Giants avoid sweep, drop last game to Nats
In the bottom of the ninth, with a runner in scoring position and a tie game, two different Giants hit the ball hard. It didn't work out. It's hard to get too violent about a game like that. There...
minor lines, 5/22/13
Wednesday highlight from the Giants' farm: Andrew Cain homered twice.AAA: Fresno lost to Oklahoma City 7-3Fresno: LF Francisco Peguero: 0 for 2, 2 BB, SO, SBFresno: SS Carter Jurica: 3 for 4, 2B,...
Giants avoid sweep, drop last game to Nats
In the bottom of the ninth, with a runner in scoring position and a tie game, two different Giants hit the ball hard. It didn't work out. It's hard to get too violent about a game like that. There...
minor lines, 5/22/13
Wednesday highlight from the Giants' farm: Andrew Cain homered twice.AAA: Fresno lost to Oklahoma City 7-3Fresno: LF Francisco Peguero: 0 for 2, 2 BB, SO, SBFresno: SS Carter Jurica: 3 for 4, 2B,...
Rafael Soriano is a dingus
And other assorted thoughts.
minor lines, 5/21/13
Tuesday highlight from the Giants' farm: Ty Blach had 11 K in 8.0 scoreless IP. Also notable, Carlos Teller had 5.0 scoreless IP.AAA: Fresno lost to Oklahoma City 15-2(after allowing five runs in...
Pablo Sandoval Beats Nationals In Extra Innings
Washington sequester fails to account for San Francisco animal menagerie, Giants win late, take series with chance to sweep.
Dodgers considering managerial change?
The Los Angeles Dodgers, after winning the division on Opening Day, have fallen on tough times. They're 18-25, and they've lost key contributors to injury. Juan Uribe is outhitting Matt Kemp. Luis...
Searching for Vogelsong's replacement
Barry Zito was injured in 2011, you know. You'll read a lot of talk about how the Giants haven't had a hurt pitcher since Trevor Wilson went on the DL with a pulled dimple, but it wasn't that long...
Giants rout Nationals in bittersweet win
When the Giants were on their way to scoring their fifth run, I already had the opener to the post-game thread in mind. It went like this: I would have been okay with a Giants loss if Vogelsong...
Ryan Vogelsong hit by pitch, fractures hand
Ryan Vogelsong was having his best start of the year, dang it. There's no good reason why that should make this worse -- as if another bad start would have made us say, "Smell you later and thanks...
minor lines, 5/20/13
Monday highlights from the Giants' farm: Gary Brown, Johnny Monell and Tony Abreu each homered as part of multi-hit games, and Austin Fleet allowed just 1 R in 6.0 IPAAA: Fresno defeated Oklahoma...
Bryce Harper and Buster Posey
This is Bryce Harper: This is Buster Posey: All major credit cards (and PayPal) accepted.
Nationals/Giants series preview
Here: That's how close the Giants were to playing the Nationals in the NLCS. If you want something adorable, revisit this thread to see for whom you were rooting. The poll showed the Cardinals...
The Giants and your subconscious
It's not enough that you have to deal with baseball three to five hours every day, your brain shovels more at you when you're sleeping. Let's talk each other through it.
minor lines, 5/19/13
Sunday highlights from the Giants' farm: Francisco Peguero homered and singled, four Richmond hitters combined for a two-hit shutout, and three Augusta hitters each homered while reaching base at...
Giants avoid triple play for 44th straight game
Ties franchise mark to start a season
GameThread
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Giants don't allow 15 runs, claim moral victory
Usually, these post-game ramblings are short-sighted affairs. Take Friday night, for example. Bruce Bochy left Madison Bumgarner in too long, and I wanted to yell at him like he told me the ending...
minor lines, 5/18/13
Saturday highlights from the Giants' farm: Mike Kickham allowed just an unearned run in 6.0 IP, and Johnny Monell homered while reaching base three times.AAA: Fresno defeated New Orleans 6-3Fresno:...
Saturdump of links
Pondering Cain’s release pointChris Quick slapped together some graphs, pretended to know what they meant, and passed it off as "research." And I can't believe I didn't think of it first! (j/k...
Giants throw balls all over Coors Field, lose 10-9
That game made me feel like I hit my head on a table. We're all dumber now. That game was seven hours, it was filled with stupid, and now we're all infected with stupid. The pitching was stupid....
The pitches they throw
Over at Getting Blanked, there's an interview with Tim Lincecum that's well worth your time. Lincecum talks with Drew Fairservice about his approach to pitching (Lincecum's, not Fairservice's,...
Giants winning despite awful rotation
Pitching was supposed to be their strength, but even without, the Giants just keep on winning.
Giants rally behind two-out, two-strike hits
Do you know how many comeback wins the 2011 Giants had? One. And that came after a court order from an activist judge. I'm not sure if that's entirely accurate, but it's close enough. The Giants...
