It was a battle within itself, but the Athletics were able to end an 11-game losing streak by taking down the mammoth Philadelphia Phillies 5-4 at Sutter Health Park on May 25. Catcher Willie MacIver’s game-winning hit drove in Lawrence Butler in the bottom of the 9th inning to seal the deal. It was MacIver’s first Major League Baseball hit of his career. Originally from Pleasanton, Calif., MacIver, 28, is one of 5 players who were called up from the A’s Triple-A affi

Three days after U.S. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro posthumously exonerated the remaining 256 Port Chicago defendants who were court-martialed for mutiny in 1944 he visited the historical site to participate in the 80th-year commemoration of the worst homefront disaster in the country. Del Toro, a Cuban American, said the momentous occasion at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine Memorial on the Suisun Bay, 35 miles north of San Francisco in Contra Costa County was two-