Last week, the Giants acquired Carlos Beltran for their very best pitching prospect, Zack Wheeler, and promptly went on to beat the Phillies to complete a winning series of two out of three. A few people wondered if it was time to consider the possibility that they could catch the Phillies for home-field advantage throughout . . . → Read More: Giants don’t get into bullpens early or often enough
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Back on May 25, I wrote about the Giants’ inability to score via the home run. Unfortunately, you may not have read that piece because something horrible happened that night, something far more unfortunate than you not reading what I’d written. The Giants lost the game and their star catcher. And we lost our innocence. . . . → Read More: Division-favorite Giants need to be creative Now THIS is cool. (H/T to NotGraphs for alerting me to this.) Brandon Belt’s first career HR Pat Burrell playing soccer . . . → Read More: New Toy: MLB Now Offering Embeddable Vids Quick thought and then some links: after last night’s thrilling — or heart attack inducing — win over the Cardinals, one in which Nate Schierholtz had not one but two key hits, the Giants find themselves up 2-1 in a four game series against one of the better teams in the National League. Schierholtz always . . . → Read More: Link share: Thursday morning edition A tweet from Amy G before tonight’s game against the D-Backs: #sfgiants 5/11/11 lineup: Torres CF F. Sanchez 2B Huff 1B Posey C Ross RF Fontenot SS Rowand LF Tejada 3B J. Sanchez LHP With Andres Torres back in the lineup, let me be the first to scratch my head at Rowand’s inclusion into tonight’s . . . → Read More: Fleeting Rowand Thought (with graph!) I make fun of Bruce Bochy a lot, but there’s no way I’d actually want his job. The Giants have enough players of similar talent that just deciding who goes on the lineup card every night must be something of a headache. Happily, I am relieved from the responsibility of having my opinions make an . . . → Read More: Outfielder Sudoku Most of my blog posts are more like features or columns… or something. Humans are creatures of habit. This post will not be a feature or a column. This one will be different, likely a side effect of missing most of the games over the past week – aside from scrutinizing over the box scores and . . . → Read More: Belt, defense and other stuff I like it when the Giants win in Colorado. A couple of thoughts on tonight’s 8-1 win against the Rockies. — * Tim Linecum really pitched an excellent game. Forget the fact that he lost the no-hitter and the shutout in the 7th, he cruised for most of the night, keeping the Rockies’ hitters painfully . . . → Read More: Giants Score in Opener, Win 8-1 So, a 3:35 PM start, huh? Well, that was fun… can’t wait for round two tomorrow! There’s nothing quite like the extra-special way the Giants have lost to the Padres the past two seasons. Nothing quite like it. I was just sure they were going to right the ship and sweep the Padres out of . . . → Read More: Losing to the Padres The Giants gave the Dodgers a drubbing on Saturday afternoon, beating them 10-0 behind a what-we’ve-come-to-expect start from Matt Cain. It was a six-inning, four-leaf-clover charmed effort with only three strikeouts. Three strikeouts! What a fraud. Fortunately, his luck will run out in another 1,000 innings or so. Other than that, they looked (and smelled) . . . → Read More: Ugly game ends ugly weekend for Giants |
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