Adames hits 2-run single with two outs in the 11th inning, Giants win home opener over Mariners 10-9

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Willy Adames hit a winning two-run single with two outs in the 11th inning, sending the San Francisco Giants over the Seattle Mariners 10-9 Friday in their home opener to extend their winning streak to five.

Luke Raley had given Seattle a 9-8 lead when he scored on Spencer Bivens' wild pitch with two outs in the top half. Miles Mastrobuoni hit a one-out single against Bivens (1-1) that moved Raley to third after he began as the runner on second base.

Adames, playing his first home game after joining the Giants with a $182 million, seven-year contract, hit a slider to the opposite field in right off Carlos Vargas (0-1). Luis Matos scored the tying run and as Victor Robles bobbled the ball slightly, Tyler Fitzgerald — who had walked and stole second — ran through third baseman Matt Williams' stop sign and slid to slap a hand across the plate.

Julio Rodríguez homered in the first inning off Justin Verlander, who retired just seven batters in his home debut after the 42-year-old signed a $15 million, one-year contract in January to pitch a 20th major league season.

Seattle went ahead 8-6 in the sixth when Fitzgerald misplayed Cal Raleigh’s grounder to second Matt Chapman omered in the bottom half to get the Giants within 8-7 after his RBI single in the first delighted the sellout crowd of 40,865.

Patrick Bailey's groundout in the sixth tied it at 8. LaMonte Wade Jr. hit a pair of doubles, a triple and drove in two runs.

It was otherwise a festive home opener as the Giants celebrated the 25th year of the club's waterfront ballpark that opened on April 11, 2000, with many of the old greats in attendance — including former manager Dusty Baker and home run king Barry Bonds.

Adames stole a hit from Rodríguez in the fifth with a leaping, legs-split grab on a hard line drive.

Heliot Ramos saw the end to his streak of six games with an extra-base hit to start the season. Felipe Alou was the only other Giants player to do so in 1963.

Seattle RHP Bryce Miller (0-1, 4.76 ERA) pitches Saturday opposite Giants lefty Robbie Ray (1-0, 5.06).

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Former San Francisco Giants' manager Dusty Baker waves to the crowd before the Giant's home-opening baseball game against the Seattle Mariners in San Francisco, Friday, April 4, 2025. (Scott Strazzante/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

Former San Francisco Giants' player Barry Bonds waves to the crowd before the Giant's home-opening baseball game against the Seattle Mariners in San Francisco, Friday, April 4, 2025. (Scott Strazzante/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

San Francisco Giants pitcher Randy Rodríguez winds up during the third inning of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners in San Francisco, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)

San Francisco Giants catcher Patrick Bailey celebrates after hitting a double during the third inning of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners in San Francisco, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)

Seattle Mariners' Jorge Polanco starts to run after hitting during the third inning of a baseball game against the San Francisco Giants in San Francisco, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)

Seattle Mariners' Jorge Polanco (7) swings for a strike during the third inning of a baseball game against the San Francisco Giants in San Francisco, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)

San Francisco Giants' Jung Hoo Lee starts to run after hitting during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners in San Francisco, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)

San Francisco Giants' Willy Adames slides into home to score during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners in San Francisco, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)

San Francisco Giants outfielder Heliot Ramos hits during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners in San Francisco, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)

San Francisco Giants pitcher Justin Verlander throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners in San Francisco, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)

San Francisco Giants' Willy Adames celebrates with Patrick Bailey after scoring during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners in San Francisco, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)

Microsoft has fired two employees who interrupted the company's 50th anniversary celebration to protest its work supplying artificial intelligence technology to the Israeli military, according to a group representing the workers.

Microsoft accused one of the workers in a termination letter Monday of misconduct "designed to gain notoriety and cause maximum disruption to this highly anticipated event.” Microsoft says the other worker had already announced her resignation, but on Monday it ordered her to leave five days early.

The protests began Friday when Microsoft software engineer Ibtihal Aboussad walked up toward a stage where an executive was announcing new product features and a long-term vision for Microsoft's AI ambitions.

“You claim that you care about using AI for good but Microsoft sells AI weapons to the Israeli military," Aboussad shouted at Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. "Fifty-thousand people have died and Microsoft powers this genocide in our region.”

The protest forced Suleyman to pause his talk while it was being livestreamed from Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Washington. Among the participants at the 50th anniversary of Microsoft's founding were co-founder Bill Gates and former CEO Steve Ballmer.

Microsoft said Suleyman calmly tried to de-escalate the situation. “Thank you for your protest, I hear you,” he said. Aboussad continued, shouting that Suleyman and “all of Microsoft” had blood on their hands. She also threw onto the stage a keffiyeh scarf, which has become a symbol of support for Palestinian people, before being escorted out of the event.

A second protester, Microsoft employee Vaniya Agrawal, interrupted a later part of the event.

Aboussad, based at Microsoft's Canadian headquarters in Toronto, was invited on Monday to a call with a human resources representative at which she was told she was being fired immediately, according to the advocacy group No Azure for Apartheid, which has protested the sale of Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform to Israel.

An investigation by The Associated Press revealed earlier this year that AI models from Microsoft and OpenAI had been used as part of an Israeli military program to select bombing targets during the recent wars in Gaza and Lebanon. The story also contained details of an errant Israeli airstrike in 2023 that struck a vehicle carrying members of a Lebanese family, killing three young girls and their grandmother.

In its termination letter, Microsoft told Aboussad she could have raised her concerns confidentially to a manager. Instead, it said she made “hostile, unprovoked, and highly inappropriate accusations” against Suleyman and the company and that her “conduct was so aggressive and disruptive that you had to be escorted out of the room by security.”

Agrawal had already given her two weeks notice and was preparing to leave the company on April 11, but on Monday a manager emailed that Microsoft "has decided to make your resignation immediately effective today.”

It was the most public but not the first protest over Microsoft's work with Israel. In February, five Microsoft employees were ejected from a meeting with CEO Satya Nadella for protesting the contracts.

“We provide many avenues for all voices to be heard,” said a statement from the company Friday. “Importantly, we ask that this be done in a way that does not cause a business disruption. If that happens, we ask participants to relocate. We are committed to ensuring our business practices uphold the highest standards.”

Microsoft had declined to say Friday whether it was taking further action, but Aboussad and Agrawal expected it was coming after both lost access to their work accounts shortly after the protest.

Dozens of Google workers were fired last year after internal protests over a contract it also has with the Israeli government. Employee sit-ins at Google offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California targeted a $1.2 billion deal known as Project Nimbus providing AI technology to the Israeli government.

The Google workers later filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board in an attempt to get their jobs back.

CORRECTS DATE - A pro-Palestinian demonstrator, Ibtihal Aboussad, is escorted away by security as they interrupt Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman during a presentation of the company's AI assistant, Copilot, ahead of a 50th Anniversary presentation at Microsoft headquarters, Friday, April 4, 2025, in Redmond, Wash. (AP Photo/Jason Redmond)