Brandon Crawford injury: Giants shortstop out with sprained fingers, plus Wednesday’s lineup
Brandon Crawford is out of the Giants’ lineup Wednesday after spraining his right index and middle fingers in the fourth inning of Tuesday’s game against San Diego. The shortstop was injured while sliding into second base, and was called out to add insult to injury. Joaquin Arias slid over from third and Nick Noonan entered the game, batting in Crawford’s No. 6 spot. Noonan...
SF Giants Rumors: It Would Be A Dream Come True For Bud Norris To Play For The Giants
(AP Photo/Dave Einsel)
Jon Paul Morosi of FoxSports.com mentions that the non-waiver trade deadline is six weeks away. Astros starting pitcher Bud Norris doesn’t have a no-trade clause so that means he’s likely going to be on the move somewhere.
“You have to be informed,” Norris said. “I don’t think you want to be blindsided by it. One day, you come to the park and boom...
Living Legend: A Conversation with Will Clark
I was born and raised in the Bay Area. My dad took me to my first San Francisco Giants game when I was three months old, where I sat quietly through the entire thing, already transfixed with the game of baseball – the fluidity, the hustle, the fact that the team was more important than the individual. All of these things endeared baseball to me, and no one player exemplified those...
Video: Young Giants fan wears panda suit, gets souvenir
Your browser does not support iframes.Sometimes a foul ball lands in your lap and sometimes you just have to do something adorable enough to earn it.This young San Francisco Giants fan went with the latter strategy to secure a foul ball in Tuesday night's game against the San Diego Padres.Watch as the Pablo Sandoval supporter butters up the elderly ball boy into giving her a...
Perez leads the comeback as Giants beat the Padres 5-4, jump into second place in the West
Matt Cain turned in another quality start, and the Giants collected their 18th comeback win of the season, as they defeated the San Diego Padres 5-4 to take the second game of the series.
Gregor Blanco, who’s provided San Francisco with some nice pop at the lead-off spot, walked to start the bottom of the first and promptly stole second base. In his first game back since getting...
Giants' Brandon Crawford sprains two fingers on one slide
The San Francisco Giants had to play a portion of their win over the San Diego Padres last night without Brandon Crawford. Crawford slid into second base in the second inning and suffered sprains to his right index and middle fingers. The injury was significant enough for him to be forced from the game.
According to Andrew Owens of MLB.com, Crawford will likely sit out tonight...
Can Juan Perez Keep His Spot in San Francisco?
If you’re thinking about joining the Juan Perez bandwagon, go ahead and jump on – it’s all aboard at this point.
The 26-year-old rookie has made a strong impression over just seven games in the major leagues, both at the plate and on the field. Perez is batting .421 (8-for-19) with a walk and three RBI, the last of which was the eighth-inning go ahead run on Tuesday against...
SF Giants lineup: Scutaro returns, Perez gets another start
Giants second baseman Marco Scutaro returns to the lineup after missing a week with “mallet finger”. Scoots was struck by a pitch in Pittsburgh, sustaining ligament damage in his pinky finger. The Giants elected to not put their second baseman under the knife and therefore on the disabled list, choosing to let the veteran play through the pain. Tony Abreu and Nick Noonan had...
Company to produce Sergio Romo ice cream to support immigration reform
San Francisco Giants closer Sergio Romo and Three Twins Ice Cream have agreed to a contract to bring "Sergio Romo's Mexican Chocolate" to the world.The ice cream's tagline is "It Only Tastes Illegal" and all proceeds will go to help enact immigration reform.The company's founder Neal Gottlieb said he got the inspiration for the tasty treat after seeing...
Shark Nearly Drowns In McCovey Cove During Giants Game
The San Francisco Giants know you won’t spend the entire time at AT&T Park shelling out cash for overpriced b…
SF Giants Rumors: Giants Close To Inking Christian Arroyo
With their first pick (25th overall) in the 2013 MLB Draft, the San Francisco Giants selected high school shortstop Christian Arroyo. Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle says Arroyo is in Arizona to get his physical, which means he’s on the verge of signing.
The 25th slot in the draft should receive around $1.86 million to sign, but Schulman thinks the Giants might have...
It’s Zack Wheeler Time
It’s the moment San Francisco Giants fans have dreaded since that fateful day in 2011: Right-handed pitching prospect Zack Wheeler has been promoted to the big leagues and will make his first start of his MLB career on Tuesday evening.
On July 28, 2011, the hurler became the property of the New York Mets when the Giants traded the sixth overall pick of the 2009 amateur draft during...
IN ENEMY TERRITORY
Fifth-grader's graduation speech about Dodgers
Tweet The Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants have one of the most storied rivalries in baseball. There’s no doubt that there is genuine disdain for one another from both parties. A fifth grader named Casey that lives in San Francisco has the unwelcomed task of being a Dodgers fan in that city. [...]
WEIRD STUFF
Panda, shark and angel race in McCovey Cove
The Washington Nationals have their presidents race, the Milwaukee Brewers host a sausage sprint and the San Francisco Giants well ... they have their panda, shark and angel paddle board regatta. McCovey Cove outside AT&T Park has seen its share of oddities — including hot dog kayaks and UFOs — but on Monday night, there was a heated paddle board race between that...
Trade target of the day: Cliff Lee
(April 30, 2013 – Source: Jason Miller/Getty Images North America)
With June wrapping up soon and July on the way, I’ll be looking into some trade targets and rumors surrounding the Giants and A’s until they actually do (or do not) happen.
Cliff Lee is having quite the season.The Giants are short a starting pitcher. Hey, perfect!
This is what I’m assuming most fans are thinking...
How many Giants will end up playing in the 2013 All-Star Game?
As of today, Giants catcher Buster Posey and third baseman Pablo Sandoval still lead their respective positions in voting for the 2013 All-Star Game, which will be held on Tuesday, July 16 at Citi Field in New York.
The National League squad could boast even more of your favorite Giants, as the latest round of voting has shortstop Brandon Crawford and second baseman Marco Scutaro...
Giants' Vogelsong to have hand re-examined Tuesday
Giants right-hander Ryan Vogelsong will have his surgically repaired pitching hand re-examined Tuesday with the hope of taking another step in his recovery.
Vogelsong broke two bones in his right pinkie area and also dislocated a knuckle in the hand on a swing May 20 and underwent surgery the next day. He had five pins inserted in his hand during the procedure at Stanford, performed...
SF Giants lineup: Posey sits against red-hot Padres
Buster Posey gets a full day of rest Monday after playing in all nine games of the Giants’ recent road trip. The reigning MVP caught eight of those games, spending Saturday’s game at first base. Posey collected 15 hits on the trip, raising his 2013 batting line to .316/.390/.515. His .905 OPS is tops among MLB catchers and seventh among all position players in the National League...
Gattis Gets Start Against Mets
For only the second time in the past seven games, Braves rookie Evan Gattis will get a start. Gattis will bat fifth and catch against the New York Mets and their starter, Dillon Gee, Monday night. Gattis did not start a game in the just completed weekend series against the San Francisco Giants. His last start was five days ago against the Padres in San Diego. Despite winning...
SF Giants Blogs Around The Web: Weird Half Inning, Bench, Bud Norris, Etc.
A comprehensive breakdown of the San Francisco Giants‘ 2013 draft picks from Lunatic Fringe.
A close look at the “Weirdest half inning in the history of the game” from Thursday’s game against the Pirates from Miracle At Coogan’s Bluff.
A look at how things could actually get worse for the Giants in 2013 from TheGiantsCove.com.
An examination of the Giants’ bench...
San Francisco Giants must take advantage of remaining June schedule
If there’s one word that can be used to describe the San Francisco Giants season thus far, it’s frustration. The club has struggled to establish consistency, lacking any sort of championship identity.
The once vaunted pitching rotation is average at best, limping by from start to start. Matt Cain has been maddeningly unpredictable, seemingly incapable of stringing together back...
Giants' Angel Pagan declines option to have surgery on hamstring
Angel Pagan has been battling a hamstring strain for weeks now. He was finally placed on the disabled list only recently after the San Fraincisco Giants continued to hope the issue would work itself out. Now, as Pagan is recovering he has been given the option of surgery to repair the hamstring. He declined that option and instead elected for a more conservative procedure...
All-Star Season, A Little Early
That’s right, tomorrow (Tuesday the 18th) is the California-Carolina League All-Star Game. Yep, I’m going. And you can, too.
I’ve gone to a few of these minor league All-Star Games. The California and Carolina League take turns hosting, and I’ve attended the last two times they were on the west coast, in Stockton and Modesto. I also attended the last minor league...
Braves Blank Giants 3-0, Win Series
If you remember back to his last start, you will remember that Julio Teheran was not too impressive. He did not continue that trend on Sunday night. Teheran was sharp as he and 3 other Braves pitchers shut out the Giants, 3-0. The Braves got on the board early against the Giants. Andrelton Simmons was on 2nd when a Freddie Freeman single allowed him to streak around 3rd base...
Lincecum the tough-luck loser as Giants are blanked by Braves
Despite a gritty performance by Tim Lincecum, the Atlanta Braves capitalized on every Giants mistake, and San Francisco fell to the Braves 3-0.
The Braves drew first blood against Lincecum. After Andrelton Simmons walked to lead off the game and stole second, Freddie Freeman brought him home with a two-out RBI single to give Atlanta an early 1-0 lead. Lincecum also walked the lead...
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