Matt Kemp
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4.1K2Now’s the time for the Giants to gain ground on the Dodgers (hey, stop laughing!)
If you feel bad about giving up on the Giants at around 2:30 pm on Saturday, don’t. The Phillies had a 5-1 lead in the fifth inning. Tim Hudson was already out of the game. The Giants somehow figured out ways to strand four base runners per inning. They were on their way to getting swept […]
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3.5K1Giants take 8-0 lead against Dodgers, don’t squander it
The day started off strangely for the Los Angeles Dodgers. It should’ve been nothing but happy times and smiling faces for the defending National West champs, who went into their home opener with a 4-1 record. But Yasiel Puig showed up late this morning, and he was replaced in the lineup by Matt Kemp. Kemp […]
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ZiPS Projections: the NL West hitters
Now that the start of the season is within view (some teams pitchers and catchers have already reported!!!) I thought it would be nice to take a little bit of time and take a look at how the teams in the NL West compare to each other. The ZiPS projections for the Giants came out […]
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Series Preview: A’s vs Dodgers
It has been a while but I am back with the newest edition of the A’s series preview. This time the A’s...
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Giants give Clayton Kershaw the 2-1 treatment
Last season, the score “2-1” became symbolic of all the San Francisco Giants’ problems. About 98% of that (completely accurate) perception of the team came from three of Clayton Kershaw’s five victories over the Giants coming in games that ended with that exact score. In September Kershaw led the Dodgers to 2-1 victories over the […]
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Giants vs. Dodgers rivalry takes another strange turn (hint: it involves beat writers)
We’ve had some fun with Henry Schulman’s Twitter timeline over the past year or so. Besides covering the San Francisco Giants for the Chronicle, Schulman also plays the role of “cranky beat writer” extremely well. In today’s prim, proper and politically correct media scene, Schulman’s ruminations on politics, airplane infants and noise pollution are not […]
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If the D-Backs clinch this weekend, Giants fans should just look away
What are you going to do when the inevitable happens? Sure, the Giants could sweep the Diamondbacks, but they couldn’t even take...
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Mark DeRosa may not be a bench player for long
It was a day game after two disappointing, offensively stagnant night games, but it was still awfully strange to turn on my...
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Giants offense tests Barry Zito again
Last night’s game had its moments, and the fact that the Giants lost wasn’t all that surprising given the pitching matchup. So...
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The best game and Tim Lincecum pitch of the year
It all started when Tim Lincecum decided that if he wasn’t going to get the win, or even have much of a...
