ten minutes of game action, the Valkyries trailed by three, 20-17. They chipped away from the larger deficit, to be within one possession of a tie or the lead. Golden State was about to make a gigantic roll of their own.

In the second quarter, the home team completed a 27-point turnaround, going from nine down to up by 18 before halftime. The Valkyries fought back and finally took the lead around the 7-minute mark of the second stanza. Later, with a 7-0 run included, they posted their highest advantage of 18 points. After outscoring Phoenix by 20 points in the second quarter, Golden State led by 17 at recess, 48-31.

Only one player on either squad scored at least 10 points at the half. Valkyries’ forward Kayla Thornton scored 14 points, in her attempt to recover from her season-ending injury months ago.

In the second half, Phoenix began the segment as they did in the first half, with an 8-0 run. They made several attempts to chip down the lead, but Golden State was able to stave them off every time. As the third quadrant ended, the lead was down to single digits (4), 66-62.

The final quarter was also contentious momentarily, as the Mercury was a three-pointer away from tying the game at 73. However, when that shot went awry, Golden State turned that opportunity into a 10-0 run for themselves. That essentially put the contest out of reach, during that time frame.

As the final buzzer sounded in the arena by the Bay, the Valkyries won by 16 points, 95-79, and were still undefeated.

The Valkyries had five players with double-figure scoring. Janelle Salaun led all players with 21 points, while both Kayla Thornton and Gabby Williams each had 19 points. Veronica Burton performed a double-double with 13 points and 11 assists, and Laeticia Amihere also chipped in 13 points.

The Mercury presented four hoopers with the aforementioned accomplishment. Alyssa Thomas almost messed around and had a triple-double, as she tallied 19 points, 11 assists, and 9 rebounds. Joining her was Jovanna Nogic (16), and Kahleah Copper & Natasha Mack, both put up 11 points for their team.

The Valkyries will next be in action Wednesday, May 13 KMAX/KPIX + against the Chicago Sky a 7:00pm tip in San Francisco, While Phoenix will be at home hosting the following two games the Minnesota Lynx Tuesday May 12 at 7:00pm PDT followed by the Chicago Sky 7:00pm PDT on Fri May 15 both games will be on 3TV.

Sacramento A’s podcast Daniel Dullum: A’s go 3-3 on road trip, hold 2 game lead in AL West; Sac opens 3 game set with St Louis Tuesday

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Sacramento A’s LHP starter Jeffery Springs will face the St Louis Cardinals at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento on Tue May 12, 2026 (AP file photo)

Sacramento A’s podcast Daniel Dullum:

#1 Sunday the Sacramento A’s just missed getting a sweep over the Baltimore Orioles by just a run 2-1 going 3-3 for the road trip.

#2 The A’s saw some successes on the trip getting some great hitting support from Nick Kurtz, Brent Rooker, and some solid pitching from Aaron Civale on Saturday for the win.

#3 On Sunday the Orioles wanted to avoid getting swept with some great pitching from former A’s pitcher and current Oriole Chris Bassitt who pitched six innings.

#4 Tough game for the A’s they didn’t get enough offense and scored only just a run and couldn’t get the sweep.

#5 A’s open up a six game homestand against the St Louis Cards Tue-Thu and San Francisco Giants Fri-Sun. The A’s have had some success with their starting pitching starter for St Louis on Tuesday RHP Andre Pallante against Sacramento LHP Jeffery Springs (3-2 ERA 3.89) first pitch 6:40pm PDT.

Daniel Dullum does the Sacramento A’s podcasts each Sunday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

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MLB The Show podcast Charlie O: Former Braves manager Bobby Cox dead at 84; Former Braves owner Ted Turner dead at 87; plus more news

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Former Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox (left) has his say with home plate umpire Rick Reed (right) in a game against the Toronto Blue Jays in the fourth inning in an interleague game at the Sky Dome in Toronto on Jun 13, 2001 (AP News file photo)

MLB The Show podcast Charlie O:

#1 At 84 years old former Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox passed away on Saturday. Cox won more than 2500 games as manager and went into the Hall of Fame in 2014. Cox was ejected over hs career as manager 158 times MLB record for a manager. Cox led the Braves to 14 straight divison titles from 1991 to 2005. He led the Braves to a World Series title in 1995. Cox as a player played two seasons for the New York Yankees and hit just .255.

#2 Former Atlanta Braves and Atlanta Hawks owner Ted Turner who passed away at age 87 this past week died at age 87 last Wednesday at his home in Tallahassee Florida as announced by a family spokesperson for Turner Enterprises. Turner was battling dementia and showed signs of having Parkinsons disease. Turner bought the Braves in 1976 and purchased the Hawks in 1977. In 1977 he created 24 all news cable station CNN. He sold the Braves and Hawks to Time Warner for $7.3 billion in stock in 1996. On May 11, 1977 Turner managed the Braves for just one game after previous manager Dave Bristol was fired. Then MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn ordered Turner to stop managing as owners are prohibited from managing. Turner was famouly married to actress Jane Fonda for ten years from 1991-2001.

#3 Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Bryce Harper left Saturday’s game against the Colorado Rockies due to a mirgrane headache. Harper had played in all of the Phillies 40 games so far this season was replaced by after fielding a ground out hit by the Rockies Mickey Moniak for an unassisted out. Harper was hitting .282 with nine home runs and 23 RBIs.

#4 Former San Francisco Giants catcher and current Cleveland Guardians manager Stephen Vogt is ready to help former Giants catcher Patrick Bailey get his swing back after Bailey was dealt to Cleveland on Saturday. Bailey was struggling at the plate hitting just .146, with one home run, five RBIs and 12 hits. Cleveland genreal manager Chris Antonetti said that the Guardians had an interest in Bailey for some time and the opportunity came up this week. Vogt whose worked with players and brought their game up is confident he can do the same with Bailey.

#5 The Sacramento A’s are starting to get some notice as they’ve been consistenly winning. The A’s have won six of their last ten games and were on a three game winning streak through Saturday night. The A’s were leading the second place Seattle Mariners in the AL West by 2 games and they were getting key hits from their line up of Nick Kurtz, Shea Langeliers, Brent Rooker and Carlos Cortes to name a few.

Charlie O does the MLB The Show podcasts each Sunday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Rodriguez walks off massive 7-6 12-inning gut-check win for Giants over Pirates

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San Francisco Giants Willy Adames hits a two run single in the tenth inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Oracle Park in San Francisco on Sun May 10, 2026 (AP News photo)

Sunday, May 10, 2026

Oracle Park

San Francisco, California

Pittsburgh Pirates 6 (22-19)

San Francisco Giants 7 (16-24)

Win: Ryan Borucki (1-1)

Loss: Justin Lawrence (0-2)

Time: 3:51

Attendance: 41,085

By Stephen Ruderman

SAN FRANCISCO–What a massive gut-check win for the Giants, who showed real resilience Sunday, as they came back from down two runs three times, and the youngster, Jesus Rodriguez, came up with the walk-off base-hit to beat the Pirates 7-6 in 12 innings here on Mother’s Day.

Fittingly, the Giants couldn’t make it two in a row after their win on Friday. Not just that, but they had their brains bashed in by the Pirates in a 13-3 shellacking Saturday night.

Prior to the game, the Giants made a series of roster moves. Ryan Walker, who came into the season as the closer, was sent down to Triple-A Sacramento. Gregory Santos was sent down to Sacramento as well. Sam Hentges was activated off the 15-day Injured List. Dylan Smith, whom the Giants acquired from the Tigers on March 30, was called up.

The Giants had their hopes in Tyler Mahle. Mahler of course has been off to a rough start this season, but he was solid in his last outing, when he threw five and third shutout innings against the Rays at the Trop last Sunday.

The Pirates got to Mahle for runs in each of the first two innings. Pirates’ starter Bubba Chandler, in turn, threw a pair of scoreless innings innings to start his day.

Jung Hoo Lee lined a double down the right field line with two outs in the bottom of the third. Honestly, I thought it wouldn’t amount to anything, but Luis Arraez lined a base-hit to left to get Lee in, and the Giants were on the board.

Heliot Ramos tied the game with a bomb half-way up into the bleachers in left with one out in the bottom of the fourth. Unfortunately, Oneil Cruz responded with a home run of his own to put the Pirates back ahead in the top of the fifth.

The Pirates got to Mahle for another run in the top of the sixth to make it 4-2, and Keaton Winn finished the inning. Mahler gave up four runs and five hits over five and two thirds innings. He walked two, and struck out eight. It was not the worst day for Mahle, and he gave the start the Giants needed from him..

Isaac Mattson came in for Chandler to start the bottom of the sixth, and the Giants would tie the game with three doubles. Rafael Devers led off the inning with a double. Ramos followed that up with a double of his own to make it 4-3, and Matt Chapman then doubled to tie it.

Winn and Sam Hentges—the latter making his Giants debut—combined for a scoreless top of the seventh. Caleb Kilian then got away with a pair of walks in the top of the eighth.

Dennis Santana came in for Pittsburgh in the bottom of the eighth. Devers led off with a towering shot that almost hit the green tin atop the Willie Mays Wall in right. He had a shot at a triple, but he watched his shot from the right-handed batter’s box, and selfishly cost his team a crucial 90 feet.

Tony Vitello asked the umpires to review it, and the call was confirmed. It would not have mattered had the call been overturned. It is never acceptable for a player to watch his shot if it is not a no-doubter than everyone in the ballpark knows his gone. Devers’ selfish act cost his team a run, as the Giants unsurprisingly wasted the opportunity.

Devers’ selfishness was not the only controversy in the bottom of the eighth. Don Kelly brought in the lefty, Gregory Soto, to face Drew Gilbert with two outs. Gilbert came into the at-bat 2-for-30 in his career against lefties, but Tony did not pinch-hit for him. Gilbert grounded out to first to end the inning.

Joel Peguero threw a scoreless top of the ninth, and Soto threw a 1-2-3 bottom of the ninth.

Peguero was back out for the top of the tenth, with Nick Gonzalez as the Manfred runner at second. O’Hearn grounded out, but Puguero hit Marcell Ozuna. Spencer Horwitz then came up, and shot a double into the gap in right-center. Dylan Smith finished off the top of the 10th, and prevented any further damage in his Giants debut.

The Pirates had their third two-run lead of the game, and the Giants were three outs away from falling to 10 games under .500.

Yohan Ramirez was in for the Pirates, and Luis Arraez was the Manfred runner at second. Tony sent up Bryce Eldridge to pinch-hit for Casey Schmitt to start the bottom of the tenth. Eldridge struck out on three pitches.

The Giants were down to their final out, but Willy Adames found it in him to shorten his swing, and line a base-hit to left-center to tie it. The throw from Pirates’ left-fielder Nick Yorke was spiked into the ground, and for the third time Sunday, the Giants had come back from a two-run deficit to tie the game. Jesus Rodriguez then chased two pitches in the dirt, as he struck out to end the inning.

I was certain the game was over when Tony brought in Ryan Borucki in for the 11th. With runners at first and second with one out, and Brandon Lowe at the plate, Kelly put on the hit and run, just as Tony did each of the last two nights. This proved to be a massive break for the Giants, as Lowe lined one right to where Adames was going, and he casually threw to first to turn the inning-ending 5-3 double play.

The Giants were unable to score against Ramirez in the bottom of the 11th, and Borucki’s first pitch in the top of the 12th was a wild pitch. The Pirates once again seemed to have the momentum, but Borucki worked another houdini act to get out of it.

Justin Lawrence was in for the Pirates in the bottom of the 12th, and Ramos was the Manfred runner. Let’s get right to it. Jesus Rodriguez was up with the bases loaded and one out. Rodriguez was 0-for-5, but he lined a base-hit the other way to right, or so we thought. Ramos completely misread the ball, and went back to third to tag up. Thankfully, O’Hearn didn’t see it, and Ramos scored the winning run to mercifully end this absolute cluster you know what of a game.

For his effort, Ryan Borucki got his first win of the season. Justin Lawrence took the loss.

The Giants got a much-needed win to improve to 16-24, and give them a little momentum into what is going to be a brutal four-game series at Dodger Stadium starting Monday night.

Trevor McDonald (1-0, 1.29 ERA) will make his second start of the season, and the Dodgers will counter with Roki Sasaki (1-3, 5.97 ERA).

Just win one in LA, and I can accept that for the time being.

First pitch will be at 7:10 p.m.

San Francisco Giants podcast Marko Ukalovic: Giants take two of three from Bucs in 12 innings 7-6

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San Francisco Giants Christian Koss (center) scores on Willy Adames’ single in the bottom of the tenth inning against the Pittsbugh Pirates at Oracle Park in San Francisco on Sun May 10, 2026 (AP News photo)

San Francisco Giants podcast Marko Ukalovic:

#1 The San Francisco Giants and Pittsburgh Pirates battled it out in a 7-6 duel that saw the Giants win it in 12 innings to take two out of three from the Bucs at Oracle Park on Sunday.

#2 The Giants Jesus Rodriguez hit an RBI single in the bottom of the 12th inning that helped the Giants come back from two two run deficits.

#3 The had the bases loaded against Pirates pitcher Justin Lawrence and Matt Chapman at the plate who hit a double that moved ghost runner Heliot Ramos to third base and Drew Gilbert drew an intentional walk. Rodriguez followed up and got a base hit to score Ramos for the Giants extra innings win. The fought and clawed in this one to get in win column.

#4 Giant reliever Ryan Boruki just got by with runners at first and third in the 11th and got out of the 12th with the bases loaded.

#5 It’s off to Dodger Stadium in the Southland for a huge series with the Dodgers starting on Monday night. Starters for Monday night Trevor McDonald (1-0, 1.29 ERA) will make his second start of the season, and the Dodgers will counter with Roki Sasaki (1-3, 5.97 ERA).

Tuesday starting pitchers for the Giants RHP Adrian Houser (0-4 ERA 6.19) for the Dodgers LHP Yoshnunobu Yamamoto (3-2 ERA 3.09) first pitch for both games 7:10pm PDT at Chavez Ravine.

Join Marko Ukalovic for the San Francisco Giants podcasts each Monday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Sacramento A’s game wrap: A’s Let Tight One Slip Away in Baltimore 2-1

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Sacramento A’s Jacob Wilson (5) slides into second base after getting forced out by Baltimore Orioles shortstop Gunnar Henderson (2) in the top of the second inning at Camden Yards in Baltimore Orioles on Sun May 10, 2026 (AP News photo)

By Mauricio Segura

The Sacramento Athletics were determined to finish their Baltimore road trip with a series sweep while adding more distance between themselves and the Mariners in the AL West standings. Instead, they were handed the kind of 2-1 loss that felt like unwrapping the gift they wanted, only to realize it was the Temu version. The Green and Gold had chances, had pitching, had traffic, and even had a late runway to tie the game. What they did not have was the one extra swing that turns a quiet afternoon into a happy flight home.

The game started with Keegan Akin retiring the A’s in order in the first, striking out Nick Kurtz and Brent Rooker around a Shea Langeliers groundout. Baltimore also went quietly in its half, though Taylor Ward briefly reached on a walk before Langeliers erased him trying to steal second. That throw, with Jacob Wilson applying the tag, was a sharp early reminder that this was going to be a game where every inch mattered.

The Athletics struck first in the second after Chris Bassitt replaced Akin. Tyler Soderstrom opened the inning by driving his 12th double to right, then moved to third when Wilson reached on Bassitt’s fielding error. Carlos Cortes, who came in as one of the hottest bats on the club and had been hitting .418 over his previous 16 games, did the useful thing and lifted a sacrifice fly to left. Soderstrom scored, and the A’s had a 1-0 lead without needing a big inning.

Luis Severino made that lead stand for a while. He retired the Orioles in order in the second, getting Pete Alonso and Samuel Basallo on grounders before handling Leody Taveras himself. Baltimore finally broke through in the third when Dylan Beavers doubled, Weston Wilson walked, and Blaze Alexander moved both runners with a sacrifice bunt. Gunnar Henderson then chopped a grounder to first that brought Beavers home, tying the game 1-1. Severino kept it there by getting Ward on strikes after a successful Athletics challenge overturned the original call, then retiring Adley Rutschman on a lineout to Wilson.

The middle innings turned into a test of patience. Jacob Wilson singled to start the fourth, but Cortes grounded into a double play. Zack Gelof and Jeff McNeil went down quietly in the fifth, and the Athletics missed a Baltimore threat in the bottom half when the Orioles loaded the bases with two outs. Severino escaped by getting Rutschman to fly to left, preserving the tie and giving the A’s another chance to scratch something together.

Baltimore finally grabbed the lead in the sixth. Basallo doubled sharply to right, Taveras singled him to third, then stole second. Beavers followed with a line-drive single to left, scoring Basallo for a 2-1 Orioles lead. Manager Mark Kotsay turned to Justin Sterner with runners still aboard, and Sterner did exactly what the A’s needed. After walking Weston Wilson to load the bases, he struck out Alexander and Henderson to stop the inning from becoming much worse.

The Athletics had their best late chance in the seventh. Cortes singled to center, then stole second as Lawrence Butler struck out. Gelof followed with a ground-ball single to center, and Cortes tried to score from second. Taveras charged, threw home, and Basallo made the tag for the final out. It was the game in one snapshot: the A’s aggressive enough to force the issue, Baltimore clean enough to make them pay.

Luis Medina then delivered one of the brightest Athletics moments of the afternoon. Entering in the seventh, he carved through Ward, Rutschman, and Alonso with three straight strikeouts. He followed with a clean eighth, getting Basallo on strikes before Taveras and Beavers flew out to Soderstrom. Medina’s two scoreless innings gave the A’s exactly the kind of bullpen lift they needed after entering the day with recent relief struggles.

The offense simply could not cash in. In the eighth, Kurtz walked and moved to second on a wild pitch, then Langeliers walked to put the tying run in scoring position. Rooker struck out, and Soderstrom flew out to right. In the ninth, Butler worked a two-out walk against Rico Garcia, but Gelof popped out to Henderson to end it.

For the Athletics, the loss snapped some road-trip momentum but not the bigger picture. They entered the day having won three straight, sitting in sole possession of first place for the 14th consecutive day. Kurtz’s walk pushed his on-base streak to 34 games, while Langeliers again showed value behind the plate even on a day when his bat stayed quiet. Severino battled through 5.1 innings, allowing two runs while keeping the A’s close, and Medina turned in a relief outing that deserved a louder ending.

This one will not go into the scrapbook, but it still said plenty. The A’s can pitch, defend, and fight through tight games. Today however, they just could not find the final hit hiding somewhere in Camden Yards.

The A’s head home to Sacramento tonight with a well-earned Monday breather on deck. By Tuesday, the feathers will be flying again, as the Cardinals come to town for a three-game set. Jefferey Springs (3-2 / 3.89 ERA / 39 K) will begin the series for the green and gold, while Andre Pallante (3-3 / 4.34 ERA / 29 K) is set to throw for St. Louis. Game time is  6:40pm from West Sacramento.

Costa Rican-born Mauricio Segura has been covering sports in the Bay Area since 2001 for a variety of magazines and newspapers, as well as his own publication, Golden Bay Times.

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⚡Craft cocktails? Check.
🔥Game-day bites? Oh yeah.
🏟️Steps from Golden 1 Center? You bet.

Open daily, Cyprus Grille is serving up local flavor with a front-row seat to the action. Stop by before or after the game—or make it your new downtown hangout.

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Happy Hour – 4pm-6pm

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Bay FC Match Wrap Up: Bay FC-Utah FC battle to a 0-0 draw

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Bay FC gave a strong effort forcing a 0-0 draw against one of the tougher clubs in the NWSL the Utah Royals FC at Pay Pal Park in San Jose on Sun May 10, 2026 (Bay FC X photo)

By William Espy

SAN JOSE–Bay FC returned home to PayPal Park to host a regular season game for the first time in a month looking to follow up a big road win against the San Diego Wave last week. This week, the surging Utah Royals were in town, looking to continue their strong start to the season. Bay stopped a good Utah club as both clubs ended up with a 0-0 draw on Sunday.

Utah nearly got a ball past Jordan Silkowitz in the 17th minute, but the header sailed wide of the goal. Silkowitz then denied Utah on the rush, making a tremendous toe save to deflect the ball out of play. After the fact, the Utah attack was ruled offside regardless.

Silkowitz was again called to action in the 36th minute when she had to punch away a Royals corner kick that was heading toward the back of the goal.

Rachael Kundananji had a great run for Bay FC in the 40th minute, dancing around the Utah defense, but when she eventually tried to take a shot, it was blocked in front of the goal by a defender. Hannah Bebar then fired a shot from the midfield that tested the Royals’ goalkeeper, but went just above the crossbar in the 44th minute.

At halftime, the score remained a 0-0 tie.

Early in the second half, momentum seemed to favor Utah. Claire Hutton was shown the game’s first yellow card in the 56th minute following a challenge in the midfield .Kiana Palacios almost shot a laser past Silkowitz in the 57th minute, but the shot went just wide of the net. Immediately afterward, Bay FC made their first substitution of the night. Caroline Conti entered the match for Taylor Huff.

In the 66th minute, Aldana Cometti was shown Bay FC’s second yellow card for the night. Silkowitz denied Paige Cronin on a one-on-one in the 68th minute, keeping the game deadlocked. In the 70th minute, Utah got their first booking of the night after Tatumn Milazzo blatantly pulled Karlie Lema’s jersey.

Dorian Bailey exited the match in the 73rd minute with Onyeka Gamero taking her place. Silkowitz made another massive save in the 79th minute, preventing Utah from taking a late lead. Moments later, Joelle Anderson was shown a yellow card.

Maddie Moreau entered the game for Karlie Lema in the 90th minute. Gamero fired a shot from distance in stoppage time, but the shot went out of play. Hutton took a shot in the dying moments of the game which was saved easily by Mandy McGlynn. Ultimately, the match ended in a 0-0 draw.

San Francisco Giants podcast Stephen Ruderman: Bailey traded for a guy named “Tugboat”; Giants carrying 3 catchers on club

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Matt “Tugboat” Wilkinson a left hander was traded to the San Francisco Giants from the Cleveland double A system in exchange for catcher Patrick Bailey (photo by Minor League Baseball)

San Francisco Giants podcast Stephen Ruderman:

#1 Former San Francisco Giants catcher Patrick Bailey was traded to the Cleveland Guardians for the 29th overall draft pick in the MLB draft Matt “Tugboat” Wilkinson. Tugboat is a 250 pound left hander. Is it going take a little time for the Giants to promotes Tugboat or do you see them calling up Tugboat sooner than later.

#2 Was the primary reason for trading Bailey that he was hitting .146 and was his offense hurting the club?

#3 Critics of the trade say he is a great defensive catcher and his tools of ignorance skills helped espeically working with the pitchers.

#4 The Giants are now currently carrying three catchers Logan Porter, Jesus Rodriguez, and Eric Haase. How soon will they be ready to getting used to working with with the Giants starting pitchers and bullpen?

#5 Taking a look at Sunday’s starting pitchers for the Pirates RHP Buba Chandler (1-4 ERA 4.76) for the Giants RHP Tyler Mahle (1-4 ERA 5.00) with a 1:05pm PDT first pitch.

Stephen Ruderman is a San Francisco Giants podcast contributor at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

That’s Amaury News and Commentary podcast: A’s returning from successful road trip; Open homestand against St Louis Tuesday

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That’s Amaury News and Commentary podcast:

I’m not that surprised that the Sacraamento A’s are in first place and their getting both the hitting and pitching, I wrote here on Sports Radio Service during spring training we know the A’s are going to hit with the line up that they have with Tyler Soderstrom, Nick Kurtz, Brent Rooker, Shea Langeliers and Lawrence Butler they all can hit.

Right now the A’s are in first place and had a successful road trip in Philadelphia and Baltimore. The A’s have improved with a starting roation JT Ginn, Aaron Civale, Luis Severino, Jacob Lopez and Jefferey Springs. The question is do the A’s have the pitching to make it in the line run.

The story of the pitching staff and Mark Kotsay is happy the direction his pitching staff is going and the management believes the same thing. The question is is this a .500 team or a team that has a shot at making the post season.

Amaury Pi-Gonzalez – Cuban-born Pi-González is one of the pioneers of Spanish-language baseball play-by-play in America. Began as Oakland A’s Spanish-language voice in 1977 ending in 2024 (interrupted by stops with the Giants, Mariners and Angels). Voice of the Golden State Warriors from 1992 through 1998. 2010 inducted in the Bay Area Radio Hall of fame.

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Earthquakes late conceded goal earns point in 1-1 draw with Whitecaps

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The San Jose Earthquakes starting XI pose for a picture before the start of the match against the Vancouver Whitecaps at PayPal Park that resulted in a 1-1 draw on Saturday MAY 9, 2026. (San Jose Earthquakes)

by Marko Ukalovic

SAN JOSE — In a battle for the top spot in the Western Conference, the San Jose Earthquakes and the Vancouver Whitecaps battled to a 1-1 draw on Saturday evening at PayPal Park.

San Jose extended its point streak to eight matches. Vancouver extended its point streak to six matches.

San Jose (9-1-2-29 points) drew first blood int he fourth minute. Paul Marie, who made his first start for head coach Bruce Arena, threaded a pass out to Preston Judd in stride inside the box. The veteran forward one-timed the ball into the right corner of the net past Whitecaps goalkeeper Yohei Takaoka for his team leading eighth goal of the season.

Vancouver (8-1-2-26 points) had a chance to even the match in the 29th minute when midfielder Jeevan Baldwal had a point-blank shot all alone inside the six-yard box, but Quakes goalkeeper Daniel knocked the ball away from danger.

Benji Kikanovic was issued a yellow card in the 36th minute after a ticky-tack foul was called on him just outside the box. Daniel was then also issued a yellow card for arguing the call with referee Malik Badawi.

Despite controlling the possession battle by a two-thirds to one margin and outshooting San Jose 6-2, Vancouver wasn’t able to generate many quality scoring chances in the opening 45 minutes.

Vancouver came out with vengeance in the second half as the dominated play from the opening minute all the way till stoppage time. They controlled the possession and kept the Quakes from counterattacking as they won the majority of the 50/50 balls. San Jose had a tough time dealing the Whitecaps physicality as the match ensued.

Daniel came up with three big saves in a span of three minutes. First in the 55th minute he knocked away a shot from 15 yards by Andres Cubas after being setup by Emmanuel Sabbi. Then in 57th minute he stoned away back-to-back chances inside the box by Bruno Caicedo and Badwal.

Vancouver finally broke through with the equalizer in the 76th minute. Sabbi found Sebastian Berhalter all alone along the right side of the box and Berhalter finished off a right-footed shot past Daniel for his fourth goal of the season, tied for second on the team with Tomas Muller who sat out the match with an illness.

Daniel finished the match stopping four of the five shots on target to earn the draw with his fellow keeper Takaoka who made two saves on three shots on target.

GAME NOTES: San Jose finished the match with two corner kicks. Vancouver had four.

UP NEXT: San Jose travels up to the Pacific Northwest to take on the Seattle Sounders on Wednesday May 13 at 6:30pm at Lumen Field.