Scottsdale Stadium, home of the San Francisco Giants Cactus League Spring Training
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Giants’ spring home schedule

The San Francisco Giants will play 16 home games at Scottsdale Stadium for the 2012 Cactus League season:

March 3: Colorado Rockies.

March 5: Milwaukee Brewers.

March 7: Colorado Rockies.

March 9: Cincinnati Reds.

March 10: Milwaukee Brewers (ss).

March 11: Seattle Mariners.

March 13: Chicago Cubs.*

March 14: Cleveland Indians.

March 17: Oakland Athletics (ss).

March 18: San Diego Padres.

March 23: Texas Rangers.*

March 24: Colorado Rockies (ss).

March 26: Kansas City Royals.

March 27: Los Angeles Angels.

March 28: Los Angeles Dodgers.

March 31: Cincinnati Reds.**

Note: Games start at 1:05 p.m. except where noted. *Game time, 7:05 p.m. **Game time, 3:05 p.m. (ss) Split-squad game.

Information: sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com

Giants reliever Santiago Casilla returned Saturday from the 15-day disabled list after missing all but opening day with an inflamed right elbow.

Casilla was a key member of the Giants’ bullpen last season, going 7-2 with a 1.95 ERA in 52 appearances. He pitched one inning this season, giving up a run in San Francisco’s season-opening loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

To make room for Casilla, the Giants optioned left-hander Dan Runzler to Triple-A Fresno in an effort to get him more work and stretch him out to make him available for additional innings.

San Francisco played at Milwaukee on Saturday.

A suspect in the beating of a San Francisco Giants fan outside Dodger Stadium on opening day remained behind bars today, as police continued hunting for a second suspect and the woman getaway driver following a news media leak.

Giovanni Ramirez, 31, of Los Angeles, was arrested at about 7:10 a.m. Sunday in the 800 block of North Mariposa Avenue in the east Hollywood area. He was booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon — the foot he used to kick his victim — and held in lieu of $1 million bail.

Investigators were preparing additional lineups with multiple witnesses to Stow’s attack, the Los Angeles Times reported today.

On Monday, some media outlets published a mug shot of Ramirez from a file kept by parole agents, but the leak outraged police officials who thought the photo would compromise the investigation if witnesses saw the picture before the lineup. Lineups ask witnesses to identify or recognize a suspect in person and generally produce stronger evidence compared with a witness choosing a suspect from a series of photographs.

Officials contacted news outlets to ask for the removal of the mug shot and requested that no one post the image until the lineups were conducted, The Times reported.

Police Chief Charlie Beck said Ramirez is believed to have been the primary aggressor in the severe beating of 42-year-old Santa Clara paramedic Bryan Stow in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium on March 31. An arraignment

date for Ramirez has not been announced.

Two other suspects — a man sought for his involvement in the assault and a female thought to have been the getaway driver — remain at large, police said.

“We never gave up hope that this day would come; that the beginning of justice being served would happen,” Stow’s sister, Erin Collins, said Monday outside the San Francisco hospital where her brother remains hospitalized. “We look forward to the day when the other suspects are apprehended

as well.

“Bryan has a long road ahead of him, but we are thankful that this suspect is in custody, and is unable to do this to another family,” Collins, who was wearing an LAPD baseball cap, said.

Police notified the family of Ramirez’s arrest about 45 minutes after he was taken into custody, Collins said.

Beck said Sunday the tip that resulted in Sunday morning’s raid had been provided by a parole officer — one of more than 630 leads pursued by more than 20 LAPD detectives who, to date, have worked on the case for more than 6,000 hours, 1,000 of them overtime hours.

Prosecutors were reviewing the case, according to the District Attorney’s Office, which noted that Ramirez has two prior felony convictions and remains jailed on a parole hold.

“Because the Los Angeles Police Department continues to investigate the March 31 beating of Giants fan Bryan Stow, we have no further comment,” according to a District Attorney’s Office statement.

Ramirez had met with his parole agent for a mandatory check-in meeting shortly after the attack, and the agent noticed that he resembled one of two assailants pictured in police sketches of the suspects, the Los Angeles Times reported.

According to The Times, the agent told police — it was unclear exactly when — and Ramirez was summoned back to the office for another meeting last week. That’s when the agent noticed that Ramirez had recently added several tattoos, which covered part of his neck. Authorities believe he was trying to cover up an older tattoo, in case a witness had seen the tattoo and described it to police.

After the meeting, witnesses to the beating picked Ramirez from a selection of photos shown to them by detectives, and a surveillance team followed him around the clock from Friday until Sunday morning, when he was taken into custody.

Stow was flown to San Francisco General Hospital last week after more than a month of treatment at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. His sister said Sunday he has stopped having seizures but has not regained consciousness, even though he is no longer in a coma.

He is still listed in critical condition.

Last week, Beck said the Dodgers donated an additional $100,000 to increase the reward in the case to $250,000. The Dodgers announced last month they had donated $25,000 to the reward fund.

Los Angeles (CNN) — The man alleged to be the “primary aggressor” in the brutal beating of a San Francisco Giants fan at Dodgers Stadium was arrested Sunday and ordered held on $1 million bail, Los Angeles police said.

Police said Giovanni Ramirez, 31, was taken into custody shortly after 7 a.m. after police served warrants at a home and an apartment building in connection with the assault that put Bryan Stow, a 42-year-old father of two from Santa Cruz, California, into a coma.

Stow was attacked in the stadium parking lot following the first game of the Dodgers’ and Giants’ seasons on March 31. His mother, Ann Stow, told HLN’s Jane Velez-Mitchell last week that it “was a random act of violence against somebody who was wearing Giants’ colors.”

For most of Sunday, police withheld Ramirez’s identity until his booking Sunday evening on an assault with a deadly weapon charge. In addition to Ramirez’s arrest in East Hollywood, police seized evidence and detained several others — all of whom Los Angeles police said they expected to release after they were questioned.

“This investigation is in its very early stages,” Police Chief Charlie Beck said Sunday afternoon outside the stadium. “There are at least two other suspects who we are actively looking for.”

Stow’s assault galvanized law enforcement and other authorities in Los Angeles, and security was clamped down at the park in the Chavez Ravine section of Los Angeles.

More than 300 billboards — which advertise “Wanted” and “Attempted Murder at Dodger Stadium” — sprung up around the Southern California city, featuring composite sketches of the suspects. Meanwhile, a $250,000 reward including money from the Dodgers, Giants’ ace pitcher Tim Lincecum and others was offered for information that led to the beating suspects’ arrest.

Police make use of billboards

Beck assigned 20 detectives to work full-time on the case, saying that as of Sunday afternoon they’d cumulatively worked more than 6,000 hours — about 1,000 of those hours on overtime.

He added that police had pursued more than 630 leads from the public and law enforcement. That included a tip from a parole officer that Beck said led to Sunday morning’s arrest.

“No matter how small or insignificant it may have seemed at the time, each fact was a critical piece,” Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said of the tips. “And hard work, around the clock, brought us to this (moment) today.”

Like Beck, Los Angeles City Council member Ed Reyes urged the two remaining suspects to turn themselves in.

“We’re not going to stop,” Reyes said. “Let’s end this.”

Dodgers spokesman Howard Sunkin, reading a statement from owner Frank McCourt, applauded the Los Angeles police force, pledged the team’s full commitment to the probe and promised to make Dodgers Stadium “the safest sports venue in the United States.”

Giants President Laurence Baer told CNN affiliate KGO that the arrest was “comforting” for the team and its fans, adding his best hope is that the incident might spur more civility at sporting events.

“It’s been sort of a cloud over the organization,” Baer said, adding that he expected Giants’ players will likely visit the ailing Stow. “That there’s an arrest (and) they can bring someone to justice is … meaningful.”

Stow, a paramedic by training, had gone to the game with friends in celebration of the Giants’ World Series victory last season, a relative said.

After the game, the two men came up to him in the parking lot and — unprovoked — began kicking and punching him while yelling profanities about the Giants, police said.

Ann Stow said her son was first hit from behind, at which point he fell and his head hit the concrete.

Mother is angry at those who just stood by

“It was just a brutal attack,” she said. “Whatever that guy hit my son with, Bryan was unconscious before he hit the ground, so he had no way to protect his head.”

The attackers fled in a light-colored sedan driven by a woman with a young boy — believed to be about 10 years old — inside, said police.

Stow was taken out of a medically induced coma over a week ago, and has since shown signs of some cognitive function, Los Angeles neurosurgeon Dr. Gabriel Zada said. Stow also has “some movement” in his arms and legs, the doctor said.

He was transferred last week from Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center to San Francisco General and Trauma Center, bringing him closer to his home, Zada said.

Stow has been able to open his eyes in recent days — a positive sign, said his mother, even though he still can’t focus and is not looking around.

His children know about their father’s condition, but still haven’t seen him in the hospital, Stow’s sister, Bonnie Stow, told HLN. The whole family, she said, is pulling for his recovery and hoping that any brain damage is minimal.

“I don’t think it’s a matter of him surviving,” said Bonnie Stow. “It’s just a matter of what he’ll be, if and when he wakes up.”

CNN’s Joe Sutton and CNN Radio’s Ninette Sosa contributed to this report.

Los Angeles (CNN) — The man alleged to be the “primary aggressor” in the brutal beating of a San Francisco Giants fan at Dodgers Stadium was arrested Sunday and ordered held on $1 million bail, Los Angeles police said.

Police said Giovanni Ramirez, 31, was taken into custody shortly after 7 a.m. after police served warrants at a home and an apartment building in connection with the assault that put Bryan Stow, a 42-year-old father of two from Santa Cruz, California, into a coma.

Stow was attacked in the stadium parking lot following the first game of the Dodgers’ and Giants’ seasons on March 31. His mother, Ann Stow, told HLN’s Jane Velez-Mitchell last week that it “was a random act of violence against somebody who was wearing Giants’ colors.”

For most of Sunday, police withheld Ramirez’s identity until his booking Sunday evening on an assault with a deadly weapon charge. In addition to Ramirez’s arrest in East Hollywood, police seized evidence and detained several others — all of whom Los Angeles police said they expected to release after they were questioned.

“This investigation is in its very early stages,” Police Chief Charlie Beck said Sunday afternoon outside the stadium. “There are at least two other suspects who we are actively looking for.”

Stow’s assault galvanized law enforcement and other authorities in Los Angeles, and security was clamped down at the park in the Chavez Ravine section of Los Angeles.

More than 300 billboards — which advertise “Wanted” and “Attempted Murder at Dodger Stadium” — sprung up around the Southern California city, featuring composite sketches of the suspects. Meanwhile, a $250,000 reward including money from the Dodgers, Giants’ ace pitcher Tim Lincecum and others was offered for information that led to the beating suspects’ arrest.

Police make use of billboards

Beck assigned 20 detectives to work full-time on the case, saying that as of Sunday afternoon they’d cumulatively worked more than 6,000 hours — about 1,000 of those hours on overtime.

He added that police had pursued more than 630 leads from the public and law enforcement. That included a tip from a parole officer that Beck said led to Sunday morning’s arrest.

“No matter how small or insignificant it may have seemed at the time, each fact was a critical piece,” Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said of the tips. “And hard work, around the clock, brought us to this (moment) today.”

Like Beck, Los Angeles City Council member Ed Reyes urged the two remaining suspects to turn themselves in.

“We’re not going to stop,” Reyes said. “Let’s end this.”

Dodgers spokesman Howard Sunkin, reading a statement from owner Frank McCourt, applauded the Los Angeles police force, pledged the team’s full commitment to the probe and promised to make Dodgers Stadium “the safest sports venue in the United States.”

Giants President Laurence Baer told CNN affiliate KGO that the arrest was “comforting” for the team and its fans, adding his best hope is that the incident might spur more civility at sporting events.

“It’s been sort of a cloud over the organization,” Baer said, adding that he expected Giants’ players will likely visit the ailing Stow. “That there’s an arrest (and) they can bring someone to justice is … meaningful.”

Stow, a paramedic by training, had gone to the game with friends in celebration of the Giants’ World Series victory last season, a relative said.

After the game, the two men came up to him in the parking lot and — unprovoked — began kicking and punching him while yelling profanities about the Giants, police said.

Ann Stow said her son was first hit from behind, at which point he fell and his head hit the concrete.

Mother is angry at those who just stood by

“It was just a brutal attack,” she said. “Whatever that guy hit my son with, Bryan was unconscious before he hit the ground, so he had no way to protect his head.”

The attackers fled in a light-colored sedan driven by a woman with a young boy — believed to be about 10 years old — inside, said police.

Stow was taken out of a medically induced coma over a week ago, and has since shown signs of some cognitive function, Los Angeles neurosurgeon Dr. Gabriel Zada said. Stow also has “some movement” in his arms and legs, the doctor said.

He was transferred last week from Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center to San Francisco General and Trauma Center, bringing him closer to his home, Zada said.

Stow has been able to open his eyes in recent days — a positive sign, said his mother, even though he still can’t focus and is not looking around.

His children know about their father’s condition, but still haven’t seen him in the hospital, Stow’s sister, Bonnie Stow, told HLN. The whole family, she said, is pulling for his recovery and hoping that any brain damage is minimal.

“I don’t think it’s a matter of him surviving,” said Bonnie Stow. “It’s just a matter of what he’ll be, if and when he wakes up.”

CNN’s Joe Sutton and CNN Radio’s Ninette Sosa contributed to this report.

Los Angeles (CNN) — Los Angeles police arrested a suspect early Sunday in connection with the brutal beating of a San Francisco Giants fan at Dodgers Stadium in March, a police spokesman said.

Bryan Stow, 42, was beaten into a coma on March 31 in the stadium parking lot after the opening game of the Dodgers’ season.

Lt. Rick Stable confirmed the arrest at an east Hollywood apartment, but he would not release the suspect’s name.

“Some additional individuals who were at the search warrant residence have been detained pending further investigation,” he said.

Police, including 17 detectives assigned to the case, have been working to find the two men who attacked Stow.

The Los Angeles Dodgers added $100,000 to increase to $200,000 the reward being offered for information leading to the beating suspects’ arrest.

The Los Angeles Police Department scheduled a news conference for Sunday afternoon to discuss the arrest.

The San Francisco Giants issued a statement praising the police for their work.

“Today’s arrest in the Bryan Stow case is welcome news in what has been a very difficult time for the Stow family,” the team said. “We commend the Los Angeles Police Department for their hard work and we are confident that they will continue to dedicate themselves until all of those responsible for this senseless act of violence have been brought to justice.”

Stow was walking in the stadium parking lot when he was hit from behind with an object, police and his mother said. There are no indications that he knew the assailants or that they attacked him for any reason beyond the fact he was wearing gear of the San Francisco Giants, who are the Dodgers’ biggest rivals.

His mother, Ann Stow, told HLN’s Jane Velez-Mitchell last week that it “was a random act of violence against somebody who was wearing Giants’ colors.”

Mother is angry at those who just stood by

The attackers fled in a light-colored sedan driven by a woman with a young boy — believed to be about 10 years old — inside, said police.

On Tuesday, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck kicked off a billboard campaign aiming to find the two men accused of ambushing and beating Stow. More than 300 billboards — which advertise “Wanted” and “Attempted Murder at Dodger Stadium” — are now up around the southern California city, featuring composite sketches of the suspects.

“This case is one of the top priorities of the Los Angeles Police Department,” Beck told reporters on Tuesday. “We need the public’s help.”

Police make use of billboards

Stow, a father of two, is a paramedic who traveled from Santa Cruz, California, to make his first-ever visit to Dodgers Stadium. He went to the game with friends in celebration of the Giants’ World Series victory last season, a relative said.

After the game, the two men came up to him in the parking lot and — unprovoked — began kicking and punching him while yelling profanities about the Giants, police said.

Ann Stow said her son was first hit from behind, at which point he fell and his head hit the concrete.

“It was just a brutal attack,” she said. “Whatever that guy hit my son with, Bryan was unconscious before he hit the ground, so he had no way to protect his head.”

Stow was taken out of a medically induced coma over a week ago, and has since shown signs of some cognitive function, Los Angeles neurosurgeon Dr. Gabriel Zada said. Stow also has “some movement” in his arms and legs, the doctor said.

He was transferred last week from Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center to San Francisco General and Trauma Center, bringing him closer to his home, Zada said.

Stow has been able to open his eyes in recent days — a positive sign, said his mother, even though he still can’t focus and is not looking around.

His children know about their father’s condition, but still haven’t seen him in the hospital, Stow’s sister, Bonnie Stow, told HLN. The whole family, she said, is pulling for his recovery and hoping that any brain damage is minimal.

“I don’t think it’s a matter of him surviving,” said Bonnie Stow. “It’s just a matter of what he’ll be, if and when he wakes up.”

CNN’s Joe Sutton and CNN Radio’s Ninette Sosa contributed to this report.

Los Angeles (CNN) — Los Angeles police arrested a suspect early Sunday in connection with the brutal beating of a San Francisco Giants fan at Dodgers Stadium in March, a police spokesman said.

Bryan Stow, 42, was beaten into a coma on March 31 in the stadium parking lot after the opening game of the Dodgers’ season.

Lt. Rick Stable confirmed the arrest at an east Hollywood apartment, but he would not release the suspect’s name.

“Some additional individuals who were at the search warrant residence have been detained pending further investigation,” he said.

Police, including 17 detectives assigned to the case, have been working to find the two men who attacked Stow.

The Los Angeles Dodgers added $100,000 to increase to $200,000 the reward being offered for information leading to the beating suspects’ arrest.

The Los Angeles Police Department scheduled a news conference for Sunday afternoon to discuss the arrest.

The San Francisco Giants issued a statement praising the police for their work.

“Today’s arrest in the Bryan Stow case is welcome news in what has been a very difficult time for the Stow family,” the team said. “We commend the Los Angeles Police Department for their hard work and we are confident that they will continue to dedicate themselves until all of those responsible for this senseless act of violence have been brought to justice.”

Stow was walking in the stadium parking lot when he was hit from behind with an object, police and his mother said. There are no indications that he knew the assailants or that they attacked him for any reason beyond the fact he was wearing gear of the San Francisco Giants, who are the Dodgers’ biggest rivals.

His mother, Ann Stow, told HLN’s Jane Velez-Mitchell last week that it “was a random act of violence against somebody who was wearing Giants’ colors.”

Mother is angry at those who just stood by

The attackers fled in a light-colored sedan driven by a woman with a young boy — believed to be about 10 years old — inside, said police.

On Tuesday, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck kicked off a billboard campaign aiming to find the two men accused of ambushing and beating Stow. More than 300 billboards — which advertise “Wanted” and “Attempted Murder at Dodger Stadium” — are now up around the southern California city, featuring composite sketches of the suspects.

“This case is one of the top priorities of the Los Angeles Police Department,” Beck told reporters on Tuesday. “We need the public’s help.”

Police make use of billboards

Stow, a father of two, is a paramedic who traveled from Santa Cruz, California, to make his first-ever visit to Dodgers Stadium. He went to the game with friends in celebration of the Giants’ World Series victory last season, a relative said.

After the game, the two men came up to him in the parking lot and — unprovoked — began kicking and punching him while yelling profanities about the Giants, police said.

Ann Stow said her son was first hit from behind, at which point he fell and his head hit the concrete.

“It was just a brutal attack,” she said. “Whatever that guy hit my son with, Bryan was unconscious before he hit the ground, so he had no way to protect his head.”

Stow was taken out of a medically induced coma over a week ago, and has since shown signs of some cognitive function, Los Angeles neurosurgeon Dr. Gabriel Zada said. Stow also has “some movement” in his arms and legs, the doctor said.

He was transferred last week from Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center to San Francisco General and Trauma Center, bringing him closer to his home, Zada said.

Stow has been able to open his eyes in recent days — a positive sign, said his mother, even though he still can’t focus and is not looking around.

His children know about their father’s condition, but still haven’t seen him in the hospital, Stow’s sister, Bonnie Stow, told HLN. The whole family, she said, is pulling for his recovery and hoping that any brain damage is minimal.

“I don’t think it’s a matter of him surviving,” said Bonnie Stow. “It’s just a matter of what he’ll be, if and when he wakes up.”

CNN’s Joe Sutton and CNN Radio’s Ninette Sosa contributed to this report.