James Dolan owner New York Knicks (right) who had invited President Trump (left) to Madison Square Garden in New York for game 3 of the NBA Finals on Mon Jun 8, 2026 (AP file photo)
That’s Amaury News and Commentary podcast:
#1 Amaury you talked about Pres Trump’s appearance in the New York Knicks owner’s box of James Dolan. The players were tight lipped about the appearance the fans expressed displeasure by booing. Was it the right idea for Dolan to have Trump in the owners box on Monday night at game 3 at MSG?
#2 Amaury how impressed in the short period of time that the Vegas Golden Knights have been around that they have been to the NHL Stanley Cup Finals now this is their third appearance?
#3 Amaury, Your were the Golden State Warriors Spanish play by play voice in the 90s when you look at the orgainization now and see that they have vacated Spanish play by play and there is no reason given for not having Spanish play by play in the San Francisco market how surprising is that to you?
#4 Amaury, wanted to ask you about former San Francisco Chronicle columnist Glenn Dickey. Glenn was noted for writing subjects about all the major sports regarding the 49ers, Raiders, A’s, Giants, Warriors, during his peak career years. Dickey passed away in December 2025 after suffering from Dementia. People may not have agreed with what he wrote but he did his job and people read his articles like them or not.
#5 Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says that all 30 teams are aboard with their push for a hard salary cap even the Los Angeles Dodgers. Does MLB have enough going on their side of the argument that can make a salary cap stick or do the players have a enough leverage to hold, not get paid and be able to hold out and make the owners back down?
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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San Antonio Spurs Victor Wembyama (1) doesn’t take losing lying down. Wembyama led San Antonio with 32 points to help defeat the New York Knicks in game 3 at Madison Square Garden in New York on Mon Jun 8, 2026 (AP News photo)
NBA Finals podcast Tony Renteria:
#1 What were the biggest adjustments the Spurs made in Game 3 that allowed them to avoid falling into a 0-3 series deficit?
#2 Which individual matchup had the greatest impact on the outcome of the game, and why?
#3 How did the Knicks’ performance in the second half differ from their play in the first two games of the series?
#4 What strategic changes should New York consider before Game 4 to regain control of the NBA Finals?
#5 After Game 3, does the momentum of the series shift toward San Antonio, or do the Knicks still hold a clear advantage despite the loss?
A’ja Wilson became the fastest player to 6,000 points in Aces vs. Storm win. (Mike Kirschbaum/NBAE via Getty Images
By Rich Perez
Monday evening the Las Vegas Aces (8-3) defeated the Seattle Storm (3-10) 101-91. It was the A’Ja Wilson show. She finished with a double double, 34 points and 12 rebounds. She has won countless awards and tonight in the fourth quarter another accolade for Wilson. She reached and surpassed 6000 career points and she is the fastest athlete to have reached that mark in the WNBA.
Game recap: Monday night the Aces will be looking to hold down that second place spot and even make a move on the first place Lynx. The Storm outscored the Aces in the first ten minutes of play 25-23 but the Aces got going in the second quarter and with under three minutes left in the half Las Vegas had taken a ten point lead 46-26.
A’Ja Wilson had already scored 20 points and the team was protecting the ball well with only five turnovers. Their largest lead of the game had been 11 points. The Storm rallied in the final minutes of the first half cutting the Aces ten point lead to five 46-41. As the clock ran out in the first half the Aces had a 50-43 advantage. They had outscored the Storm 27-18 in the second quarter.
It had been all Wilson in the first two quarters of play. The Aces did have a bit of a slow start in the first quarter but they remained close due to the 12 points scored in the first quarter by Wilson. At the half Wilson had scored 21 points with six rebounds.
She was also two of four from downtown. She was running the show in the first half. Nalyssa Smith chipped in 13 points and seven rebounds. The strong start that the Storm came in with was buried by Las Vegas in the second quarter.
As the third quarter came to an end the Aces had outscored the Storm 22-16 and led 72-59 taking their largest lead of the game. The fourth quarter could be yet another milestone for A’Ja Wilson who needed one more point to reached 6,000 points.With 4:45 left in the game Wilson reached and surpassed 6000 career points.
The Storm outscored the Aces in the fourth quarter 32-29, but were unable to catch Las Vegas. The Aces won this game 101-91.
A’Ja Wilson finished with the game high of 34 points and a double double with 12 rebounds. At the half the team needed more from Jackie Young and Chelsea Gray and that’s just what they got. Young finished with 29 points and Chelsea Gray had 12. Nalyssa Smith also had a solid game coming very close to a double double with 16 points and nine rebounds.
The high for the Storm was Dominique Malonga with 19 points.
Game notes: Monday night the Aces picked up another home win as they beat the Storm at Michelob ULTRA Arena. The Aces were coming off a win over the Golden State Valkyries Saturday night 84-79 in a real nail biter that was not decided until the final seconds of the game. Seattle has been struggling losing Saturday night to the Lynx 88-68. Currently the Aces are holding down second place in the Western Conference.
Next up for the Aces will be the Portland Fire this Thursday night at Moda Center. Tipoff for that game is scheduled for 7:00 PM.
Former San Francisco Giant catcher Mike Sadek (right) puts a wet one on teammate Willie McCovey’s (44) cheek (photo from the SF Giants archives)
By Tony the Tiger Hayes
Mike Sadek wasn’t physically imposing, nor did he produce gigantic statistics, but the venerable 8-year big leaguer unequivocally had a #ForeverGiant heart.
Sadek, who passed at age 73 in 2021, would have turned 80 last week.
The feisty backstop, played for San Francisco in 1973 and from 1975-81.
A tightly coiled 5’9, 165 pounder, Sadek or “Sheik” to his teammates – was typically the backup to the backup receiver in San Francisco – averaging 50 contests per campaign.
Not much of threat at the plate, Sadek batted a modest .226, with 5HR and 75 RBI in 383 career contests.
But Sadek’s value to #SFGiants was never based on slugging percentage.
Sadek was a big leaguer for as long as he was, because of his catch & throw abilities and an innate ability to relate to pitchers.
“His skills were extraordinary,” former Giants pitcher John D’Acquisto told Sadek’s hometown paper The Calaveras Enterprise at the time of his passing. “His arm was above average. He had a really strong throwing arm. The ball never dipped down; it was always a straight shot from home to second. He had a very quick release. He blocked balls like there was no tomorrow.”
So when managers Wes Westrum or Joe Altobelli decided, say, to pinch hit for frontline receiver Marc Hill or spell regular Dave Rader, the club was in the capable hands of Sadek.
Sadek – who rocked uniform # 3 to match his position on the backstop roster – also played a vital role in maintaining a loose clubhouse culture.
The eternal ice breaker, Sadek was like the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle. Without him the team was incomplete.
“It was mostly not about baseball, that’s for darn sure,” D’Acquisto, said recalling the topics of conversations the pair would have on the sidelines. “We would just talk about life in general.”
Sadek was also a quite the lighthearted character – once riding the conveyor belt onto the baggage carousal at Montreal airport for laughs and a collective pot from his teammates.
In 1975, when the TV cop show “Kojak” was at the height of it’s popularity, Sadek, fellow catcher Rader and reliever Dave Heaverlo all shaved their to heads to ape the show’s red hot star Telly Savalas.
Needless to say, they didn’t quite pull off the look. In a clubhouse full of mod Giants sporting blowout Afros and corkscrew perms, the ragged trio looked more like devotees to “Synanon” the 1970s Marin County based cult populated by shaven headed devotees.
In 1966, San Francisco originally drafted Sadek out of his home state of Minnesota, but he opted to return to college. The Twins drafted him next, but San Francisco finally got their man in the 1969 Rule 5 draft.
As the Giants reserve catcher, Sadek was often asked to do the unglamorous duties of a bench player, warming up pitchers between innings, catching ceremonial first pitches or taking the blame when the ace has a sour outing.
The one place Sadek did receive preferential treatment was when verbose star pitcher John Montefusco was pitching.
Not matter what. The “Count” wanted his beloved Sadek as his personal catcher.
Montefusco bluntly stated Sadek was the best catcher he ever threw to because of his low target and great pitch- selection.
Sadek was Montefusco’s caddy on most of the Count’s personal best performances, save his 1976 No-Hitter (Gary Alexander).
In just over 10 days in 1975, “Shiek” was in the squat for Montefusco’s top three career strikeout games. (Fanning totals of 14, 13 & 12 in three consecutive starts)
The brilliant back-to-back-to back performances were likely the reason Montefusco was unanimously voted NL Rookie of the Year by the Baseball Writers Association in ‘75.
Sadek also caught a pair of 10 & 11 strikeout games by Montefusco in 1978 and produced with the bat.
In the former, a 10-7 win at Dodger Stadium, Sadek batted 3-for-5 with a career topping 3 RBI (5/19/78).
In the latter, a 9-3 win at Atlanta, in the matinee of a doubleheader, Sadek flogged a solo HR off Jamie Easterly (6/25/78).
After career highs in just about every offensive category in 1980, including batting (.254) Sadek just didn’t gel with new manager Frank Robinson. After the 1981 players strike was settled mid-season, Sadek was replaced on the roster by Triple-A catcher Bob Brenly.
But Sadek did not leave the Orange & Black fold, immediately joining the club’s community relations department.
His last day was in 1999 after the final Giants game played at Candlestick Park.
Before they closed the home clubhouse doors for good, Mike Sadek was the last man to leave..
The field of the Las Vegas Ballpark in Summerlin NV hosts the Milwaukee Brewers and the Las Vegas A’s on Mon Jun 9, 2026 (AP News photo)
By Lincoln Juarez
SUMMERLIN, NV – The Milwaukee Brewers topped the Las Vegas A’s 15-14 in 12 innings in an offensive clash to open up the three game series. Tyler Soderstrom and Nick Kurtz both hit two home runs with a combined seven RBI and still came up short after multiple comebacks.
For the first time since 1996, regular season baseball was played in Las Vegas, Nevada. The classic white “Athletics” scripted jersey giveaway filled Las Vegas Ballpark for game one of six and the start of a monumental week for the Athletics and their move to the desert.
The Athletics put on a Las Vegas show for the 8,519 attendees with a military flyover at the conclusion of the National Anthem and the legendary UFC host, Bruce Buffer announcing the A’s starting lineup in true Vegas fashion. Through the green and gold smoke that filled the air, the Athletics took the field on a beautiful 87 degree desert night.
Jeffrey Springs (3-6, 4.37 ERA) coming off a no-decision in his last outing at Wrigley Field, struggled to get out of the first inning after recording two outs through his first three batters faced. The Brewers scratched a two-out run across courtesy of Jake Bauers driving in Jackson Chourio with an RBI-single to left.
Shea Langeliers answered right back for the A’s, sending a towering shot over the left-center field scoreboard to tie the game on the first pitch the A’s saw. This would be the subtle foreshadowing of the night to come. It was Langeliers’ 17th home run of the season, tying him for sixth most across MLB, and only the fifth home run given up by Brewers’ starter Kyle Harrison. Harrison has been stellar for the Brew Crew since being acquired via trade from the Boston Red Sox prior to the 2026 season with a 7-1 record and 1.57 ERA through 11 starts before Monday night.
The long-ball struggles continued for Harrison on an uncharacteristic night, only making it through 2.1 innings while allowing three home runs and eight runs to cross the plate. The A’s six-run third inning gave Jeffrey Springs a comfortable 8-4 lead, however he was only able to last two more innings.
Springs had struggles of his own, giving up three more runs in the visiting half of the third including two big-flies off the bats of Brice Turang (10) and Andrew Vaughn (2). Milwaukee clawed one more across in the fifth which wound up as Springs’ final inning of the night. He finished with a final line of 5.0 IP, 8 H, 5 ER, 2 BB, 3 K.
The home run derby continued for the swingin’ A’s in the home sixth with Nick Kurtz rounding the bases to make it 9-5 Athletics on his 13th homer of the season.
The scoring lasted all night as the two lineups dueled it out like the main event of a UFC Fight Night on the Strip. Milwaukee wouldn’t go away en route to a ninth inning comeback to tie the game at 10, officially making it the highest scoring regular season game the A’s have played in Vegas. The Brewers drove in two in the seventh on Jake Bauers’ 12th home run of the year, one in the eighth on a wild pitch, and two in the ninth on Andrew Vaughn’s ninth double of the season.
The A’s were held scoreless in the home ninth and the Brewers kept the scoring going in the 10th, taking a 14-10 lead on a Jackson Chourio sac-fly and William Contreras three-run homer to deaden the Las Vegas crowd.
With two out in the home 10th the green and gold brought three across, including Nick Kurtz’ second homer of the night, to make it a one-run game. Still down to their final out, pinch-hitter Jonah Heim fisted a ball out to right field that received a groan from the home crowd thinking the night was over. Brewers’ right fielder Blake Perkins ran out of room at the wall and the game was tied yet again.
The most dominant inning on the mound came in the top of the 11th as left-hander Jose Suarez took the rubber for the A’s and struck out the side in order giving the A’s a chance to win it the next half.
Flame-throwing Abner Uribe shut down the A’s in the home half, sending the game to the 12th inning where defensive replacement Jeff McNeil’s throw couldn’t beat Christian Yelich to the plate. Milwaukee had another extra inning lead and this time they were able to hold on. Right-hander Chad Patrick got the save for the Brewers’ fourth consecutive win in an absolute offensive thriller to open up the Las Vegas Series.
A combined 29 runs on 34 hits set the record for most combined hits and runs in a game this season. Each club used seven pitchers across 12 innings in the longest game of the pitch-clock era at four hours and 14 minutes which also set the record for most ABS challenges in a single game at 16 total. Fans got just about everything they could’ve asked for in game one of the Las Vegas series, except an A’s win. However, this will go down as one of the most absurd, memorable games of the 2026 season that gave fans in Southern Nevada plenty of reason to return to the ballpark the rest of the week.
Game two in Las Vegas is set for 7:05pm Tuesday night.
Starting pitchers for Milwaukee LHP Robert Gasser (0-2 ERA 4.73) for Las Vegas RHP JT Ginn (3-3 ERA 2.74)
Oakland Ballers battled the Red Pocket Mobiles (Oakland Ballers X ;photo)
Jun 1st through 8th coverage
By Lewis Rubman
OAKLAND–There was reason to feel that the Ballers, having swept a six game series at home against the hapless RedPocket Mobiles were on a roll as they left for a 12 game tour of the North (previously known as the Mountain) Division of the Pioneer Baseball League. Those half a dozen wins had evened the defending circuit’s defending champs’ season record at 6-6.
They were on a roll, all right, but it was downhill, at least for their three encounters with the Glacier Range Riders, who play in the beautiful Glacier Bank Park in Kalispell, MT, just outside of Whitefish, which is, if it hasn’t changed since I was there some 30 years ago, a one horse town version of Las Vegas without the glitz, notable for its bars and gambling parlors.
After the Ballers put Kalispell in their rear view mirror, they had begun to experience a modicum of success. But when the team left Grand Rapids and headed for Missoula following yesterday’s frustrating defeat, the Miles Militia was ninth in the 12 team PBL’s standings. Only the 1-7 RedPocket Mobiles trailed them in the six team South Division.
The road weary Ballers and manager Aaron Miles would have quite some time and distance toto go before they can sleep easy. Avenging the 2-1 series defeat Missoula’s Paddleheads handed them in the opening series at Riamondi will be a tough order to fill. Remember that the Ballers won the 2026 league title by beating the PaddleHeads in the final three games, played in Oakland, after Mousoula had won the two games played on their home turf.
I don’t know which was more dispiriting, the first two mismatches, in which the Oaklanders were clobbered from start to finish or the final encounter of the series, when, after two thrilling comebacks, the B’s went into the bottom of the ninth with a four run advantage, only to blow the lead when T.J. McKenzie dropped Tommy Rover’s two out fly in deep center field, and then lose the knockout round on a last second home run by the Glaciers Jake Millan in the first round.
The ugly line scores of the Tuesday and Wednesday games give you all you need to know about the poor accounting the Ballers gave of themselves. On Tuesday, the rough Range Riders rode over the Ballers in the first frame, plating six earned runs against Joel Tornero, who gave up six walks to the eight Glacier batters he faced and hitting another. His replacement, Michael Riley, staved off the hosts for four innings, but the damage had been done and was irreparable.
R H E
Oakland Ballers (6-7) 100 001 000 2 8 0
Glacier Range Riders (10-3) 600 002 00x 8 4 0
Winning pitcher: Evan Langston (2-0) Losing pitcher Joel Tornero (0-1)
Time: 2:37 Attendance: 1,516
Wednesday’s line score reads like the summary of a horror story.
R H E
Oakland Ballers (6-8) 001 000 000 1 6 1
Glacier Range Riders (11-3) 500 070 01x 13 11 0
Winning pitcher: Jared Engman (1-0) Losing pitcher: Derek Murphy (0-2)
Time: 2:50 Attendance: 1,553
The Thursday game merits a bit more detail., but before I comment on it, I’d like to say a few parenthetical words on the knockout round, a rule the Pioneer League uses to decide what used to be extra inning contests. The procedure, on which the PBL prides itself, is a home run derby. Lots of fans enjoy watching batting practice; many arrive early to watch it, some in hopes of snagging a ball; others, as amateur scouts.
MLB’s All Star Week home run derby is a fan favorite, but neither batting practice nor the home run derby decides the outcome of a game. Who wants to watch nine innings of tight, exciting baseball only to hang around for what boils down to post game BP to determine the winner? The only answer I can think of is gamblers. I don’t think it’s entirely coincidental that MLB is thinking of installing the Knock Out Round (the Pioneer League’s name for this crap shoot) to settle ties in the all star games and that Las Vegas will be the new home of the now floundering Nomad Athletics.
The line score and all the action it summarizes are what go into the cumulative team and individual statistics. Only the deciding action is omitted. The derby information is recorded under its own label, available on the league’s website.
Here’s the line score of the Baller’s near miss in Kalispell:
R H E
Oakland Ballers (6-9) 000 120 010 10 11 1
Glacier Range Riders (11-3) 300 003 004 10 13 0
Time: 3:20 Attendance: 1,851. No winning or losing pitcher. Glacier won in KO round. Oakland: Cobb 3 HR. Glacier: Millan, 4 HR
After a four hour bus ride to Grand Falls, which got them there at around noon on Friday, the fifth, the B’s lost no time in jumping to a 13-4 lead after 4-1/2 innings. You’d think a lead like that would be enough to end the Ballers’ frustrations. But that would be true only if you didn’t understand one basic fact about the Pioneer League: no lead is safe. Ever. That’s part of what makes the league fun. It’s also a reason why it can be exasperating.
Grand Rapids countered Oakland’s midgame dominating nine run advantage, with a little help from the blew (I mean “blue”) crew, a run in the bottom of the fifth and continuing to score in each of the remaining four frames. A trio of Voyager pitchers held the B’s scoreless the rest of the way. Catcher Nick Poss’s performance was a painful highlight for the Oaklanders, not just because of his three run homer in the third, but alsofor the pluck he displayed by remaining in the game in spite of injuries to one of his feet, his groin, and another to, I believe, his hamstring.I’ll add as an aside that Poss was a part of Aaron Miles’ managerial legerdemain in the previous night’s game, when the Ballers’ skipper juggled the PBL’s rules on designated pinch hitters and the designated hitter rule to call on pitcher Matt Lozovoy to pinch hit in the top of the ninth, when the B’s still held seemingly secure four run lead. I’m not being sarcastic; it was a smart move at the time.
Oakland Ballers (6-10) 125 230 000 13 20 1
Great Falls Voyagers (12-4) 040 012 214 14 17 0
As I’ve often mentioned recently, the purpose of the Pioneer League’s partnership with Major League Baseball is to provide players for the big league organizations. Tyler Davis, who started five games and pitched one in relief for the 2024 Ballers, ended that season with a record of 0-0-1, 1.29. He’s already made The Show. He was 2-2-1, 3. as a reliever for the Chicago White Sox, but after losing yesterday, Sunday the 7th, to the Phillies, his record stood at 2-3-1, 4.43. Before the start of Saturday’s game in Great Falls, the B’s announced the bittersweet news that the Pale Hose had purchased Gabe Tanner’s contract. As I write this, I haven’t had any news about to which team the Cal State East Bay graduate been assigned.
On the field Saturday, the news was that, even though the Boys from West Oakland blew a 12-6 lead in the bottom of the eighth, they recovered, scored a couple of runs in the top of the ninth, and held on to defeat the Voyagers, 14-12. It’s much more pleasant to record the line score of this contest than it’s been at any other time since the start of the Ballers’ current foray into Montana.
R H E
Oakland Ballers (7-10) 101 402 402 14 17 13
Great Falls Voyagers (5-12) 002 201 160 12 12 1
Winning pitcher: Valek Cisneros (1-0) Losing pitcher: Kevin Worek (0-1) Save: Matthew Maloney (1)
Time: 3:45 Attendance: 1,037
The game, played under steadily increasing rain, broke Oakland’s four game losing streak and gave them any opportunity to win their first road series of the nascent season. But they once more snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory.
In any case, it would have been an extremely difficult victory. The Ballers’ punishing schedule since leaving their home grounds was made worse by a planned game time of 11:35, which then was pushed back to 2:30. They, as the famed radio announcer Dizzy Dean put it, “shoulda stood in bed.” The situation echoed Chico Marx’s lines in Duck Soup, “It rained all day. There was no ball game, so we stayed home. We listen to it over the radio.”
The line score also resembled an earlier artifact, a table from a clinical study of bipolar disorder.
R H E
Oakland Ballers (7-11) 320 013 304 16 10 1
Great Falls Voyagers (6-12) 019 020 24X 18 18 1
Winning pitcher: Emir Sepúlveda (2-0) Losing pitcher:Jake Tirk (0-2)
Time:3:10 Attendance: 644
This tear your hair and chew your nails display the fickle middle finger of not only began with an echo of the Minnie Marx’s sons, it ended with one.
With two down in the top of the ninth, Jaden Collura worked a walk that brought Noah Blythe to plate, representing the potential tying run. He lifted a fly that reached the center field wall, where it landed in the glove of Anthony Manisero, whose family name means peanut vendor. Groucho sings and whistles the song of that name throughout Duck Soup. You also might get a kick out of video of its original presentation at New York’s Roxy Theater: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2UU33oJY5g.
I haven’t been able to find the season statistics for all the players on the Baller roster, but what follows are the stats for those who participated in yesterday’s tragicomedy:
So, where does this leave us as they Ballers try to get some sleep and redemption and we try to get our bearings as the upcoming six games in Missoula? You tell me.
Washington Nationals shortstop CJ Abrams (right) steals second base as San Francisco Giants shortstop Willy Adames leaps to field the ball in the top of the ninth inning at Oracle Park in San Francisco on Mon Jun 8, 2026 (AP News photo)
Monday, June 8, 2026
Oracle Park
San Francisco, California
Washington Nationals 4 (34-33)
San Francisco Giants 2 (27-40)
Win: Clayton Beeter (2-1)
Loss: Keaton Winn (2-2)
Save: Gus Varland (5)
Time: 2:31
Attendance: 35,432
By Stephen Ruderman
A great start by Logan Webb was wasted, and for the sixth time this season, the Giants led in the ninth inning only to lose, as the Nationals tagged Keaton Winn for three runs in the top of the ninth en route to a 4-3 win Monday night.
The Giants looked to build on their momentum after winning four of their final five on their roadtrip, which ended with a nice series win in Chicago.
Logan Webb was lights out, and Tony Vitello let him go eight innings. Webb gave up just a run on five hits. He didn’t walk anyone, and he struck out seven. Webb has been nails in his last two starts, and it really does appear that his right knee bursitis was the main cause of his rough start to the season.
The Giants wasted a big opportunity off Nationals’ opener Richard Lovelady in the bottom of the first, and the offense was stymied for most of the night. However, after the Nationals got on the board against Webb in the top of the sixth, the Giants responded with a run of their own in the bottom of the sixth.
The Giants then played the way they were built to in the bottom of the eighth. Jung Hoo Lee led off the inning with a base-hit, and got to second on an errant pickoff throw by Clayton Beeter. Bryce Eldridge then doubled to give the Giants the lead.
With runners at second and third with two outs, Tony sent Jonah Cox to the plate, and put on the squeeze. Cox laid down a perfect bunt along the first base line, and Eldridge scored to make it 3-1. Eldridge and Cox shared an emotional hug in the dugout, and it really felt like this was going to be the Giants’ night.
Well, as good of a season as Keaton Winn has had, he has not been particularly great in the ninth. Winn blew the save in Denver on May 29, and then gave up the game-tying home run to Pete Crow-Armstrong at Wrigley on Saturday.
The Nationals got to Winn for three runs. Dylan Smith, who got the save Sunday night, then finished the inning.
The Giants had one more wasted opportunity in them for the bottom of the ninth. Rafael Devers worked a 1-2 count into a walk against Gus Varland to start the inning, but Luis Arraez suffered a rare strikeout. Willy Adames tried to hit a walk-off home run, but flew out to center. Lee just had to tease us with a base-hit to right to put runners at the corners for Eldridge. Eldridge struck out, and that was all she wrote.
There were some positives in this game. Logan Webb seems to be back, as he has given up just one run and six hits in his last two starts. Remember his last start came against the best and peskiest offenses in the Brewers in Milwaukee on Wednesday.
Jung Hoo Lee not only extended his hitting streak to 16 games, but he went 4-for-5 to up his average to .333. Matt Chapman went 2-for-3, and is swinging the bat like his old self again. I also can’t forget Bryce Eldridge’s 2-for-5 night. It would have been 3-for-5 had it not been for a great catch by Dylan Crews in the bottom of the fourth.
Unfortunately, the bullpen once again blew a late lead. As I said in the lead, the Giants have now lost six games this season in which they led in the ninth inning.
I also can’t leave out the missed challenge two strikes to James Wood and two outs in the top of the sixth. Had the pitch been challenged, it would have been strike three to end the inning. However, Eric Haase was loath to challenge after the Giants lost a challenge in the bottom of the first. Well, Wood ended up scoring, and that proved to be the difference in the game.
The Giants are now 27-40. Going back to the Giants’ six losses after leading in the ninth, there is a massive difference between 33-34 and 27-40. Buster Posey’s failure to sign relief help has haunted the Giants yet again. Unfortunately, this will likely not be the final time this happens.
If anyone is interested, Clayton Beeter got the win, and Keaton Winn took his second loss in three games. Gus Varland picked up the save.
Adrian Houser (2-5 ERA 5.49) for San Francisco will go against Andrew Alvarez (1-0 ERA 3.54) for Washington Tuesday night. First pitch will be at 7:15 p.m.
San Antonio Spurs Victory Wembanyama (1) throws down on the New York Knicks Karl Anthony Towns (32) in game 3 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden in New York on Mon Jun 8, 2026 (AP News photo)
NBA Finals podcast Michael Roberson:
#1 What were the biggest adjustments the Spurs made in Game 3 that allowed them to avoid falling into a 0-3 series deficit?
#2 Which individual matchup had the greatest impact on the outcome of the game, and why?
#3 How did the Knicks’ performance in the second half differ from their play in the first two games of the series?
#4 What strategic changes should New York consider before Game 4 to regain control of the NBA Finals?
#5 After Game 3, does the momentum of the series shift toward San Antonio, or do the Knicks still hold a clear advantage despite the loss?
Univision anchor Tony Lopez (left), Considered the greatest futbol player of all time Pele’ (center), and the author and Univision anchor Amaury Pi Gonzalez (right) (photo from Amaury Pi Gonzalez)
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The World Cup – World’s Greatest Sporting Event From My Notebook
By Amaury Pi-González
The 2026 World Cup in the United States begins this Thursday, June 11, and runs through the final on July 19. This is the largest tournament in FIFA history, with 48 teams across 16 host cities in the US, Canada, and México. I covered the historic first time the FIFA World Cup came to the United States of America. In my opinion, the ’94 US World Cup was crucial in raising interest among Americans in soccer/Fútbol.
It was the introduction to most Americans about why this sport is so popular worldwide. An education, including for me, since I come from a Caribbean country where baseball is the top sport, not fútbol. Cuba qualified only once for a World Cup, in 1938, which took place in France.
The First FIFA World Cup hosted by the United States was in 1994; Brazil won it, defeating Italy 3-2 in a penalty shootout. It was played at nine major stadiums in the United States, including Stanford here in the Bay Area. It was truly a spectacle, covering these athletes from all over the world.
The games I covered were at Stanford: Brazil 2, Russia 0. Brazil 3, Cameroon 0, Colombia 2, Switzerland 0; and Russia 6, Cameroon 1. The World Champion Brazil team stayed at the Villa Feliz Lodge in Los Altos, about 10 miles from downtown San José, where I also covered the celebration after they won the Cup.
Great players like Romario, Bebeto, and the great coach Bora Milutinovic were all gracious and joyful about the event. The matches for Brazil were held at Stanford Stadium, about 20 miles from San José. Telemundo CH 48, the main Bay Area station, is also located in San Jose.
I had the most fun I have ever had at this sporting event. Numerous people I met inside and outside the media from different countries and nationalities, all focused on their countries and fútbol; there is nothing really like it. At the time Telemundo was a smaller network, today it is part of NBC Universal.
However, we did have all the ‘state-of-the-art’ equipment necessary for a worldwide event. My good friend and producer Mauricio Quijano, who is Colombian and also speaks Portuguese, Spanish, and English, introduced me to the staff of the famous Globo TV of Brazil.
We went inside their remote truck, an incredible operation, because for Brazil their Fúbol is more like…well, a religion, not only a sport. Highlights of the many ‘Live Shots’ for news in the afternoon, late night with packages and interviews, plus the games highlights coverage, interviews with players and fans from all over the world, plus the pre and post games, were when FIFA brought to this World Cup the one and only Edson Arantes Do Nascimento, better known around the world as Pelé.
He was wearing a very sharp blazer with a Mastercard monogram, his sponsor as the official Worldwide Ambassador of Fútbol. My good friend Tony López, Sports Anchor for Univisión, and I, similar for Telemundo, each conducted an exclusive interview (one-on-one) with Pelé, who spoke Portuguese, English, and Spanish fluently. I remember (who passed in 2022) told me, “In 20 years, Fútbol will be a very popular sport in the United States,” and he was right.
Tony López and I always reminisce about those years, days when non-Hispanics would call our stations to ask about the scores of the Latin American and European Fútbol Leagues, which were NEVER GIVEN by the regular local ABC, CBS, and NBC in the United States, but we would always include them in our sports segments. Pelé was for Fútbol what Muhammad Ali was for boxing. A world personality that transcends sports, in many countries, even more famous than the Kings, Queens, or even Presidents.
San Francisco Giants Rafeal Devers (right) scores on a Jung Hoo Lee single in the top of the first inning as the Chicago Cubs catcher Carson Kelly (left) looks on at Wrigley Field in Chicago on Sun Jun 7, 2026 (AP News photo)
San Francisco Giants podcast Marko Ukalovic:
#1 How important was the pitching matchup between the San Francisco Giants Trevor McDonald and the Chicago Cubs Jameson Taillon in determining the outcome of the game?
#2 After splitting the first two games of the series, which team had more momentum entering the Sunday night rubber match at Wrigley Field?
#3 Which player was most likely to provide the game’s biggest offensive impact, and why?
#4 Consider recent performances from players such as the Giants Matt Chapman or the Cubs Pete Crow-Armstrong. How did playing on national television as part of Sunday Night Baseball affect the atmosphere and pressure for both teams?
#5 Giants open a three game series against the Washington Nationals Monday night at Oracle Park. Nats have been getting some good offense but struggling a bit on the pitching how do you see this series.
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