SF News Photo of SF Giants Player in New Official Uniform (And See-Through Pants) Goes Viral on Social Media A baseball reporter shared a picture of SF Giants' Casey Schmitt wearing the new MLB uniform on Thursday, and it left little to the imagination.
Bay Area Sports The Newly Formed Oakland Ballers Will Renovate and Play Ball at West Oakland’s Raimondi Field Oakland is getting a new minor league baseball team called the Oakland Ballers (or “The B’s”). They just announced they’ll be playing at Raimondi Field in West Oakland, and spiffing the place up with a $1.6 million renovation.
Bay Area Sports Las Vegas Mayor Comes Out Swinging Against the Idea of the A’s Moving to Vegas In a stunning podcast interview published today, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman seemed to square up against the A’s moving to Las Vegas, saying their proposed stadium site “doesn’t make sense,” and “they’ve got to figure out a way to stay in Oakland.”
Bay Area Sports The A's Could End Up Sharing Oracle Park With the Giants In 2025 Well this would be odd. It looks like the A's management have come up with a shortlist of possibilities for what happens when their lease runs out at the Oakland Coliseum in 2024, and one of them is temporarily moving to San Francisco.
Bay Area Sports MLB Mulls Bringing Back Baseball, And What That Might Look Like There would be no fans in the stands, and under the “Arizona-Florida plan,” the Giants and A’s would be in the same division, and we would never play the Dodgers.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Backs Off A’s Stadium Lawsuit, Jack London Ballpark Plan Back On Track The umpteenth attempt to build a new Oakland A’s ballpark has revolved its latest setback, and the team will not threaten to move to Las Vegas again for at least another six months.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best San Francisco Bars for Watching the World Series Game One of the World Series is tonight, so SFist is stepping up to the plate with a postseason roster of our favorite sports bars where you can watch the Fall Classic -- following the schadenfreude that came with the Dodgers already having melted down.
Bay Area Sports MLB Vaguely Threatens To Move A’s To Las Vegas If Oakland Doesn’t Drop Lawsuit It’s kind of a troll move with the Raiders already heading for Las Vegas, but the commissioner of Major League Baseball says the same could happen to the A’s.
SF News Rookie A's Catcher Bruce Maxwell Becomes First MLB Player To Take A Knee For National Anthem From the @sfchronicle’s Santiago Mejia, here is A’s rookie Bruce Maxwell becoming the first MLB player to take a knee for the anthem: pic.twitter.com/q8QVY9hW15— Susan Slusser (@susanslusser) September
Arts & Entertainment Oakland A's Choose A New Stadium Site (Again) This Time Near Lake Merritt The Oakland Athletics no longer rank dead last in Major League Baseball attendance. They now rank second-to-dead last, according to the latest Major League Baseball attendance report. The Oakland A’s are garbage.
Arts & Entertainment Multiple GIFs, Photos And Video Show Hunter Strickland And Bryce Harper's Bench-Clearing Brawl The Washington Nationals' Bryce Harper was not having it when Giants pitcher Hunter Strickland hit him with his first pitch during the eighth inning of a game at AT&T Park on
Arts & Entertainment The Giants Won A Game After 17 Innings Thanks To Buster Posey It took 17 yes, 17 innings to score a winning home run at AT&T Park last night, and it took Buster Posey to hit it. Scoring the winning, walk-off homer to
Arts & Entertainment Giants Struggling As Madison Bumgarner And Denard Span Land On Injured List Recently injured catcher Buster Posey was seen in an unfamiliar position Sunday as the Giants faced off in yet another disappointing game against the Denver Rockies: first baseman. As CSN Bay Area noted,
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Buster Posey Beaning By Fastball Mars An Otherwise Bright Giants Opener The Giants won their home opener Monday against the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-1, but not before young starting pitcher Taijuan Walker threw a 94-mph fastball that hit star player Buster Posey square on the
Arts & Entertainment The 'Hamilton' Cast Is At The Giants Home Opener And The Team Made These Jerseys For them The Giants, who are off to a slow 2 and 5 start this season, are pulling out all the stops for their home opener this afternoon. One group of fans is not throwing
Arts & Entertainment A Giants Season Preview To Convince You They Will Win the World Series We stopped believin’ in the San Francisco Giants’ even-year championship magic on a heart-wrenching night last October. So all this faith, numerology, and baseball superstition regarding odd-numbered years being the Giants’ “off years”
SF News President Pardons Giants Hall Of Famer Willie McCovey Giants great Willie McCovey had a spotless record on the field — 521 home runs, 231 of them in Candlestick Park — and now he can say the same of his record off it. The
Arts & Entertainment Sorry Everybody: Cubs Eliminate Giants From Playoffs With 9th Inning Rally It was a result that defied the mystical logic of even-year World Series wins that's become dogma for San Francisco Giants fans. Last night at AT&T Park, the home team lost
SF News BeliEVEN: Giants Beat Mets In Do Or Die Wild Card Game Silencing all the skeptics, the Giants last night beat the New York Mets in a dramatic, mostly scoreless game with season-ending stakes. And boy, did they do it with style. Ace pitcher Madison
Arts & Entertainment Mayors Lee, De Blasio Make Twitter Bet On Giants Vs. Mets Wild Card Game The stakes for tonight's MLB Wild Card game between the San Francisco Giants and the New York Mets just got way higher. Okay, not really. Still, civic pride is now on the line
Arts & Entertainment In Even-Year Fashion, Giants Roar Back To Life And Clinch Wild Card Spot Many, many fans had written off the Giants weeks ago that is until they swept the top-ranked LA Dodgers in their final regular season series Sunday. Continuing a tradition of even-year nail-biters that
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Man Runs Onto Field During Giants Game, Angel Pagan Tackles Him Epic footage of the night. @SFGiants #respectPagan pic.twitter.com/s3taWXuUiJ— Eric OConnor (@ericoconnor22) October 1, 2016 Don't. Mess. With. Pagan. A young man went running onto the field during the Giants-Dodgers game
SF News Dodgers Mock Giants' Pitcher After He Repeatedly Yells 'Don't Look At Me' #PuigYourFriend #DontLookAtMe 👀 #Puignotlookingatyou 🙈 @JDL_87 @Adrian_ElTitan pic.twitter.com/2r1JULNyMK— Yasiel Puig (@YasielPuig) September 20, 2016 Monday night's Giants game against the Dodgers was embarrassing for a host of reasons: the team's
SF News Giants Tweet, Then Delete, Unintentionally Anti-Semitic Slur As the Giants's playoff chances continue to dwindle, the bullpen at last night's game against the Dodgers wasn't the only part of the team raising eyebrows in shock and dropping jaws in disbelief.
Arts & Entertainment Giants Erect Statue to Gaylord Perry, Baseball's Most Beloved Cheater The Donald Trump statue and Tony Bennett statue were not the only new, chiseled sculptures unveiled in San Francisco last week. The San Francisco Giants unveiled a new statue Saturday of their Hall