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Joseph Estevez

About Joseph Estevez

Joseph Estevez is the Sports Editor for EMI Sports Central. He joined the organization's Elan Marketing Inc. in 2001. He concentrates mostly on the Bay Area's professional sport teams. He was there for the NFC game 49ers vs Dallas game 1995 at Candlestick Park. Also documented the Golden State Warriors team's playoffs run to the 2015 NBA Finals.

San Francisco Giants Increase Playoff Chance Giants beat Diamondbacks, end Gallen’s record streak 2020.09.07 – The San Francisco Giants beat the Arizona Diamondbacks and are now at 21-21 and back to .500. If the season ended now, the Giants and Miami Marlins would claim the final two playoff spots in […]

San Francisco Giants Increase Playoff Chance

in EMI Sports Giants tagged Alex Dickerson / Arizona Diamondbacks / Donovan Solano / Madison Bumgarner / Mauricio Dubon / San Francisco Giants by Joseph Estevez

Athletics lead atop the American League West Tatís hits 15th home run, Padres win series with A’s 2020.09.06 – Fernando Tatís Jr. matched Angels slugger Mike Trout for the majors’ home run lead with his 15th, a two-run drive in the seventh inning of the San Diego Padres’ back-and-forth 5-3 […]

Athletics lead atop the American League West

in EMI Sports A's tagged Bob Melvin / Fernando Tatis Jr / Oakland Athletics / Ramón Laureano / San Diego Padres / stephen Piscotty by Joseph Estevez

Bumgarner’s return spoiled by Giants bats San Francisco Giants beat the Arizona D-backs 4-3 2020.09.05 – Evan Longoria and Darin Ruf launched back-to-back home runs in the second inning and the Giants spoiled Madison Bumgarner’s return to San Francisco with a 4-3 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday night. […]

Bumgarner’s return spoiled by Giants bats

in EMI Sports Giants tagged Alex Dickerson / Arizona Diamondback / Donovan Solano / Madison Bumgarner / Mike Yastrzemski / San Francisco Giants by Joseph Estevez

Giants Epic 23 Runs in Rout of Rockies Dickerson homers 3x and six RBIs, San Francisco beat Colorado 23-5 2020.09.01 – Alex Dickerson hit three home runs and matched a career high with six RBIs, highlighting San Francisco Giants epic 23 runs on 27 hits as one of the biggest […]

SF Giants Epic 23 Runs in Rout of Rockies

in EMI Sports Giants tagged Alex Dickerson / Colorado Rockies / Donovan Solano / Mike Yastrzemski / San Francisco Giants by Joseph Estevez

Giants Win First Road Series Tops D-backs Cueto, Dickerson beat Arizona Diamondbacks 4-1 2020.08.30 – The San Francisco Giants won their first road series topping the Arizona D-backs. Johnny Cueto pitched effectively into the seventh inning, Alex Dickerson homered and had two RBIs, and the Giants beat the Diamondbacks 4-1 […]

Giants Win First Road Series Tops D-backs

in EMI Sports Giants tagged Alex Dickerson / Arizona Diamondbacks / Johnny Cueto / Mike Yastrzemski / San Francisco Giants by Joseph Estevez

SJ Quakes 2020 Match Video Highlights: 2020.08.29 – (SJ Earthquakes vs. LA Galaxy) Full Highlights! – Quakes 16 year old Cade Cowell makes first MLS start and goal Watch this video on YouTube 2020.08.29 – (SJ Earthquakes vs. LA Galaxy) Full Highlights! 2020.08.01 – (SJ Earthquakes vs. Minnesota United […]

SJ Quakes 2020 Match Video Highlights

in EMI Sports Earthquakes tagged Cade Cowell / Chris Wondolowski / Cristian Espinoza / Matias Almeyda / San Jose Earthquakes by Joseph Estevez

49ers camp highlights Bosa vs Williams Week One: The Nick Bosa-Trent Williams feature match Camp Update: 49ers injury news – Kyle Shanahan would be ‘very surprised’ if Nick Bosa and Dee Ford weren’t available for Week 1 2020.09.02 – San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan spoke with reporters […]

49ers camp highlights Bosa vs Williams match

in EMI Sports 49ers tagged Dante Pettis / Jimmy Garoppolo / Kyle Shanahan / Nick Bosa / San Francisco 49ers / Trent Williams by Joseph Estevez

Giants Clinch Series beating the Angels The Giants’ bats threw Joey Bart a welcome party 2020.08.20 – The San Francisco Giants clinch the series by showing lots of runs from bats that have made Oracle Park home, exploding for ten runs in route to a 10-5 win over the LA […]

SF Giants Clinch Series beating the Angels

in EMI Sports Giants tagged Johnny Cueto / Los Angeles Angels / Mike Yastrzemski / Pablo Sandoval / San Francisco Giants by Joseph Estevez

Athletics Sweep Giants in Bay Bridge Series Piscotty HR, 5 RBIs, A’s rout the Giants 15-3 2020.08.16 – Stephen Piscotty and Marcus Semien homered in the fifth inning as the Oakland Athletics rout the San Francisco Giants 15-3 Sunday for their Bay Bridge Series sweep. Piscotty matched his career high […]

Athletics Sweep Giants in Bay Bridge Series

in EMI Sports A's tagged Bob Melvin / Hunter Pence / Matt Olson / Oakland Athletics / San Francisco Giants / stephen Piscotty by Joseph Estevez

49ers’ Kittle the Most Anticipated Contract Five more years with the best TE in the NFL 2020.08.13 – The San Francisco 49ers most anticipated contract extension this off-season culminates with George Kittle’s agreement to a 5-year extension of the best TE in the NFL. The All-Pro tight end Kittle agreed […]

49ers’ Kittle the Most Anticipated Contract

in EMI Sports 49ers tagged George Kittle / Jed York / Jimmy Garoppolo / John Lynch / Kyle Shanahan / San Francisco 49ers by Joseph Estevez

Pence lift Giants to even the series with Astros Hunter Pence hits a three-run homer – Giants pass Astros 2020.08.11 – Astros led by 4 with two outs in the seventh when Hunter Pence hit a three-run pinch-hit homer to cut the lead to 6-5. The San Francisco Giants finished […]

Pence lift Giants to even the series with Astros

in EMI Sports Giants tagged Brandon Crawford / Hunter Pence / Mike Yastrzemski / San Francisco Giants by Joseph Estevez

Oakland A’s Sweep the Houston Astros Laureano, Allen ejected in 7th after a bench-clearing altercation 2020.08.09 – Following two competitive games at the Coliseum, the Oakland Athletics and Houston Astros showed a bench-clearing altercation as things got so angry the benches cleared during Oakland’s 7-2 victory over the AL West […]

Athletics Sweep Series from Astros – Win 9th in row

in EMI Sports A's tagged Bob Melvin / Houston Astros / Jose Altuve / Marcus Semien / Matt Olson / Oakland Athletics by Joseph Estevez

Giants First Series Win Over Rangers Longoria, Tromp blast homers – Rangers avoid sweep in San Francisco 2020.08.02 – Evan Longoria and Chadwick Tromp homered for the San Francisco Giants showing blasting power for their first season series win over the Texas Rangers. Willie Calhoun hit a tiebreaking sacrifice fly […]

Giants First Series Win Over Rangers

in EMI Sports Giants tagged Chadwick Tromp / Evan Longoria / Gabe Kapler / Mike Yastrzemski / San Francisco Giants by Joseph Estevez

Valiant Giants Series Fall Short to Padres San Diego use big six-run 10th for the win over San Francisco 2020.07.30 – Tommy Pham hit a go-ahead single in the 10th inning after Trent Grisham began at second base under baseball’s new extra-innings rule, and the San Diego Padres beat the […]

Valiant Giants Series Fall Short to Padres

in EMI Sports Giants tagged Gabe Kapler / Mauricio Dubon / Mike Yastrzemski / San Diego Padres / San Francisco Giants / Tommy Pham by Joseph Estevez

Rockies Sweep Two Game Series Over A’s Germán Márquez leads Rockies over A’s 5-1 2020.07.29 – German Márquez struck out eight over six impressive innings and the Colorado Rockies wrapped up a two game series sweep by beating the Oakland Athletics 5-1 on Wednesday. Charlie Blackmon delivered an insurance run […]

Rockies Sweep Two Game Series Over A’s

in EMI Sports A's tagged Bob Melvin / Colorado Rockies / German Marquez / Matt Olson / Oakland Athletics by Joseph Estevez

Kapler Earned First Win as Giants Manager San Francisco Giants beat the Los Angeles Dodgers for Kapler 2020.07.25 – Gabe Kapler earned his first win as a San Francisco manager and the Giants beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-4 on Saturday. After getting outscored 17-2 in the first two games, […]

Kapler Earned First Win as Giants Manager

in EMI Sports Giants tagged Austin Slater / Gabe Kapler / Logan Webb / Mauricio Dubon / San Francisco Giants by Joseph Estevez

Oakland Athletics Series Opener vs Angels Matt Olson Launches Walk-off Grand Slam in Opening Day 2020.07.24 – The Oakland Athletics and the Los Angeles Angels played the first extra inning series opener of the 2020 season. Matt Olson hit the first Opening Day walk-off grand slam in the 10th to […]

Oakland Athletics Series Opener vs Angels

in EMI Sports A's tagged Bob Melvin / Marcus Semien / Matt Olson / Oakland Athletics by Joseph Estevez

Cueto Gets Pulled Early in LA Season Opener SF Giants fall to LA Dodgers in Fan-less Opener 2020.07.23 – Johnny Cueto gets pulled and the San Francisco Giants lost its shimmy in the LA opener as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the rival Giants 8-1 in a fan-less and shortened […]

SF Giants Force a Split from LA Dodgers

in EMI Sports Giants tagged Johnny Cueto / Los Angeles Dodgers / Mookie Betts / San Francisco Giants by Joseph Estevez

Quakes Strong Start in MLS is Back Tournament Vega, Frei standout as San Jose play to a draw with Seattle 2020.07.10 – The Coronavirus could not slow down the strong start by the San Jose Earthquakes versus the Seattle Sounders FC for the opener to the MLS is Back tournament […]

Quakes Strong Start in MLS is Back Tournament

in EMI Sports Earthquakes tagged Chris Wondolowski / Cristian Espinoza / Daniel Vega / Matias Almeyda / MLS soccer / San Jose Earthquakes by Joseph Estevez

49ers Fourth Quarter Super Bowl Collapse! The San Francisco 49ers lose to the Kansas City Chiefs 2020.02.02 – The San Francisco 49ers collapse during fourth quarter, they were less than nine minutes away from winning the Super Bowl on Sunday and end up losing to the Kansas City Chiefs 31-20 […]

49ers Fourth Quarter Super Bowl Collapse

in EMI Sports 49ers tagged Jimmy Garoppolo / Kyle Shanahan / Nick Bosa / Raheem Mostert / Richard Sherman / San Francisco 49ers by Joseph Estevez

RELATED: San Jose Earthquakes Home Opener is Saturday 2/29/20 #Quakes74 vs #TorontoFC. The MLS 2020 Season for the SJ Quakes Starts February 29, 2020. SJ Quakes 2019 Match Video Highlights: 2019.10.08 – (Portland Timbers vs. SJ Earthquakes) A Playoff Spot Battle! Watch this video on YouTube 2019.10.08 – […]

SJ Quakes 2019 Match Video Highlights

in EMI Sports Earthquakes tagged Magnus Eriksson / Matias Almeyda / San Jose Earthquakes / Wondolowski by Joseph Estevez

Tiger-mania back to the San Francisco bay area Tiger Woods Masters Champion Again! Greatest Comebacks in Sports 2019.04.14 – Tiger Woods celebrated winning the Masters again and Tiger-mania will be back to the San Francisco bay area soon. Tiger enjoyed his 15th major like never before – fist pump with […]

Tiger-mania back to the San Francisco bay area

in EMI Sports Sponsors tagged Bay Club / Boulder Ridge Golf Club / Harding Park Golf / Safeway Golf Open / Tiger Woods / Tony Romo by Joseph Estevez

Mostert’s Epic Dash to Super Bowl! The San Francisco 49ers beat the Green Bay Packers 2020.01.19 – Raheem Mostert completed an epic game dash for 220 yards and four touchdowns to carry the San Francisco 49ers over the Green Bay Packers 37-20 for the NFC championship and on to Super […]

49ers Mostert’s Epic Dash to Super Bowl

in EMI Sports 49ers tagged Jimmy Garoppolo / Kyle Shanahan / Nick Bosa / Raheem Mostert / Richard Sherman / San Francisco 49ers by Joseph Estevez

49ers Powerful Defense is Back! The San Francisco 49ers dominate the Minnesota Vikings 2020.01.11 – The San Francisco 49ers powerful defense and running game that carried the Niners to an 8-0 start this season delivered a dominating 27-10 victory over the Minnesota Vikings in the divisional round Saturday. The formula […]

49ers Powerful Defense is Back – 49ers (14-3)

in EMI Sports 49ers tagged Jimmy Garoppolo / Kyle Shanahan / Nick Bosa / Richard Sherman / San Francisco 49ers by Joseph Estevez

Marleau scores in his 1,700th NHL game San Jose Sharks spoiled the return of Joe Pavelski, beating the Dallas Stars 2020.01.11 – Patrick Marleau scored a key goal in his 1,700th NHL game, Brent Burns had a goal and an assist, and the San Jose Sharks spoiled the return of […]

Marleau scores in his 1,700th NHL game

in EMI Sports Sharks tagged Aaron Dell / Brent Burns / Joe Thornton / patrick marleau / San Jose Sharks by Joseph Estevez

Greenlaw’s one inch goal-stand! 49ers take NFC West, No. 1 seed with 26-21 win over Seahawks 2019.12.29 – 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw’s one inch goal-stand tackle won’t be forgotten and the San Francisco 49ers beat the Seattle Seahawks 26-21 on Sunday night to clinch the NFC West title plus the […]

Greenlaw’s one inch goal-stand – 49ers (13-3)

in EMI Sports 49ers tagged Dre Greenlaw / George Kittle / Jimmy Garoppolo / Kyle Shanahan / Marshawn Lynch / San Francisco 49ers by Joseph Estevez

Carr Keeps Playoff Hope Alive Oakland Raiders beat Los Angeles Chargers 2019.12.22 – Derek Carr threw for 292 yards and a touchdown as the Oakland Raiders kept their playoff hope alive with a 24-17 victory over the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday. Carr and the Raiders will go into the […]

Carr Keeps Playoff Hope Alive – Raiders to (7-8)

in EMI Sports Raiders tagged DeAndre Washington / Derek Carr / Hunter Renfrow / Jon Gruden / Oakland Raiders by Joseph Estevez

Garoppolo’s Clutch Tenacity! San Francisco 49ers pass the Los Angeles Rams 2019.12.21 – Once again, it was all Jimmy Garoppolo’s pure clutch tenacity going back-to-back on third-and-16 to set up the win. First with only 1:52 seconds to Kendrick Bourne then he hit Emmanuel Sanders for 46 yards with 0:48 […]

Garoppolo’s Clutch Tenacity – 49ers at (12-3)

in EMI Sports 49ers tagged George Kittle / Jared Goff / Jimmy Garoppolo / Los Angeles Rams / San Francisco 49ers by Joseph Estevez

Bumgarner from Giant Hero to Adversary The Giants Ace agrees to a five-year, $85 million deal with the D-backs. 2019.12.17 – The president of the San Francisco Giants Farhan Zaidi, said last week, when asked about the blow-back that would be unleashed the moment Madison Bumgarner goes from giant hero […]

Bumgarner from Giant Hero to Adversary

in EMI Sports Giants tagged Bruce Bochy / Buster Posey / Madison Bumgarner / San Francisco Giants by Joseph Estevez

San Francisco 49ers Clinch Playoff! Atlanta Falcons past the San Francisco 49ers in crazy finish 2019.12.15 – Games should not be this crazy, with 2 seconds left, Falcons QB Matt Ryan connected with Julio Jones on a 5-yard touchdown pass, sending the Atlanta Falcons past the clinch playoff bound San […]

San Francisco 49ers Clinch Playoff – Now (11-3)

in EMI Sports 49ers tagged George Kittle / Jimmy Garoppolo / Kyle Juszczyk / Kyle Shanahan / San Francisco 49ers by Joseph Estevez