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Category Archives: pitchers
Giants Step Up and Beat Buehler and Kershaw; Ruf Returns From Bereavement with Big Night; Kapler Manages Giants Bullpen to Dominance Over Bums
Wow! What a bounce back performance by the Giants! After that four-error game against the Rockies Thursday, the week ended with crisp defense, and the bullpen dialed-in. Thairo Estrada, who had two of those four errors on Thursday, was particularly … Continue reading
Posted in NLWest, pitchers, Post Game Blasts, Relief Pitching, SCRBRDWatch
Tagged angeles, baseball, Bill, Brebbia, bullpen, camilo, clayton, corner, Darin, dodgers, Dom, Dominic, doval, Estrada, francisco, Freddie, Freeman, Giants, Gonzalez, Jake, John, jose, Junis, kershaw, league, Leone, Littell, long, los, Luis, McGee, mlb, national, nemesis, nl, NLWest, rivalry, rivals, Sammy, san, SF, Thairo, west
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Who is Jake Junis? They Call him June Bug, and We Need Him All of June
With Disco on the 60-day DL and not due back until late June, the Giants now turn to 29-year-old, former Kansas City Royal, Jakob Benjamin Lee Junis, born and raised in Illinois, where he played baseball and basketball very well. … Continue reading
Giants Win Series 2 -1 in Colorado But Rare Implosion by Alvarez Costs Webb Victory and Giants Sweep
Jose Alvarez was very good last year and has been good this year as well. In his first ten appearances he gave up only one hit and one earned run – against the Padres. It was an insurance run added … Continue reading
Giants Lose Season Series to Cards 3 – 4; Logan Webb Rolls On, Jakob Junis Continues to Impress, and Carlos Rodón Lays an Egg on National TV
The Giants rolled into St. Louis hot, were chilled to zilch by a shutout and then lost a laugher, as they fell to the Cardinals two games to one and lost the season series. It was announced Friday morning that … Continue reading
The Legend of MadBum
I quit twitter in 2021 (@giantsbaseballc and @mtksf), but throughout my ten years on twitter I’d RT stories about Madison Bumgarner hashtag #TheLegendofMadBum. Scroll through those for some sweet memories – some of which aren’t included in this video I … Continue reading
Posted in Commemorations, Commentary, etiquette, flashbacks, pitchers, SFG Off Day Posts
Tagged #TheLegendofMadBum, baseball, bumgarner, corner, francisco, Giants, Kyle, league, Madbum, madison, major, mlb, national, san, SF
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first to 80 wins.
The Giants were the first to 40-, 50-, 60-, 70-, and now 80-wins this season as they won the Bay Bridge Series four games to two, closing out the Athletics with a comeback home run in the 8th inning of … Continue reading
Posted in pitchers, Post Game Blasts, Series Recaps
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Giants Win Six in a Row; B-Craw Gets 2-Year Extension; Kapler Uses an Opener for Fourth Time, Giants Bats Go Eerily Quiet for Fourth Time
The Giants won six in a row before losing to the Rockies last night. Gabe Kapler employed the Opener Strategy again. He started it last year for the benefit of Logan Webb. Without a fifth starter this year, Kapler has … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Mid Series Reports, NLWest, pitchers
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Giants Toss Another Game to Pirates 2 – 10, Tauchman Pitched! SF Remains Two Games Up in NL West, Gausman Struggling?
Kevin Gausman, the only sub-two-ERA pitcher in MLB – since deGrom has been deactivated – has not looked quite right since the All-Star Break. He and his family had a medical emergency immediately after the ASG, which we have been … Continue reading
Posted in midgame posts, NLWest, pitchers, PreGame GBCs
Tagged baseball, Brebbia, francisco, Gausman, John, Kevin, league, major, mlb, national, Pirates, pittsburgh, san, Taylor, west
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GBC FLASHBACK 2011: My Footage of Timmy’s 1,000th Strikeout and What Happened Next
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Giants Re-Take HR Lead in MLB (142) but Bullpen Collapse Culminates in Blown Five-Run Lead, Dodgers Walkoff 8-6
Ugh. This one was reminiscent of gut-wrenching losses we had in April and May, blown by the ‘pen. Alex Wood managed to make it through five innings, Kap turned it over to the parade of guys we’ve been using to … Continue reading
Posted in full games, Mid Series Reports, pitchers, Relief Pitching
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Giants Handle Cubs 3-1 but Sustain Injuries; Longo Out at least a Month; PLUS Sabermetrics/Injury/Trade Report
In the ninth inning of the last game of a series we had already won, in a collision between two excellent veteran infielders going hard for a ball that was of indefinable responsibility (probably because of all the shifting), we … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, GBC Readers, pitchers, Relief Pitching, Series Recaps, SFG Off Day Posts, steals
Tagged Brandon, Bruce, carcher, chicago, Crawford, cubs, Evan, francisco, Giants, giantsTagsbaseball, injury, knee, league, Longoria, major, Maxwell, mlb, national, report, san, SFG, trade
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Jolly Olive on YT Marvels at Giants Rotation
May 1st, this cat posted this about our rotation:
Heartbreak in Miami! Jake McGee’s First Blown Save and Giants Rally Twice Only to Fall in Game Two
Here was extra innings: Saturday night’s game was a crazy affair – here was first time the Giants fell behind and the rally of the 7th and here’s the blown save and here’s extra innings and the second rally … … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Mid Series Reports, midgame posts, pitchers, Relief Pitching, Road Trips
Tagged april, baseball, blown, francisco, game, Giants, Jake, league, Magee, marlins, miami, mlb, national, rally, san, save, SFG, two
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GBC Reader Volume 2, Issue 1: Torture While All Hail Madison Bumgarner
Opening day in Phoenix was a massive, thick-beamed wood rollercoaster ride built by Madison Bumgarner that went off the rails in such a familiar manner it felt sickening – or for the less dramatic and more experienced fans, like typical … Continue reading
Belated Apology to Jake Peavy
Wrote this ten days ago but didn’t have internet access to upload it. June 1st, 2016 Giants Baseball Corner I owe Jake Peavy an apology. Jake, on your 35th birthday you were a badass. I don’t know anyone who can … Continue reading
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Stay Up, Swan, Mind Your Delivery and Work with Staff on Maintenance to Avoid Blisters and Muscle Pulls
Alex “Swan” Cobb is 34 years old and has been in the majors since 2011, when he started for the Tampa Bay Rays, who had drafted him five years earlier. However he missed all of the ’15, ’16 and most … Continue reading →