The Mercury News

WASHINGTON — Serving in the same platoon role as he has for the past two seasons, Austin Slater simply hasn’t gotten many opportunities as the Giants faced a stretch of seven straight right-handed starters to begin this road trip. The platoon role took…

SAN JOSE, Calif. – The San Jose Sharks allowed a go-ahead power-play goal to Robert Thomas early in the second period and couldn’t find the equalizer in what became a 3-1 loss to the St. Louis Blues on Thursday. With the Sharks trying to kill a holding…

An unprecedented flow of riches is concentrating wealth among Silicon Valley companies that capitalized on the world’s locked-down lives amid the pandemic, raising fears that a dramatically lopsided recovery will warp the economic future for the Bay Ar…

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Bay Area music fans have long wondered and debated over when local favorites Green Day was finally going to headline at Outside Lands, the annual three-day music festival at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. And now we have our answe…

SAN FRANCISCO — Jordan Poole playfully skipped down the court after his 28-foot 3-pointer in the third quarter extended the Warriors’ lead to 14 and caused the Nuggets to call a timeout. Playoff Poole was activated. Poole and the Warriors didn’t disapp…

CLEVELAND — When Brandon Belt is in business, so are the San Francisco Giants. After playing in only three spring training games, how long it would take Belt to heat up once the season began was an open question heading into opening day. Look no furthe…

CLEVELAND — It was as if Carlos Rodón looked at his 12 strikeouts over five innings in his Giants debut and asked himself, How can I beat that? Rodón took a decidedly different tact Friday against the Guardians in his second outing of the season but wa…