Robbie Ray’s expiring contract makes him a clear trade option for the wayward San Francisco Giants at the trade deadline. For a majority of the season’s first two months, Ray wasn’t pitching like a ...

The Chronicle 2026 All-Metro softball players of the year for each metro region, as selected by preps beat reporter Mitch Stephens. The junior backed up a brilliant sophomore season with an even more ...

Before his first at-bat for the St. Ignatius baseball team, Archer Horn already had a scholarship offer from Stanford in hand. There was no rest for the “game changer,” said St. Ignatius coach Brian ...

It was well after practice six years ago. Livermore softball coach Andrew Paulazzo drove down Murdell Lane when he spotted a family of three at a local diamond. The dad, Ed, was hitting grounders to ...

The Chronicle 2026 All-Metro baseball players of the year for each metro region, as selected by preps beat reporter Mitch Stephens. The junior pitcher and third baseman, who has committed to Santa ...

P Malliah Foster, Marin Catholic, So.: MCAL POY was 16-1 with a 1.39 ERA and 199 Ks in 136 IP P Kyleigh Mace, Mitty, Sr.: BYU signee was 21-2 with 0.83 ERA, 237 Ks in 151⅔ IP ...

A young sea lion that chased a delicious meal up the Petaluma River, prompting calls to wildlife experts from worried onlookers, appears to have slipped back home unharmed. That seemed to be the happy ...

The Asian American Journalists Association’s national conference is coming to San Francisco in 2027 for the first time in a dozen years. The event brings together staff from major media organizations ...

If a fight breaks out in a baseball clubhouse, outsiders don’t need to know about it. That’s the players’ private sanctuary, and confrontations happen more often than one might think. If two people ...

When Montrail Brackens was finally allowed outside, guards at San Francisco County Jail No. 3 led him and several other inmates into small enclosures that reminded Brackens of dog kennels. It was late ...

The wife of former San Francisco Giants outfielder Gorkys Hernández was killed in the twin earthquakes that devastated northern Venezuela. Deisy Tovar de Hernández was staying at a luxury hotel in the ...

The dish I look forward to most every summer is a BLT sandwich. There are only a few months out of the year when tomatoes are at their peak — meaning they’re ready to pair with bacon. (If you’ve ever ...