Laurence Miedema

1 month ago | mercurynews.com | Laurence Miedema

Mark DeRosa, who was the third of the Giants’ record-tying 19 consecutive different Opening Day left fielders, will manage the United States for the second straight World Baseball Classic, USA Baseball said Thursday. DeRosa led the U.S. to the championship of the 2023 tournament, where it lost to Japan 3-2 as Shohei Ohtani struck out Mike Trout to end the game. The 20-nation tournament runs next year from March 5-17. DeRosa, 50, is a broadcaster for the MLB Network.

1 month ago | mercurynews.com | Laurence Miedema

Former Oakland A’s reliever Octavio Dotel was among the victims who died after the roof collapsed at a nightclub in the Dominican Republic early Tuesday morning, according to multiple reports. At least 44 people died and at least 160 were injured when the roof collapsed at the Jet Set nightclub in Dotel’s hometown of Santo Domingo, where a concert was taking place, according to authorities.

1 month ago | mercurynews.com | Laurence Miedema

“I don’t know how many times I’ve watched (Joaquin) Arias make that last play at third — and I still get nervous when he falls backwards,” Posey, now the Giants’ president of baseball operations, laughed on Opening Day last week in Cincinnati. San Francisco Giants pitcher Matt Cain, left, celebrates with catcher Buster Posey, center, and first baseman Brandon Belt after the final out of the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Houston Astros in San Francisco, Wednesday, June 13, 2012.

1 month ago | mercurynews.com | Laurence Miedema

Bay FC star Racheal Kundananji is among four women’s soccer players from Zambia who have been removed from the national team ahead of upcoming international matches due to added challenges entering the United States. The Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) announced on Wednesday that captain Barbra Banda, Prisca Chilufya, Grace Chanda and Kundananji, all of whom play for clubs in the US, won’t be traveling to China for the Yangchuan International Tournament.

1 month ago | mercurynews.com | Laurence Miedema

Harry Stavrenos had nothing to lose. In the spring of 1986, he was the 31-year-old general manager of a low-level minor league franchise that was failing on and off the field, and in all likelihood, playing its way out of San Jose. Then he assembled a hodgepodge collection of nobodies, oddballs and outlaws who also were down to their last strike. Almost overnight, the San Jose Bees became one of baseball’s most unlikely sensations.