Warriors Erase 25-Point Deficit to Beat Lakers 112-95 at Chase Center

The Golden State Warriors erased a 25-point first-quarter deficit at Chase Center to defeat the Los Angeles Lakers 112-95 for their third consecutive win and largest comeback victory since 2015, according to The San Francisco Standard, headlining a weekend across the Bay Area that also featured ultrasonic bat tracking in Golden Gate Park (The San Francisco Standard), the expansion of Palo Alto's 5,000-square-foot Japanese market and restaurant Yutori (The San Francisco Standard), and a 300-person Union Square procession honoring Sydna Konstin (San Francisco Examiner).

Warriors 112, Lakers 95: Curry Scores 31 and Bench Dominates 50-7

After Lakers guard Luka Doncic scored 21 points with 5 assists in the opening 12 minutes to build a 38-15 first-quarter lead — following rookie Yaxel Lendeborg's season-opener trash talk — Golden State (3-3) responded after a first-quarter huddle speech by assistant coach Anthony Vereen by winning the second quarter 38-15 and holding Los Angeles to 15 points in both the second and fourth quarters.

The Warriors' bench outscored the Lakers' bench 50-7, and Golden State closed the game with a 26-4 run bridging the third and fourth quarters to record a 17-point victory — the largest winning margin in the NBA play-by-play era for any team that trailed by 25 or more points:

• Steph Curry: Scored 31 points while passing Dominique Wilkins for 18th place on the NBA's all-time scoring list and repeatedly attacking Doncic on switches.
• Supporting Cast: Brandin Podziemski scored 21 points with a drawn charge, De'Anthony Melton scored 16 points, Georges Niang hit 3 three-pointers, Draymond Green dished 9 assists, Charles Bassey blocked a shot leading to a Lendeborg alley-oop, and Will Richard applied full-court ball pressure.
• Defensive Clampdown: After committing 10 turnovers in the first 10 minutes, Golden State committed only 5 turnovers over the final three quarters, forced Lakers guard Austin Reaves into 8 turnovers, denied lobs to center Walker Kessler, and held Doncic (who finished with 37 points on 27 shots and holds a 39.8% career usage rate) to 1-of-5 shooting in the second quarter and zero assists over his final 25 minutes.

Ultrasonic Bat Detection at Blue Heron Lake in Golden Gate Park

Across town at Golden Gate Park's Blue Heron Lake, San Francisco filmmaker Kristin Tièche — director of the documentary The Invisible Mammal — demonstrated how a $179 Echo Meter Touch 2 ultrasonic acoustic detector plugged into an iPad identifies nocturnal bats feeding on midges, mayflies, moths, mosquitoes, caddisflies, and beetles.

Winifred Frick, chief scientist at Bat Conservation International, and Jessie Bunkley, the organization's community science and engagement manager, noted that Golden Gate Park is likely home to many of the 12 bat species native to the Bay Area. Within 10 minutes of sunset, Tièche's acoustic monitor recorded calls from big brown, silver-haired, and little brown bats, as well as calls matching hoary or Mexican free-tailed bats. Corky Quirk, executive director of the Davis-based volunteer rescue group Northern California Bats — who leads summer tours of the 250,000 Mexican free-tailed bat colony beneath the Yolo Causeway near Sacramento — noted that while white-nose syndrome fungus was detected in California in 2018 and confirmed in Humboldt, Sutter, Placer, Amador, and Inyo counties, it has not been found in the Bay Area.

Palo Alto's Yutori Konbini & Union Square Tribute to Sydna Konstin

On the Peninsula at 3375 El Camino Real in Palo Alto, fourth-generation Japanese American owner Jerome Ito has expanded Yutori, a 6-month-old, 5,000-square-foot cafe, konbini, market, and full-service sit-down restaurant bordered by an outdoor patio with 12 Japanese maples. Following the late-September debut of its sit-down restaurant (with a grand opening slated for Sunday), Yutori serves A5 wagyu beef loco moco, ebi katsu brioche sandos, maitake po'boys, $7 grilled unagi with egg onigiri, $48 chef's omakase chirashi platters, $12 miso salmon quinoa salads, $5 tamagoyaki and mentaiko potato salad, blue crab chawanmushi, and Japanese-Italian seafood pasta, alongside a retail gallery featuring 400-year-old Hijica Ceramics, $40 bamboo spatulas, $18.50 koji-enhanced soy sauce, Oka vodka from Kyushu Prefecture, and hand-turned wooden bowls from Ishikawa.

In San Francisco's Union Square, a police-escorted procession of roughly 300 mourners followed a bagpiper from the 32nd-floor ballroom of the Westin St. Francis to John's Grill — the restaurant owned by Sydna Konstin's family for 3 generations — to celebrate Konstin's life, featuring tributes from former Mayors London Breed and Willie Brown, Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, and her younger brother John Konstin Jr.