Brandon Belt
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3.2K6Giants are in surprisingly good shape, considering
The good news just keeps on coming for the San Francisco Giants. What’s good today? Casey McGehee is out of this morning’s lineup after grounding into his 12th double play last night in the Giants’ 11-2 throttling of the Reds. Sorry, I kid poor Casey, who I think will come out of this awful stretch […]
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3.0K7Heston hurls two-hitter, Giants break six-run barrier, Duffy drives in five
The Houston Astros have a lineup full of mashers. They’re actually hackers, if we’re throwing diplomacy out the window. While watching the Astros (who still lead the AL West by four games after losing 8-1 to the Giants), you halfway expect to see Rob Deer, Pete Incaviglia or even Dave Kingman dig into the box. […]
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2.7K7Giants notes: Who Pence and Ishikawa might replace … and is Vogey back?
Just like we can’t count the Giants out as a team, we’ve seen too many moments where Ryan Vogelsong pulled himself out of the baseball abyss to give up on him in April or May. That’s why, unlike several frustrated fans during his horrible start against the Dodgers when he allowed four homers, I didn’t […]
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2.9K9Hey, Tim Lincecum is interesting again
Who knows what it means from a guy who looked like the best pitcher in baseball for a month-long stretch a little less than a year ago, but when Tim Lincecum pitches well, you watch. Period. Lincecum has a scoreless streak that reached 15 innings with six shutout frames during the Giants’ 6-0 win over the […]
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2.9K9Good vibrations: Giants win Bumgarner vs. Kershaw showdown with Panik’s walk-off sac fly
The bottom of the ninth was so very, very Giants, the kind of walk-off win that would’ve seemed routine last April. Madison Bumgarner was good but he wasn’t perfect, San Francisco’s offense was opportunistic but hardly powerful, but it was all enough for a 3-2 win and the Giants’ first on-field celebration of the young season. […]
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2.9K8Giants lose another player, lose 7-6 to D-Backs
The good news is that the soul of this team hasn’t vanished. This is the same group of fiery, talented players that we remember from October, and they gave Arizona a scare after falling behind 7-4. The bad news is a lot of these players have already gotten injured, and the questions about their starting […]
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2015 San Francisco Giants preview
Now that we know what the 25-man roster looks like (for a week or two, anyway), we can let you know exactly how this season is going to go. First, here’s the roster. Pitchers (13) Jeremy Affeldt LHP Madison Bumgarner LHP Matt Cain RHP Santiago Casilla RHP Tim Hudson RHP George Kontos RHP Tim Lincecum RHP […]
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Sabean on why the Giants haven’t seriously considered playing Belt in LF
I asked San Francisco Giants general manager Brian Sabean a few questions on Friday, when he met with reporters for about a half hour in a suite at AT&T Park. The first was whether they had room in the budget for Cuban phenom Yoan Moncada. The third question was about team chemistry, which will be a part […]
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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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Royals crush Giants in Game 6 … gulp
In a World Series full of blowout games, this one blew the most. Bruce Bochy’s leash wasn’t quite short enough to stop Jake Peavy from giving up five runs in just an inning and a third, and the Giants were bludgeoned in Game 6 by the frightening score of 10-0. So this World Series will go […]
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3.5K10World Series legend Madison Bumgarner sends Giants to Kansas City up 3-2
“For some reason I keep getting real lucky in this time of year,” Madison Bumgarner told Fox’s Ken Rosenthal after pitching a four-hit shutout in Game 5 of the World Series. “So, I’ll take it.” That was after Bumgarner doffed his cap and thanked the crowd, who showered the 25-year-old ace with “M-V-P” chants after his […]
