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SF Giants shut out by Mariners ace to lose fourth straight game

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July 4, 2023

SF Giants shut out by Mariners ace to lose fourth straight game

SAN FRANCISCO — Not even the fireworks could wake up the San Francisco Giants offense this week.

The Giants were blanked by Seattle Mariners ace Logan Gilbert on Tuesday afternoon, when the M’s stomped all over the Giants in a 6-0 win in front of 37,395 for an Independence Day celebration at Oracle Park.

It marked the fourth straight loss for the skidding Giants. Since their 10-game winning streak was snapped on June 22, they’re 4-8 with a 5.11 ERA while getting outscored 62-37 during that span.

“We’re playing hard, things just aren’t going our way,” said third baseman J.D. Davis. “We were on a roll and the last week to eight days it’s been hit and miss. It’s bound to happen.”

They were hoping to see more greatness from Keaton Winn, the 25-year-old rookie right-hander who was making his second career big league start. His first was a beauty: six innings of two-run ball against a tough Toronto Blue Jays lineup. His splitter was electric.

Tuesday, Winn’s signature pitch must’ve looked like a beach ball to the Mariners hitters, who repetitively made loud contact as they knocked him around in four innings of work.

Winn magically avoided serious damage, allowing just three runs on six hits and two walks, but the concern is that his splitter was too often left over the middle of the plate and he struggled to put away hitters.

“Just didn’t have the location today,” Winn said. “It’s a little bit mechanical and just trying to nitpick with it, trying to catch an edge rather than throwing it in the zone and letting it be a strike-to-ball out of the zone.”

A former fifth-round pick in 2018, Winn barely had time to develop with the cancellation of the minor league season in 2020 and Tommy John surgery that kept him out all of 2021. He returned in 2022 throwing harder, with a 96 mph average fastball, and with a newly-developed splitter. Baseball America ranks him as the Giants’ 13th-best prospect.

“Guys up here definitely make you pay for your misses and mistakes,” Winn said. “They’re not invincible, in the same sense. If you execute early and execute pitches where you need to, everyone is vulnerable.”

The Mariners scored one run each in the first, second and third innings. Mike Ford took Winn deep in the third when he threw a flat four-seamer that the onetime Giant roped over the right-field fence.

Ford, who played one game with the Giants last year before they traded him to the Mariners, went 4-for-5 with a home run and two doubles Tuesday to push his OPS to .942 in 25 games with the M’s this season.

Sean Manaea (two innings, one run) and Jacob Junis (three innings, two runs) worked in relief for the Giants.

Offensively, the Giants looked mostly lifeless. Gilbert never walked anybody in a complete-game shutout in which he allowed just five hits, four of them singles. He struck out seven and needed just 105 pitches to do it. The game lasted just 2 hours, 20 minutes.

“Because he’s so tall, analytically, he has a really good extension when he gets out in front, the highest in all of baseball,” Davis said. “It gives hitters less time to react. Everything plays more up.”

The lone bright spot for the Giants was catcher Patrick Bailey throwing out a base-stealer at second base. The rookie catcher has now thrown out 12 runners in 31 opportunities (38%), fourth-best in the majors.

Alex Cobb takes the mound for the Giants in the series finale against the Mariners on Wednesday.

“The season is a seesaw but we’re still confident in each other,” Davis said. “We’re just going through a little sluggish period right now. A lot of bad travel. Hopefully we can pick up on our sleep schedule, catch up on our off-day Thursday and get things rolling.”

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SFO experiences little disruption on one of busiest travel days

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December 23, 2024

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SFO experiences little disruption on one of busiest travel days – CBS San Francisco

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Most flights were on time at SFO as travelers head out for the holidays.

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Dolphins keep playoff hopes alive with 29-17 win over 49ers, who were eliminated Sunday afternoon

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December 22, 2024

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Dolphins keep playoff hopes alive with 29-17 win over 49ers, who were eliminated Sunday afternoon

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — – Tua Tagovailoa threw for 215 yards and a touchdown, Jason Sanders nailed five field goals, and the Miami Dolphins kept their playoff chances alive by beating the San Francisco 49ers 29-17 on Sunday.

The 49ers were eliminated from the playoffs before the game because of wins by the Los Angeles Rams and Washington Commanders earlier Sunday. The loss ensured that last year’s NFC champions will have a losing season for the first time since 2020.

The Dolphins (7-8) helped their chances of making the playoffs for a third straight season, but will need to win their final two games and get help from losses by the Broncos, Chargers and Colts for that to happen.

Trailing by nine early in the fourth, San Francisco quarterback Brock Purdy found tight end Eric Saubert for a 2-yard score that cut the lead to 19-17, but the Niners couldn’t get past self-inflicted wounds.

After punting the ball back to Miami with 6:45 left, San Francisco was hit with consecutive penalties for illegal substitution, unnecessary roughness and offsides to give Miami 25 yards, helping set up Sanders’ 48-yard field goal that stretched the Dolphins’ lead to five.

The 49ers were penalized 11 times for 90 yards.

Cornerback Kader Kohou then intercepted Purdy on the next drive, after the quarterback was pressured by defensive tackle Calais Campbell. Dolphins running back De’Von Achane sealed it with a 50-yard touchdown run.

Tagovailoa finished 22 of 34. Purdy was 26 of 40 for 313 yards and two touchdowns.

Tyreek Hill’s inconsistent season continued. He caught just 3 of 7 targets for 29 yards and a touchdown, with drops on the first two drives of the game and another on a potential touchdown in the third.

Jonnu Smith caught six passes for 62 yards to set the Dolphins’ single-season franchise record for receptions (76) and receiving yards (802) by a tight end.

Sanders was 5 of 5, including a 54-yarder, which made him 11 of 13 on field goals of 50-plus yards this year. San Francisco’s Jake Moody missed a 41-yarder in the third.

Deebo Samuel caught his first touchdown since Week 6 on a 16-yard score in which he muscled through several defenders on his way into the end zone.

Miami moved into 49ers territory three times in the first half but settled for field goals before Hill’s 3-yard touchdown catch from Tagovailoa that put the Dolphins ahead with 3:20 left in the second.

Purdy then drove San Francisco 67 yards down the field to set up Moody’s 21-yard field goal to cut Miami’s lead to 13-10 at halftime.

Injuries

49ers: LB Dre Greenlaw (right calf), LG Aaron banks (knee) and LT Jaylon Moore (quad) left with injuries. … DE Leonard Floyd played through a shoulder injury suffered in the first quarter.

Dolphins: WR Jaylen Waddle did not play because of a knee injury suffered last week. … CB Kendall Fuller (knee) and LB Jordyn Brookes (quad/knee) left in the second half.

Up next

49ers: Host Detroit on Monday Dec. 30.

Dolphins: At Cleveland next Sunday.

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SF is the only city where it's cheaper to buy a home now than in 2019

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December 22, 2024

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SF is the only city where it's cheaper to buy a home now than in 2019

San Francisco is the only major U.S. city where it’s cheaper to buy a home now than it was five years ago, according to data from real estate listing site Zillow.

Of the 100 largest U.S. cities by population, San Francisco is the single example that saw home values fall between November 2019 and November 2024, based on what the company calls the “Zillow price index.”

The city saw the typical home price decline by 3.7% during that period. All other cities saw prices increase. Across the Bay, Oakland had the smallest increase, with the average home value rising 2.1%. Among other major U.S. cities, prices rose 37.58% in Los Angeles; 38.34% in Austin, and 69.26% in Miami.

Cheaper is one thing. But cheap? That’s a different story.

According to Zillow, the typical home value in San Francisco in November 2024 was $1.26 million, versus $1.31 million five years ago. In 2019, San Francisco had by far the highest typical home price across all major cities, coming in more than 30% over second-place San Jose.

In 2024, San Francisco was one of four cities, all in California, with typical home prices over $1 million.

Kara Ng, a senior economist at Zillow, said San Francisco was an outlier in the first place.

“Five years ago, San Francisco was far and away the most expensive city to buy a home in the U.S.,” Ng said, adding that the pandemic fueled the ability for a highly paid but price-constrained workforce to flock to more affordable areas.

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