The San Francisco Giants kick off the 2024 season this afternoon with game one of this four-game opening series against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park. Getting the Opening Day start for the Giants will be right-hander Logan Webb. Webb finished second in the 2023 Cy Young Award voting, ending the season with a 3.25 ERA, 3.16 FIP, with 194 strikeouts to 31 walks in a league-leading 216 innings pitched. He’ll be facing off against Padres right-hander Yu Darvish, who ended his 2023 season for...
Chicago Cubs second baseman Matt Shaw tries to grab a baseball barehanded on an infield single hit by San Francisco Giants' LaMonte Wade Jr. during the fourth inning of a
A penitent walks on her knees in the Nazarene of Saint Paul Holy Week procession, outside the Basilica of St. Teresa, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariana
When the rapper was at his musical peak, 50 Cent often wore a Yankees cap. The Queens native also known as Curtis Jackson has been spotted in an Astros cap more often since he moved to Houston in 2021. He'll have the chance to rub his new fandom right in the face of Yankees fans when he calls "Play Ball!" before Thursday's opening day game at Minute Maid Park. Before the rapper handles the ceremonial duty of exciting the crowd, retired Astros star Michael Brantley will throw out the first pitch...
It didn't take long for Michael Brantley to return to Minute Maid Park. The former Houston Astros fan favorite—who made a pair of All-Star Game appearances during his time with the team, while serving as a behind-the-scenes leader for the franchise's 2022 World Series title run—will throw out the ceremonial first pitch as part of Thursday's Opening Day festivities. Brantley will be joined in the pregame festivities by multi-platinum rapper and Houston resident 50 Cent, who is handling the "Play...
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The Calgary Flames enter the matchup with the St. Louis Blues as losers of
A tiger cub who was rescued from an illegal private owner and brought to the Oakland Zoo suffering from multiple fractures has recuperated to the point of being cleared for release to a big-cat sanctuary, officials said. “She is mobile, she’s strong, she’s playful, and we’re all optimistic for her recovery,” said Dr. Alex Herman, vice president of veterinary services at the Oakland Zoo. When the 8-month-old animal was brought in Feb. 20, by Oakland Zoo officials, acting as agents of the...
Thousands of Pacific Gas & Electric Co. customers were without power Tuesday morning, according to electricity-outage maps. Nearly 8,000 San Francisco customers were without electricity as of 7:56 a.m., according to the Chronicle’s outage map. The outages appeared to be concentrated in San Francisco’s Presidio, in the northern portion of the city. About 400 Sausalito customers were also without power Monday evening into Tuesday, the map showed. It was not immediately clear what caused the...
Rochester City School District Superintendent Carmine Peluso is leaving the
If you listened to last night’s Twitter space then a lot of this will be repetitive. If you didn’t, that’s fine, I still love you. Here’s the state of the Louisville basketball coaching search as I know it to be at 11 a.m. on Tuesday: After talking to folks close to both Josh Schertz and the U of L search Monday night, I believe the job is Schertz’s if he wants it. Two things here: 1) Schertz is still coaching Indiana State. The Sycamores are hosting Cincinnati tonight at 9 in the NIT...