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3.8K1The San Francisco Giants’ vision of team chemistry
The term “chemistry” can mean just about anything when it comes to sports, depending on whom you ask. To some, it’s about a group of teammates who get along extraordinarily well, to the point where guys regularly hang out on road trips and play pranks on one another. To others, it’s a certain undefinable feeling […]
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2.7K13Looks like Vogelsong is heading to Houston, Giants competing with Yankees (among others) for Moncada
Update (11:11 pm EST, Jan. 21): Looks like all of those Vogey-to-Houston reports might turn out to be wrong. Sources: Vogelsong shifts course. No deal with #Astros. In serious discussions with #SFGiants. — Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) January 22, 2015 Time for a post full of Giants notes. Not a lot has gone on, but a lot […]
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4.5K27Five thoughts about new San Francisco Giants OF Nori Aoki
The Giants signed a free agent outfielder, and you can pretty well assume he’ll hit somewhere in the mid-high .280s. Oh, and he probably won’t hit many (any?) home runs. You last saw Norichika Aoki patrolling right field for Kansas City during the World Series. You might have seen him make funny faces, like, all the freaking […]
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A list of Giants players who’ll be in the World Series parade (which includes Barry Bonds)
There are slated to be 100 vehicles in tomorrow’s San Francisco Giants World Series victory parade, which starts at noon. The list of participants is subject to change, but here are the players who are scheduled to ride down Market Street at about 3 mph. The current players are going two to a car, except […]
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3.1K7Bumgarner still a World Series star as Giants rout Royals in Game 1
Here’s how you know that a World Series win came easy … fans were clamoring for Tim Lincecum in the eighth and ninth innings tonight. The San Francisco Giants are three wins away from their third championship in five years after a 7-1 win over the Kansas City Royals in Game 1 of the World Series. Tonight’s matchup of aces […]
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Giants take 2-1 lead on walk-off bunt, error (and I took photos)
What else can you say about a game like that? It’s a wonderful time to be in San Francisco. My days as a credentialed baseball reporter are over in 2014, so I waited until the last minute, “bought” a ticket on Stubhub (Rewards FanCode bucks really are the best), and walked down to AT&T Park. I […]
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3.1K15Four dingers, four stories: Giants lose a postseason game on the road, time to freak out!
I would’ve had to check under my couch for $100 bills if the Giants won Game 2 of the NLCS, which they did not. They lost 5-4 in the ninth inning of a tremendous baseball game that was probably seen by about 500,000 people, due to Fox using the NLCS to inflate a sort-of-new sports network. […]
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2.9K12Bumgarner succeeds where Kershaw couldn’t: St. Louis
The Giants spent Game 1 doing what they’ve been doing throughout the postseason. They pitched well, played close to perfect defense, and scored a few runs while leaving a ton of guys on base. They also won their seventh straight road postseason game, this time by a score of 3-0, and took a 1-0 lead in […]
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2.9K4Nationals avoid sweep with strong outing by Fister, poor throw by Bumgarner
The energy peaked before the game, during introductions and especially when WWE wrestler Daniel Bryan led the AT&T Park crowd in his trademark “YES! YES! YES!” chant. Then both teams went in opposite directions as Game 3 — which the Nationals won 4-1 to keep their season alive — progressed. The Giants weren’t doing enough offensively to assume […]
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Projecting the Giants postseason roster
Assuming the Giants make the postseason, here’s my roster projection. They’ll probably need to win a Wild Card “play-in” game against the Pirates just to make it to the NLDS, unless they somehow overtake the Dodgers. The Cubs aren’t helping the Giants in their series against the Dodgers so far, and the Giants can’t sleep […]
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3.4K1Giants run winning streak against Tigers to five games
The Giants are the hottest team in baseball, which seems weird considering they checked out of Wednesday’s game against the Rockies in the sixth inning. They smacked the Tigers around to the tune of a 6-0 lead, then it started raining. The rain lingered for almost three hours. Luckily for the Giants, the game wasn’t called. […]
