Jesse Garnier

Photographs by Scot Tucker/SFBay They almost gave it away. Then, just like that, Willy Adames ripped it right back. Amid the pulsating bedlam of an statuesque Oracle Park home opener, Adames played the hero Friday afternoon, lining a two-out, two-run single to right in the bottom of the 11th to cap a chaotic, see-saw, 10-9 Giants victory over Seattle. Forget the script. This game mulched it. Composted it. Then fertilized it with a slurry of pure adrenaline and maybe a little Bay Area magic.

Norman “Norm” Yoshio Mineta, who rose from Japanese-American incarceration as a child, to mayor of San José, to Congress, to the highest levels of American politics under multiple U.S. Presidents, died Tuesday at his home in Maryland. As a politician, Mineta capped two decades of serving South Bay voters in Congress by being named the first Asian-American cabinet secretary under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. As transportation secretary under Bush, Mineta’s actions on and after Sept.

After a pro-life stunt stole Tuesday morning headlines in San Francisco, reproductive rights supporters will gather at the Federal Building for a 5 p.m. rally to protect the imperiled, 49-year-old Supreme Court Roe v. Wade precedent. Multiple groups, including Women’s March, the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice, and others organized nationwide action hours after news of a leaked draft opinion overturning Roe was first reported by Politico.