Things are going from bad to worse for Blake Snell as the San Francisco Giants announced that they are placing him on the injured list with an abductor strain.

The two-time Cy Young winner has been off to a miserable start to his San Francisco career and now will have to spend some time away on the 15-day IL as he deals with the injury. For the corresponding move, the team is recalling Landen Roupp from the Sacramento River Cats.

The immediate fix, as Snell was slated to pitch against the New York Mets on Wednesday afternoon, will be a bullpen game. Ryan Walker will get the start in his place, as reported by the SF Chronicle’s Shayna Rubin.

Maybe some time away from the team will be good for the 31-year-old. He has an ERA of 11.57 through his first three outings. The lefty didn’t sign with the team until March 19 and didn’t spend any time in the minor leagues to get acclimated back into the groove of pitching.

Roupp, 25, made his major league debut earlier this season and has a 4.35 ERA so far. He was a 12th round draft selection by the Giants in the 2021 MLB draft and will now return to the show.

San Francisco is still squarely in the race for both their division and the wild card, but sitting at 12-13 they will need to find some success over the next couple of weeks without Snell. Just as important, they need him to comeback from his injury playing at a higher level than he has been.

No one doubts that he still has the talent to be a top pitcher in the league, he won the Cy Young just last season, he just needs to find that consistency again.

(OSV News) — parishioner was stabbed outside a historic San Francisco church April 21, where the city’s Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone was administering the sacrament of confirmation.

The San Francisco Police Department told OSV News that officers arrived just before 1 p.m. Sunday at Sts. Peter and Paul Church, where an adult male was found “suffering from an apparent stab wound.”

The victim was then taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, said police.

A 25-year-old suspect named Marko Asaulyuk was arrested and booked into San Francisco County Jail, charged with attempted murder and eight counts of assault with a deadly weapon, police told OSV News. Asaulyuk remains behind bars. Police did not provide information on a motive for the attack.

An April 22 post on X (formerly Twitter) by local crime reporter Henry K. Lee shows images of police taking into custody a handcuffed, blond-haired white male wearing a red jacket and long black shorts, whom Lee said was Asaulyuk.

Local media reported that the suspect, who was believed to be without a fixed residence, had entered the church — at which a large congregation was present — prior to the attack. Due to safety concerns, he was escorted outside.

Unnamed witnesses told local media the man then accosted an unidentified individual, saying, “Jesus is not real,” and shortly thereafter stabbed the victim, whose wife called emergency services. Several people detained the suspect until police arrived.

OSV News is awaiting a response to its request for comment from the Archdiocese of San Francisco and from the parish staff of Sts. Peter and Paul.

The parish traces its foundation to 1884, with its first church destroyed by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. The current church, known for its iconic twin spires, was completed in 1924. The parish is administered by the Salesians of St. John Bosco, who along with the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians serve the area’s young people, elders and Chinese communities, as well as a growing number of tourists and persons experiencing homelessness and poverty.

Gina Christian is a multimedia reporter for OSV News. Follow her on X (formerly Twitter) at @GinaJesseReina.

Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield’s 16-year-old child has been reported missing and is believed to be in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, according to police and local officials.

Mint Butterfield was reported missing by their mother, entrepreneur Caterina Fake, on Monday, Marin County Sheriff Sgt. Adam Schermerhorn confirmed to The Standard. They were last seen around 10 p.m. in Bolinas on Sunday and were reported missing the next morning.

Officials said the teen, who has a San Francisco address, has a history of substance abuse and is known to frequent the Tenderloin.

The Marin County Sheriff’s Office posted a flyer with Mint Butterfield’s picture to the social media platform Nextdoor on Tuesday. Supervisor Matt Dorsey reposted the flyer on X, saying Butterfield was now believed to be in or around the Tenderloin.