We’ll see you tomorrow! Eddie Mathews’ grand slam off Dave Stewart in the 10th caps a Lefty Gomez-Jim Palmer pitchers duel and forces a Game 7. Henry Schulman talks to a worried NorCal manager Bruce Jenkins, and Jon Miller calls the highlights, including a homer and a defensive gem by Joe DiMaggio. | Follow the I-5 Series: sfchronicle.com/sports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Northern California had the bubbly on ice but the SoCals stay alive on a walk-off homer by Mark McGwire. Henry Schulman talks to NorCal manager Bruce Jenkins about his disastrous pitching moves and Jon Miller calls the highlights. | Follow the I-5 Series: sfchronicle.com/sports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A confident manager Bruce Jenkins joins Henry Schulman after his NorCal team takes a commanding 3-1 series lead. Mark McGwire homers twice for SoCal, but the North snarls back, tying it on Rickey Henderson's triple and taking the lead on Joe DiMaggio's sac fly. With two outs in the ninth, it's Dennis Eckersley vs. Ted Williams — who can't re-create Kirk Gibson's heroics. | Follow the I-5 Series: sfchronicle.com/sports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What a finish! Rollie Fingers strikes out Barry Bonds as the tying run in the ninth to preserve a 6-2 win for Southern California and keep Northern California from taking a 3-0 series lead. Henry Schulman and NorCal manager Bruce Jenkins run down the action and Jon Miller calls the highlights. | Follow the I-5 Series: sfchronicle.com/sports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tom Seaver fires a complete-game three-hitter and Barry Bonds homers twice for the second straight game as Northern California beats Walter Johnson and Southern California 5-2 to take a 2-0 lead in the APBA Baseball series pitting all-time rosters of NorCal and SoCal players in simulated games. Henry Schulman and North manager Bruce Jenkins have the wrapup from Candlestick Park. | Follow the I-5 Series: sfchronicle.com/sports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Northern California manager Bruce Jenkins joins Henry Schulman to talk about Game 1 of Golden Greats: The I-5 Series, an APBA Baseball simulation between all-time all-star teams from Northern California and Southern California. Seals Stadium in San Francisco played small as the Northerners jumped on Don Drysdale and Gerrit Cole for five runs each on the way to an 11-6 win. Jon Miller calls the play of the game, a first-inning home run by Barry Bonds. | Follow the I-5 Series: sfchronicle.com/spor...
Former A's reliever Craig Breslow, now an executive with the Chicago Cubs and once known as the smartest man in baseball, talks with Susan Slusser about his time with the A's, the logistics of baseball's return and his charity for pediatric cancer research. | Coronavirus updates: sfchronicle.com/coronavirus | A’s Plus Newsletter: sfchronicle.com/asnewsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Former A’s and Giants catcher Stephen Vogt, on the Northern California roster for the I-5 Series, talks with John Shea about his love and appreciation for baseball history and growing up in a baseball family. | A’s Plus Newsletter: sfchronicle.com/asnewsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In an A's Plus/Giants Splash combo podcast, Giants manager Gabe Kapler and Dodgers manager Dave Roberts take to a Zoom call to pick their lineups from the 34-man rosters of all-time Norcal and SoCal greats selected from more than 100,000 votes. | A’s Plus Newsletter: sfchronicle.com/asnewsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In an A's Plus/Giants Splash combo podcast, The Chronicle's John Shea and Bruce Jenkins and the L.A. Times' Houston Mitchell and Steve Henson break down the all-time NorCal vs. SoCal rosters based on fan votes ahead of a seven-game APBA virtual series in which Game 1 lineups will be selected by Giants manager Gabe Kapler and Dodgers manager Dave Roberts. A’s Plus Newsletter: sfchronicle.com/asnewsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Reggie Jackson, the centerpiece of the A’s 1970s dynasty, talks to Susan Slusser from his home in Monterey about how he’s handling sheltering in place, his thoughts on baseball starting up again and his love for the Oakland A’s franchise even after decades of working for the Yankees. | Coronavirus updates: sfchronicle.com/coronavirus | A’s Plus Newsletter: sfchronicle.com/asnewsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Will plans to restart baseball be safe for players who are at higher risk? Reliever Jake Diekman, who has ulcerative colitis, tells Susan Slusser he wants to play, but he doesn't want to compromise his health or his family's, nor does he want baseball to take tests away from those who need them most. | Coronavirus updates: sfchronicle.com/coronavirus | A’s Plus Newsletter: sfchronicle.com/asnewsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
With baseball on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic, we’re going to play an APBA series between Northern California and Southern California — Golden Greats: the I-5 Series — with rosters full of big-leaguers through the years and fans voting to decide both rosters. John Shea moderates a roster discussion with Chronicle colleague Bruce Jenkins and the L.A. Times' Steve Henson. | A’s Plus Newsletter: sfchronicle.com/asnewsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As the 10th anniversary of Dallas Braden's perfect game -- on Mother's Day, 2010 -- approaches, the man who caught that game, Landon Powell, takes Susan Slusser through that remarkable day. | A’s Plus Newsletter: sfchronicle.com/asnewsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Former A's owner Wally Haas talks with Susan Slusser about his family's tenure with Oakland from the days of Billy Ball, A World Series title and an unprecedented work stoppage that has parallels to today. Plus, who was his favorite player? | A’s Plus Newsletter: sfchronicle.com/asnewsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Former A's catcher Landon Powell talks to Susan Slusser about losing his infant daughter to a rare disorder in 2013, and how his own health issue puts him at-risk during the coronavirus outbreak. Also, he was coaching the top-ranked Div. II school when the NCAA shut down. | Coronavirus updates: sfchronicle.com/coronavirus | A’s Plus Newsletter: sfchronicle.com/asnewsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Part 2 with Micah Bowie with Susan Slusser, the former A's reliever expands on his nearly fatal medical issues after a device implanted to lessen back pain began electrocuting him from the inside, leaving him with massive lung damage. He's now concerned about COVID-19 patients enduring similar battles. | Coronavirus updates: sfchronicle.com/coronavirus | A’s Plus Newsletter: sfchronicle.com/asnewsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Former A's reliever Micah Bowie opens up to Susan Slusser about his nearly fatal medical issues after a device implanted to lessen back pain began electrocuting him from the inside, leaving him with massive lung damage. He's now concerned about COVID-19 patients enduring similar battles. | Coronavirus updates: sfchronicle.com/coronavirus | A’s Plus Newsletter: sfchronicle.com/asnewsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chronicle A's beat writer Susan Slusser, Giants beat writer Henry Schulman and assistant sports editor Jon Schultz answer Chronicle subscribers' questions about the A's and Giants in the second of two parts. Could robo umps be part of the solution when baseball returns? Will the White House have any say on baseball's restart? | Coronavirus updates: sfchronicle.com/coronavirus | A’s Plus Newsletter: sfchronicle.com/asnewsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chronicle A's beat writer Susan Slusser, Giants beat writer Henry Schulman and assistant sports editor Jon Schultz answer Chronicle subscribers' questions about the A's and Giants in the first of two parts. How are the A's and Giants players working out? And how is Susan's ankle injury healing? | A’s Plus Newsletter: sfchronicle.com/asnewsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Former A's catcher Rob Bowen calls Susan from Georgia, where he's got an entirely new and exciting second career in law enforcement. He describes his work in the K9 and SWAT units since leaving baseball and chats about his dog partners. | A’s Plus Newsletter: sfchronicle.com/asnewsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In a joint interview, top rookies and ex-roommates A.J. Puk and Jesus Luzardo discuss how they're weathering baseball's COVID-19 shutdown and dealing with the possibility of no baseball at all this year, and Puk provides an update on his health. | Coronavirus updates: sfchronicle.com/coronavirus | A’s Plus Newsletter: sfchronicle.com/asnewsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Closer Liam Hendriks and wife Kristi tell Susan how they're handling baseball's hiatus, which members of their animal family are with them in Arizona, how Liam is managing to work out safely, plus plans for their anti-bullying campaign. | Coronavirus updates: sfchronicle.com/coronavirus | A's Plus Newsletter: sfchronicle.com/asnewsletter | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Shortstop and A's player representative Marcus Semien discusses the coronavirus shutdown with Susan Slusser. He also talks about the potential ramifications on service time and free agency, plus what he's doing to stay in shape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Susan Slusser talks to the A's broadcaster — and her co-author — about baseball's decision to halt during the coronavirus outbreak and how he and his family, including his 101-year-old father, are doing. | Get unlimited Chronicle access. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Giants writer John Shea and A’s writer Matt Kawahara discuss Major League Baseball’s decision to suspend spring training and delay the start of the season amid the coronavirus pandemic and how the Bay Area baseball teams are responding. | A's Plus Newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
MLB.com national baseball writer Mark Feinsand talks to Susan about the league's response to the coronavirus health crisis -- plus he picks the A's to win the AL West. | A's Plus Newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The A’s outfielder tells Matt Kawahara about the key to his productive 2019, the toughest pitcher he's faced in the majors, his stance on bat flips and his favorite restaurants around the Bay Area. | Get unlimited Chronicle access. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chronicle A’s beat writer Susan Slusser joins Matt Kawahara to discuss some of the position battles playing out in spring training, how the A’s might use their 26th roster spot – and her prognosis on recovery from a broken ankle. | A's Plus Newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
New assistant hitting coach Eric Martins, a former mailman who scouted for the A’s and played and coached for them in the minors, tells Matt Kawahara about joining the big-league staff and his approach to working with hitters, and breaks down some of Oakland’s young hitting prospects. | A's Plus Newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
