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The San Francisco Giants selected Rutgers outfielder Peyton Bonds in the third round (90th overall) of the MLB draft on Saturday.
You might note the name Bonds and the Giants and wonder.
Youre mostly right.
Bonds is the son of Bobby Bonds Jr.
(11-year minor league veteran, spending four seasons in the Giants system), the grandson of Bobby Bonds (14-year big league veteran who played seven years for the Giants and amassed 57.2 career WAR) and the nephew of Barry Bonds (seven-time MVP, all-time home run king, 22-year veteran, with 15 of those campaigns playing for the Giants).
This wasnt a nepotism or a feel-good pick: Peyton Bonds is a real talent.
He ranked 115th in ESPNs final draft rankings, which included a number of high school players ahead of him who will be going to college instead of turning pro.
Based on his talent, selecting Bonds in the third round was appropriate.
The 6-foot-5, 230-pound outfielder played for Campbell in 2024 then at Rutgers in 2025 and 2026, hitting .305 with 16 home runs over three college seasons.
He hit .352 with six home runs and 13 stolen bases this past season.
Bonds has plus raw power like many of his family members.
He hit a ball 111.2 mph off a wood bat in batting practice at the MLB draft combine and with a maximum exit velocity of 120.7 mph with aluminum in a game this spring.
Bonds also has above-average bat-to-ball ability (.352 batting average this past season), but a poor chase rate (39%, well worse than average).
He is a solid average runner, with enough speed to steal a few bases and possibly stick in center field long term.
Four people were arrested and three others were cited following a fight that took place following a San Francisco Giants game at Oracle Park Thursday night.
According to San Francisco police, the fight broke out at 9:46 p.m., after the matchup between the Giants and Colorado Rockies in which San Francisco won 8-2.
Officers working at the ballpark responded and detained seven people who were involved.
A preliminary investigation by police determined that the altercation was result of a verbal dispute that turned physical.
Officers said they developed probable cause to place four people under arrest.
Police identified those arrested as 29-year-old Major Norton of Suisun City, 21-year-old Jaylynn Del Toro of Fresno, 23-year-old Elijah Ortega- Garcia of Selma in Fresno County and 26-year-old Gisselle Lopez of Vallejo.
All four were booked into San Francisco County Jail on suspicion of disturbing the peace and public intoxication.
Norton was also booked on suspicion of assault likely to produce great bodily injury.
Three people were cited for disturbing the peace and released.
Police did not provide additional details about the fight.
In a statement to CBS News Bay Area, a Giants spokesperson said the incident was a horrible and intolerable display of behavior.
SFPD made multiple arrests and those involved will be banned from the park, the team added.
The Giants are in the middle of a four-game series with the Rockies, which concludes on Sunday.
Both teams are at the bottom of the National League West standings heading into next weeks All-Star break.
Coffee, croissants and classical music brought office workers, residents and visitors together at One Sansome as the free monthly Baroque & Brew series transformed a weekday morning into a community gathering in downtown San Francisco.
The event, held inside the Conservatory at One Sansome, featured live performances by Philharmonia Baroque and invited attendees to enjoy music in the landmark buildings 8,100-square-foot atrium.
Guests were free to sit or stand while listening, with many nearby office workers stopping in during an early lunch break.
The monthly series is scheduled to return in August and September and aims to bring together downtown workers and neighbors through music and shared public space.
Its a beautiful opportunity to have coffee, to be in community, and do what our city is known forthe art, the cultureand to share it with each other, attendee Roger Joyner said.
Its a beautiful summertime moment.
Joyner said events like Baroque & Brew reflect the character of the city.
I think thats what San Francisco is meant to be...a city that offers culture and the beauty of art to the world.
And we that live here get to enjoy it, he said.
Organizers said the performances are intended to make live classical music more accessible while contributing to ongoing efforts to revitalize downtown San Francisco.
Its just a really nice way for us to get the music out of the concert hall to the people downtown, trying to reactivate Downtown San Francisco and show what a welcoming place we can be as a city, said Isaac Bunch, general manager of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale.
For Joyner, the event also offered a chance to pause amid the pace of daily life.
We get to take a break.
We are hustle and bustle, doing what we do to make the city work, and then we get refreshed by it, he said.
I think its great it brings it right into the middle of our hub.
The gathering highlighted how music, conversation and public spaces can bring people together as downtown San Francisco continues its recovery.
The Affordable Groceries Act aimed to increase access to grocery stores and pharmacy chains by taxing empty storefronts and establishing a fund to subsidize groceries.
A view down an aisle at a Safeway supermarket in Walnut Creek, California, on July 22, 2025.
Mahmood, who represents the Tenderloin, claims that Lurie stepped in to swat down the grocery store tax proposal because Amazon, which owns Whole Foods Market, had been lobbying intensely against the proposal at City Hall for weeks.
(Smith Collection/Gado via Getty Images) They dont like taxes on corporations.
Its just philosophical.
But the unprecedented part is that yesterday, I got a call that they are going to actively oppose this, Mahmood said of the Lurie administration.
The only conclusion I can draw is this comes from pressure that Amazon built.
Mahmood, who represents the Tenderloin, claims that Lurie stepped in to swat down the grocery store tax proposal because Amazon, which owns Whole Foods Market, had been lobbying intensely against the proposal at City Hall for weeks.
According to Mahmood, Amazon lobbyists requested an exemption to the legislation for the companys shuttered Whole Foods storefront on Market Street.
Mahmood declined the request.
They said, if you do this, we will campaign against it, Mahmood told KQED.
The explicit words from their lobbyists were, we just spent $250,000 against Prop D.
We could probably do the same here again.
Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Proposition D, known as the Overpaid CEO Tax, appeared on the June primary ballot and aimed to tax major corporations to fill the citys budget gaps.
Opponents, including moderate political pressure groups and tech leaders, spent millions of dollars to defeat it.
Lurie also urged a no vote.
It ultimately failed to pass.
The closure of grocery stores and pharmacies has factored into affordability challenges in the city.
Nearly a third of San Franciscans living below the poverty line are food insecure, according to a 2024 report by the citys Food Security Task Force, and nearly 110,000 residents utilize CalFresh, a food benefits program that the Trump administration has made qualifying for more difficult.
But Lurie has said Mahmoods plan wont help fill the citys many empty grocery stores.
Mayor Lurie is working to bring grocery stories to San Franciscos communities.
More taxes wont achieve that, said Charles Lukvak, the mayors spokesperson.
We support the Affordable Grocery Fund and will continue working with Supervisor Mahmood and the entire Board to bring more grocery stores to the city.
Taxes collected on the vacant storefront proposal could have gone toward a new affordable grocery fund, which would also accept private donations if both measures passed.
The fund would be intended for a variety of different affordability programs focused on healthy food.
Mahmood said Lurie urged Supervisor Connie Chan to cut the item from the upcoming Budget and Finance Committee agenda, striking its chances of going on the ballot this November.
A spokesperson for Chan said she supports the intent of the legislation but that it required more work and was not ready to go before the board or voters.
Budget Chair Connie Chan agrees with Supervisor Mahmoods intent for this measure we need more neighborhood grocery stores but she also understands that much work needs to be done to this measure to deliver that intent, said Robyn Burke, Chans spokesperson.
Supervisor Mahmood has amendments he wants to make to his legislation that he is still working on.
Mahmood said he had support from Supervisors Chyanne Chen, Danny Sauter, Stephen Sherrill and Myrna Melgar for the proposal.
He has a final Hail Mary he is holding out for that could allow the proposal to move forward after a motion next Tuesday, if Board President Rafael Mandelman steps in to initiate a vote.
Mandelman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
When a proposal to make groceries more affordable gets pulled from the agenda before the public even gets to weigh in, thats a problem no matter who asked for it, Mahmood said.
San Franciscans deserve an up-or-down vote, in public, from their elected leaders.
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