Baseball’s a funny sport, which I suspect you already knew. The San Francisco Giants sent their ace to the mound on Tuesday, and emerged with a loss. The day before, they sent their Hall of Fame-bound veteran, submerged in one of the best stretches of his historically-great career to the bump, and lost.
Christian Koss and Heliot Ramos each drove in two runs in a five-run sixth inning, Jung Ho Lee collected three hits, including a home run, and the San Francisco Giants outlasted the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks 11-5 in the opener of a three-game series Monday night.
The San Francisco Giants are in the midst of one of the worst stretches of baseball we’ve seen this year. They’ve been the worst team in the league since acquiring Rafael Devers, and aside from a few bright moments, there hasn’t been much to cheer about.
The Giants announced a series of roster moves this evening, headlined by the return of third baseman Matt Chapman from the injured list. Infielder Sergio Alcantara was designated for assignment to make room for Chapman on the active roster.
There aren’t many rules to attending a Major League Baseball game, but one of them is to never interfere with a ball in play. One Arizona Diamondbacks fan didn’t get that memo — any of the four times it’s been delivered to him.
On Monday night, the Diamondbacks and Giants were locked in a tight ballgame in the top of the eighth inning with Arizona leading 3-2. Christian Koss lifted a fly ball to deep left-center that appeared to be a home run.
A surprise on both counts. It has been a surprising day of transactions for the San Francisco Giants. Buster Posey exercised Bob Melvin’s 2026 option. Wilmer Flores will be playing third base tonight, and that’s because Christian Koss had to go on the injured list with a hamstring strain.
The San Francisco Giants (44-35) currently occupy the second of three National League Wild Card slots and are only four and half games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL West race, giving their fans plenty to celebrate after back-to-back losing seasons.
Giants make a game that had no business being interesting interesting...and still lose The moment is finding Christian Koss. Bases loaded on Tuesday, he delivered a game changing grand slam.
A big win deserves a bad pun. It’s impossible to draw up the blueprint for the perfect win for the moment. Impossible, yes, because you can’t script a baseball game (or at least you can’t expect it to follow the script; by all means, write away).
Sweep x2 The biggest miss of the afternoon goes to Christian Koss. It didn’t come with a bat in his hand, or a glove either — but with a Powerade cooler.
Christian Koss was a surprise addition to the Giants 26-man roster. One game into his major league career, he is looking to stick around. At 27 years old, Koss isn’t your usual rookie.
The Giants announced that they’ve selected infielder Christian Koss onto the 40-man roster. He’ll break camp and will make his major league debut once he gets into a game.
The Red Sox traded minor-league infielder Christian Koss to the Giants on Wednesday, per the club’s MLB.com transactions log. As far as a return is concerned, it was presumably for cash considerations.