Sacramento might be a hitters’ haven for A’s after explosive first home series
After the Sacramento Athletics’ first home series at Sutter Health Park, a minor-league stadium, there’s a broad consensus: Brent Rooker might hit 30 homers in the team’s home games alone. Scouts said ...
Giants’ Lou Trivino pitches 1-2-3 inning in first MLB game since 2022: ‘You don’t realize how much it means’
Lou Trivino hadn’t pitched in a big-league game in so long, he joked Saturday, that he got lost on the way to the mound. “I ...
John Fisher embraces A’s short-term future in Sacramento, ‘a great sports town’
Two hours before his team took the field for the first-ever MLB game in California’s capital, Sacramento Athletics owner John ...
Giants’ healthy Jordan Hicks heads to Houston to make his hometown debut
Jordan Hicks has pitched in 29 major league stadiums — as well as in regular-season big league games in London and Mexico — ...
Are Sacramento fans ready to embrace the A’s? ‘I hope they stay here’
For the most part, the fans at Sutter Health Park for the first two nights of big league baseball in Sacramento this week were A’s fans who live in the area or elsewhere in the Central Valley and are ...
As A’s debut in Sacramento, players’ thoughts are with the fans: ‘You feel for them’
Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner, proud Oakland native and an avid A’s fan right up until Chicago drafted him, was in the lineup for the first-ever major-league game in Sacramento. “I’d rather be ...
Giants’ new ace ready to deal, ‘looks like vintage Justin Verlander’
Usually, Justin Verlander is on the mound for Opening Day, but this time around, the future Hall of Famer got to soak in the festivities rather than trying to keep focused and stay warm in the San ...
Can Giants’ Heliot Ramos parlay patience at the plate into permanence in left?
For all of the big splash he made in 2024, including an actual Splash and an All-Star selection, Heliot Ramos is still in the infancy of his big-league baseball career. He demonstrated that he’s ...
Jung Hoo Lee returns; Giants’ Opening Day roster begins to come into focus
Jung Hoo Lee was back in the San Francisco Giants’ lineup Sunday in the team’s exhibition game against their Triple-A ...
The A's opener in Sacramento was an absolute disaster
The A's played their first game in Sacramento on Monday night, and the 18-3 blowout loss was barely a footnote in the ...
Giants emphasize execution trying to score runs any which way they can
More often than not, last year’s mediocre season hinged around one simple, basic thing. The San Francisco Giants didn’t score enough runs. When they did, they were very good: The Giants’ record in ...
Landen Roupp’s ‘ornery’ streak even in rough times stands out on Giants
At this point last spring, Landen Roupp was doing exactly what he is this time around, pitching up a storm and making a strong case for an Opening Day roster spot with the San Francisco Giants. But ...