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49ers Blog | Sacramento Bee — With a No. 25 plaque hanging in between Willie Mays' No. 24 and Juan Marichal's No. 27 down the left-field line at AT&T Park, Barry Bonds jogged out to left …

49ers Blog | Sacramento Bee — At 6-foot-4 and 242 pounds, he's a forceful, feared creature who has cultivated a reputation as one of the most dominant pitchers of the last decade. But with each time …

49ers Blog | Sacramento Bee — At 6-foot-4 and 242 pounds, he’s a forceful, feared creature who has cultivated a reputation as one of the most dominant pitchers of the last decade. But with each time …

SFGate — LOS ANGELES — Shortstop Brandon Crawford is not in the starting lineup for the Giants against the Dodgers on Tuesday night, although for the moment he is not on the concussion disabled list. Brandon Belt is at Dodger Stadium after playing in two rehab games for Triple-A Sacramento, but he has not been activated. The status of both could change before the 7:10 p.m. PDT game begins. Crawford left Monday night’s 5-2 Giants victory and was placed into concussion protocol after he collided with left fielder Gorkys Hernandez while chasing a...

SFGate — LOS ANGELES — Magic Johnson, in the midst of his long and heated rivalry with Larry Bird, predicted that one day the two would be best of friends, two old men sitting on a porch playing checkers. You get the impression that Madison Bumgarner and Clayton Kershaw could be like that someday, way down the dusty road when they’ve both been put out to pasture. Monday night the two great lefties were not friends. They were spittin’, clawin’ rivals, both of them with a lot to prove, each trying to position his team for playoffs. Kershaw won...

SFGate — Who is right-hander Casey Kelly, and can he be another Dereck Rodriguez? That would be asking a lot of Kelly, although there are parallels. Both were drafted as position players. Both have dads who were catchers. Pat Kelly’s big-league career consisted of seven at-bats in three games for Toronto in 1980. As fate would have it, he is the interim bench coach for Cincinnati, where son Casey might start Friday night. “That would definitely be a crazy experience if that ends up working out,” the younger Kelly said a day...