The names among the 2007 American League home run leaders read off like an All-Star team from the past five years — MVP winners Justin Morneau and Alex Rodriguez and perennial slugger David Ortiz are just some of the big-time players among this year’s top long-ball specialists.But there is one player near the top of the AL home run list who doesn’t quite register the same celebratory familiarity.That player would be Texas Rangers second baseman Ian Kinsler, who ranks second to A-Rod (nine), in the AL with seven home runs.
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Whether the perception is accurate or not, corporate lawyers aren’t traditionally seen as harbingers of good, seeking to defend the everyman from dishonesty.But that’s exactly how San Francisco attorney Reid Kathrein sees his role."I really like the David and Goliath thing," said Kathrein, who was recently named head of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP’s San Francisco office. "I grew up with that mentality, to help out the little guy against the big corporation. Every day now I wake up excited to go after our cases."
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Sacred Heart Cathedral may have lost out on this year’s Bruce-Mahoney Trophy to St. Ignatius during boys’ basketball season, but the Irish baseball team is still playing its crosstown rival for like there is plenty at stake.Sacred Heart starting pitcher Sonny Pearce pitched 6¹/³ strong innings and leadoff man Eric Herrera reached base five times and scored three runs to lead the Irish to a 13-6 victory over St. Ignatius in West Coast Athletic League play at Marchbank Park.
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Atlanta’s incredible 14-year reign atop the National League East ended last year with a thud, but at least one memorable development emerged from the disappointing season — the evolution of Brian McCann as one of the premier catchers in the NL.
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While opening their season playing home games at College of San Mateo and traveling all over the country to take on nationally ranked foes, the USF baseball team struggled to find the consistency that marked last year’s historically successful season.Still, despite all the distractions, the Dons remain in the hunt for a repeat trip to the postseason with an 18-17 record, including 2-4 in the ultra-competitive West Coast Conference, and they owe much of their success to one player — junior leadoff man Joey Railey, who has remained a constant in a season that has been anything but.
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Hitting one grand slam in a season is an accomplishment most softball players would be proud of.San Francisco State senior Kristin Bartholomay pulled off that impressive feat twice. In one game."The pitcher kept throwing my favorite pitch — an inside drop," Bartholomay said of the homers. "After the two grand slams, she stopped throwing that one."
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Hunt Auctions unveiled a portion of its memorabilia collection to members of the media Thursday at AT&T Park, as a preview of the historic Major League Baseball items that will be auctioned off July 10 as part of the FanFest at the Moscone Center during All-Star week.Among more than 200 collectibles that will be auctioned off is a signed Willie Mays Giants jersey from 1958, the first year the club played in San Francisco. That item is expected to fetch somewhere between $30,000 and $40,000.
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Of the four wins the USF baseball team had previously registered this season against Sacramento State, three have come directly after a Dons loss.Tuesday, the Hornets once again proved to be the cure for what ails USF. Getting a much-needed win before their weekend showdown with 10th-ranked Pepperdine, the Dons belted out 13 hits, had 21 players see action and dominated from the start in an 8-1 win over Sacramento State at Benedetti Diamond. The win capped off a five-game sweep of Sacramento State.
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As a pioneering female media executive, Oxygen Channel founder Gerry Laybourne has served as a voice for audiences others habitually neglected."A lot of these programming ideas that I’ve developed have come from simple outrage," Laybourne said. "I hate anybody that puts my audience in a box and assumes they are going to like one particular show or behave one specific way."
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After defeating its two previous opponents by a combined score of 37-2, the Galileo baseball team found itself in an unusual situation Thursday — trailing 2-1 in the top of the third inning against Leadership.That deficit, however, proved to be short-lived as Galileo poured in 16 runs over the final five innings to capture the Boilermaker Invitational 17-3 at Big Rec.Cody Klein went 3-for-3 with two RBIs and Chris Barber added two extra-base hits and five RBIs for Galileo, which won the tournament hosted by O’Connell for its eighth straight victory.
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When New York Mets leadoff man and shortstop Jose Reyes debuted in the majors in 2003 as a precocious 19-year-old and promptly finished the season with a .307 batting average, including a 17-game hitting streak, visions of the next Rickey Henderson were dancing throughout the minds in the Big Apple.However, it took the actual Rickey Henderson to make those revelations become a reality.
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When San Francisco resident and amateur wine lover Michael Brill decided to rip up his backyard in Potrero Hill in 2002 and turn it into a makeshift vineyard, he expected a little help from his friends with the project — but what he got was a community gathering of interested individuals.
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Every week throughout the regular season, the Examiner ranks all Major League Baseball teams. The Mets are on top this week with a lineup of heavy hitters that includes center fielder Carlos Beltran, who hit two home runs against the Cardinals on April 4, marking his 18th career multi-homer game.
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As a former creative director for advertising behemoth JWT Communications, Evan Peter made a name for himself as a leader in one of the industry’s most visible entities.But it was his time spent at several small startup agencies in the mid-1980s that proved to be his most valued experience — experience that ultimately led him to San Francisco-based advertising group Visual Resource, where he was recently named chief creative director.
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Heading into his scheduled start against Academic Athletic Association foe Balboa, Lowell senior pitcher Elan Lavie hadn’t exactly racked up a lot of time on the mound for the Cardinals.His exact number of innings pitched this season? One.Lavie matched that number and much, much more Thursday, pitching a complete-game five-hitter to lead Lowell to a 5-2 win over Balboa at Crocker Amazon, their second defeat of the Buccaneers in as many days.
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