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Giants Take Home Series Against Snakes (2 – 1); Bats Awaken Tuesday, Bullpen Game With Bench Bats Get Walkoff Wednesday; Can Still End Gauntlet of 17 Games Over .500
The Giants beat the Arizona Diamondbacks two games to one at Oracle Park this week, losing a cliffhanger on Monday night Giants 3, Diamondbacks 4; exploding for a massive score in a shutout on Tuesday Giants 13, D-backs 0; and … Continue reading
Posted in GauntletII, NLWest, pitchers, SCRBRDWatch, Series Recaps, walkoffs
Tagged Arizona, Austin, baseball, belt, Brandon, Brebbia, Buddy, bullpen, corner, Crawford, d-backs, Darin, Daunton, David, Diamondbacks, Estrada, Flores, francisco, Gabe, game, Giants, Gonzalez, Jake, Joc, John, Kapler, Kennedy, league, long, Luis, major, mark, Marte, McCarthy, Melancon, mike, mlb, national, Oracle, park, Pederson, Ruf, Sam, Sammy, san, SF, snakes, Thairo, Varsho, Wilmer, Winns, Yasztremski, Yaz
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Giants Handle Royals Series 2 – 1, End Home Stand 6 – 3 Including Sweep of Dodgers
The homestand had a rocky start as we fell to Colorado twice. The last game against the Rockies was atrocious, worst of the year so far for the Giants, who made four errors. Things looked bleak. Then the Giants swept … Continue reading
Posted in Series Recaps, SFG Off Day Posts
Tagged american, Andrew, baseball, Benintendi, Brandon, camilo, city, corner, Crawford, Darin, doval, Estrada, francisco, Gabe, Giants, Gonzalez, inter, interleague, Jake, Kansas, Kapler, LaStella, league, Llovera, Logan, long, Luis, major, Mauricio, McGee, mike, mlb, national, Royals, Ruf, Sam, Sammy, san, SF, Stella, Thairo, Tommy, Webb, Yastrzemski
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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 Look Sharp, Sweep Guardians in Cleveland; Thairo Estrada Explodes for Four RBI, Alex Wood Goes Five Scoreless, Belt Yards Two-Run Big Fly, Sammy Long Gets First Save
The day game of the series on Sunday was not, as hoped, warmer in Cleveland than the night games as temperatures hovered around 36 degrees, but the Giants, and especially Thairo Estrada, took to the sunshine. They scored eight runs, … Continue reading
Posted in bats, full games, Post Game Blasts, Road Trips, Series Recaps
Tagged Aaron, alex, Andres, baseball, Beede, Cevile, cleveland, corner, Estrada, Flores, francisco, Gabe, Giants, Gimenez, Guardians, Joc, Kapler, Konnor, league, Littell, long, major, mlb, national, Pederson, Pilkington, Sammy, san, SF, Thairo, tyler, Wilmer, Wood, Zach
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The Giants Run the Gauntlet (Game 1 of 16); Season-Defining Stretch, Game One, G-Men Jack Megill, Shutout New York Metropolitans
The Giants are playing sixteen games in sixteen days. They face the Mets (3) and Braves (3) on the road, the Brewers (4) and Dodgers (3) at home, and finally the Rocks (3), at altitiude, without a break. This gauntlet … Continue reading
Posted in Gauntlet, Mid Series Reports, Post Game Blasts, Road Trips, SCRBRDWatch
Tagged baseball, belt, Brandon, Buster, Crawford, four, francisco, Giants, homers, Jackson, Jay, Jr., LaMonte, league, long, major, Megill, Metropolitans, Mets, mlb, national, new, Posey, runs, Sammy, san, seven, Trevor, Wade, Williams, Yastrzemski, Yaz, york
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Why I’m Doing This and Who It’s For – apologies, explanations and a request for readers
Every day or at most every couple of days, I set aside my responsibilities as a father and all my work as an artist and a writer to create the entries on this blog. It costs me time and, arguably, … Continue reading
Bochy Ejected, Sanchez GS, as Giants Outlast Rockies, 12-10 in 11 Innings
Giants 12, Colorado 10 at Coors Field The wind and altitude collaborated to help the ball out of the yard at Coors Field, but most of the nine homers in this one were towers of power that traveled 420+ feet. … Continue reading
Posted in Post Game Blasts
Tagged 11th, affeldt, balk, baseball, belt, blackmon, bob, Brandon, Casilla, charlie, coors, davidson, derby, eleventh, field, francisco, game, Giants, grand, Hector, home, homers, jeremy, justin, long, michael, mlb, morneau, morse, rockies, run, runs, san, Sanchez, santiago, SF, slam, towering, tulowitzki
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Giants Baseball Corner 
The Milwaukee Game
The Giants played a single game against the Brewers in Milwaukee as a one-off due to the lockout. It was tacked on to their first road trip. It was also the best example of how the Giants new process of … Continue reading →