San Francisco Giants 2 - Boston Red Sox 1

From the south bay back up to San Francisco - covered the San Francisco Giants vs the Boston Red Sox on a breezy Wednesday evening.

A game which lacked a lot of action apart from a home run by each team

Brandon Belt's being a splash hit. Always fun, though not something I can actually capture.

Then Mac Williamson hit a home run (his first MLB home run!) in the eighth which made for some fun photos as the ball went over the wall and everyone watched... including the Chevron cars ;)

Though perhaps he was still too excited from his first MLB home run, that it got to his head, causing him to drop this ball, to put Boston with a runner on 2nd and no outs. Whoops!

Boston tried to send in pinch-hitter "Big Papi" David Ortiz, in what would be his last at bat at AT&T Park.

And he ended up earning a walk against Javier Lopez.

Bochy let Lopez strike out Travis Shaw before going to the third pitcher of the inning, Hunter Strikland to finish it off.

San Francisco Giants defeated the Boston Red Sox 2-1

Warriors Stay Alive in Game Five

As unexpected (or predicted) as it was, after splitting the first two games in Oakland, the Golden State Warriors lost both games in Oklahoma City against the Thunder, meaning game 5 was a win or go home situation.

And Warriors showed up for a tough win!

Cary Edmondson and I were covering the game together for USA Today Sports Images and were able to share time on the floor v time shooting elevated. Him covering the 1st and 4th quarters on the floor and me covering the 2nd and the 3rd. This meant each of us had a chance to cover both teams on offense and defense.

As luck would have, Curry scored a three (finally get his shot back) and then followed up with a layup against Steve Adams on the next play and went crazy!

They were able to hold on for the 120-111 win.

They will head back to OKC for Game 6... and hopefully win and then return to Oakland for potential Game 7 on Monday!

NBA: Kings defeat Warriors 114-106 in OT

Headed back to Sacramento for match up between the Golden State Warriors and the Sacramento Kings.

In a bit of a quandry (not that it makes a difference) I was torn on which team I personally wanted to win. I consider myself a fan of both, probably more so Warriors, but since Warriors had defeated the Kings in Oakland, it would be nice for Kings to win at their home.

Also, there would be some poetic justice for former Warriors head coach turned Kings assistant coach, turned Kings head coach to beat his former team. Though both Keith Smart and Mark Jackson seem happy in their current positions.

It was also going to be exciting to see Isaiah Thomas, to battle against another Washington Husky alum, the one he modeled himself after, Nate Robinson.

Such an interesting dynamic to want to beat the person who's footsteps you tried to follow. But I'm sure he's watched enough film of Robinson to know his tendencies and know where he could be beat.

All I really wanted was for it to be a tight and close game. And I got that!

Warriors were up by 9 going into halftime.

But Kings came out and meant business

Tyreke Evans going up for the shot against Andris Biendrins

Then showing off his muscles... really? I think every player on the court is pretty muscular, no sense in trying to show off.

In the fourth quarter I was thinking man, this game is so exciting, I don't want it to be over at the end of this quarter!... And be careful what you wish for because the game went into overtime. This would have been awesome if I didn't have to drive back to San Francisco and run my first ever 5K the next morning at 8am... but let's face it, it was still awesome!

Kings were able to control the ball in overtime for an exciting 114-106 win at home!