Brandon Belt
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What’s wrong with Tim Lincecum?
Tim Lincecum struck out the side in the first inning with a walk mixed in. In the second inning, after Daric Barton...
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Coming soon: Aubrey Huff, starting first baseman
The first question of this morning’s edition of “Disabled List Chat, with Bruch Bochy” was about how nice it must be to...
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Giants beat A’s 8-6 in an absurd Bay Bridge Series opener (and Affeldt gained an ab on the DL)
First, the San Francisco Giants are accumulating walks at an unbelievable clip this week. They’d never admit publicly that they’re encouraging patience...
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A Giants win unlike any other: patience, defense and run support for Cain
Those win-probability charts are all the rage these days. They’re generally based off far too many numbers, statistics and trends for one...
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Bruce Bochy: ‘I’ll continue to mix it up in that 2-hole’
Before the second of a 2-game series with the St. Louis Cardinals, San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy touched on a several...
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Walks on walks on walks … and a loss for the Giants
The San Francisco Giants made 3 errors in the same game for the seventh time this season. That didn’t help. The Giants...
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Blanco, Vogelsong (and Pill) keep the Giants above .500
Brett Pill went 2-for-4 and drove in a run to go up by 2 in the 8th, Ryan Vogelsong pitched 7 innings...
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So far, it’s been the Year of Cain
All spring, it was about Matt Cain. Sure, we were monitoring the progress of injured Giants like Buster Posey, Brian Wilson and...
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The San Francisco Giants and their supposed leadership void
With the San Francisco Giants unable to break free from their .500 prison, people are looking for answers. The manager creates each...
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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...
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How many strikeouts is enough? (14 … the answer is 14)
Matt Cain’s strikeouts reached double digits for the second time this season. The first was his near-perfect shutout in the home opener...
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Brandon Belt isn’t the No. 2 hitter today, but that could change
During Bruce Bochy’s pregame interview session, I asked the San Francisco Giants manager a question many people have today after looking at...
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Giants, at their low point of the season, turn to Madison Bumgarner
Bruce Bochy knows what people are saying about him. What they’re saying on Twitter, what KNBR callers say about him over 50,000...
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Giants aren’t exactly convincing Bochy that younger = better
As the San Francisco Giants staggered through a third straight loss to the Miami Marlins, the lack of anything resembling feistiness, exuberance...
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Bruce Bochy’s plan without Pablo Sandoval
It’s been a gray, gloomy morning at AT&T Park, marked with periods of light rain about an hour before first pitch. The...
