On the baseball front:
•You could almost hear the cheering from the Giants’ fans. When David Price was traded to Toronto on Thursday, it meant that the three best starting pitchers on the trade market — Price, Cole Hamels and Johnny Cueto — would not be wearing L.A. uniforms down the stretch. The Dodgers did improve their rotation in the three-team deal involving Miami and Atlanta, but it remains to be seen how much.
Mat Latos certainly isn’t going to scare the Giants, who have never found him much of a mystery, and Latos has a 5.