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A sellout crowd of 40,091 fans packed Oracle Park on Saturday to watch Bay FC make its San Francisco debut. The crowd was the largest in U.S. women’s professional soccer history, and for 96 minutes it carried the expansion club through a comeback attempt that fell just short in a 3-2 loss to the Washington Spirit.

The Spirit spoiled the result, but not quite the whole afternoon. Bay FC’s first match in San Francisco was a landmark, and a test of whether the city would embrace a team that has spent its first two seasons based in San Jose.

San Francisco at last

For Chris Egan and Libby Lee, who brought their nine- and seven-year-old daughters from B

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