Jean Machi
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2.6K8Giants get torched in Game 2, have a bullpen to sort out
Gregor Blanco started the game with a whale of an at-bat against Yordano Ventura that ended with a booming home run to right field. Another laugher seemed to be on the horizon, but these Giants will need to win their next three to clinch their first championship at home. Those concerns should be secondary anyway […]
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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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2.8K4Brewers take advantage of hanging breaking balls, trade deadline, defeat Giants 4-3
For a while, this looked like a night to write about Pablo Sandoval. Instead, it was a night that epitomized the most frustrating parts about this Giants team. Sandoval turned around an 0-2 fastball at the letters for a three-run home run in the sixth inning, tying the game at 3-3 and bringing 25-year-old heat merchant Jimmy […]
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2.9K1Brewers fans crushing Giants fans in All-Star balloting – will Giants get more than one All-Star?
Stuffing the ballot box is sooooo 2012. That’s the apparent mindset of Giants fans, who pissed everyone off a couple years back when they voted three Giants (Melky Cabrera, Buster Posey and Pablo Sandoval) into the National League starting lineup and propelled some other surprising candidates to gargantuan vote totals. Brandon Belt nearly got four million […]
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2.8K1Giants dispatch Twins with ease (OK, maybe it wasn’t that easy)
It was the Giants’ 30th win of the season, a 6-2 win over a nondescript American League team. Take a quick glance at the box score, and this one was a total cinch. No problem. But it wasn’t THAT easy. The Twins came into San Francisco after winning six of their previous seven games, and […]
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2.8K8Jean Machi goes HAM as Giants beat Pirates in 13-inning weirdathon
I’m going to go ahead and assume that really happened, because my dreams never last that long. The San Francisco Giants, who fell behind 8-2 at what we thought was the midway point of this game, tied the game at 9-9, fell behind 10-9, and eventually won 11-10 in the 13th inning. The comebacks were probably the […]
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3.6K6Buster Posey saves the day (with some help from Jean Machi)
Despite what we saw during Spring Training, Madison Bumgarner isn’t going to throw 230 perfect innings. The Giants aren’t going to win six Gold Gloves. But real baseball is back, and so is Buster Posey. Posey hit a bomb in the ninth inning. It wasn’t quite as ginormous as that shot he hit against Mat […]
