Tuesday BP: Giants - Phillies series to be broadcast exclusively on Peacock

Hello and happy Tuesday.

On Monday it was announced that the San Francisco Giants upcoming series against the Philadelphia Phillies — which runs Friday through Sunday at Oracle Park — will be broadcast exclusively on Peacock, a streaming division of NBC.

In other words, you can’t watch this weekend’s game on NBC Sports Bay Area. Instead, you’ll have to watch it through Peacock, which you can download as an app, or find on your TV if you have Comcast or Xfinity.

Peacock is free — though there are paid versions, as well — so you can still watch the game. And it’s only for the two home markets, so if you live outside of the Bay Area or Philadelphia, you’ll still have to watch on MLB TV (though you’ll get the Peacock broadcast).

For these broadcasts the two broadcast teams are being combined. So you’ll get the Giants crew of Mike Krukow and Jon Miller as well as the Phillies crew of Jimmy Rollins and John Kruk.

Kind of odd. But still Giants baseball, so how bad can it be?

Don’t answer that.

Old, random MCC article for you to read

Madison Bumgarner doesn’t think much of Alex Guerrero (April 29, 2015 — Grant Brisbee)

Giants links

• Podcast: Roger Munter talks with Giants pitching prospect Caleb Kilian (There R Giants)
• Grant Brisbee on how the Giants latest offensive struggles are not due to regression (The Athletic, subscription required)
• Kerry Crowley on how the Giants quietly remade their bullpen, and how they could do it again (Mercury News)
• Mark W. Sanchez on how Braden Bishop feels that he’s with the Giants for a reason (KNBR)
• Steve Kroner on how the Giants and Gabe Kapler have been dealing with slumping bats (SF Chronicle)
• Eric Longenhagen and Kevin Goldstein have the Giants selecting a college pitcher in their latest mock draft (Fangraphs)
• Alex Didion looks at four bullpen arms the Giants could swing a trade for (NBC Sports Bay Area)

What time do the Giants play today?

The Giants play the Arizona Diamondbacks tonight at 6:45 p.m. PT.

Hope you all have a swell Tuesday.