Bay Area Sports Buster Posey Set to Announce His Retirement After 12 Seasons With the Giants Posey instantly goes from “Giants catcher” to “first-ballot Hall of Famer,” as sources say he will announce his retirement Thursday.
Bay Area Sports Giants and Dodgers Face Off Tonight for Game 3, Announcers Likely to Overuse the Term ‘Pivotal’ It’s Max Scherzer night (and Jon Miller’s birthday!) as the Giants resume the series in Los Angeles, and while Game 3 often predicts the NLDS outcome, these Giants have a winning record at Dodger Stadium this season.
Bay Area Sports Giants’ Home Run Leader Brandon Belt Fractures Thumb, Leaving His Postseason In Question Some media outlets are reporting Brandon Belt's injury as a broken thumb, but even with just a fracture he is certainly out for the six remaining games of the regular season — but he's possibly out for the playoffs, too.
Bay Area Sports Giants Snap Four-Game Losing Streak to Tie Dodgers, Setting Up Intense Series at Oracle It's going to feel like playoff baseball, as the Giants and Dodgers head in this weekend's three-game series tied for the best record in baseball, for their last series of the regular season.
Bay Area Sports Giants’ New ‘Fog’ Uniforms Drawing Karl-loads of Criticism A creamsicle-orange makeover and a fog gradient are supposed to make fans want the new Giants uniforms that no one asked for, but critics say Nike 'mist' the point with these new alternate home-game outfits.
Bay Area Sports Giants Shockingly the Best Team in Baseball One-Third Into the Season This wasn’t supposed to happen, but the defending champion Dodgers and star-studded Padres trail your San Francisco Giants in the standings — as does every other team in Major League Baseball.
Bay Area Sports U Mad, Bum? Madison Bumgarner Returns to SF Saturday, as an Arizona Diamondback Madison Bumgarner left the Giants in December for $85 million, saying “It’s all about winning.” He hasn’t won a game since, but will try again Saturday at Oracle Park.
Bay Area Sports MLB Owners Unveil Plan to Bring Back Baseball July 4th, But Players Skeptical Under the proposal, the Giants could be playing here at Oracle Park, but of course without fans in the stands.
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 Aubrey Huff Called Out of Giants’ Reunion After Umpteenth Sexist Tirade The inventor of the ‘rally thong’ has been hitting the #MAGA rhetoric hard lately, and the Giants have disinvited him from the 10-year reunion of the 2010 World Champion team.
Arts & Entertainment History: Donald Trump Tried To Buy The SF Giants Back In 1985 If you thought the San Francisco Giants 2010 world championship season was “Torture,” wait ‘til you contemplate an alternate history that kind-of almost came to pass. Local hardball blog McCovey Chronicles tags a
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 Play Ball! Giants Spring Training Games Start Today, And Madison Bumgarner Shaved! The crack of the bat, the smell of the grass and all your favorite baseball clichés go back into effect today when the San Francisco Giants start their 2016 Cactus League games. Baseball
SF News Mission Rock Developments Not In Good Shape For Potential Sea Level Rise With 74 percent of voters in support, Proposition D won big in November's election. The passing of the measure, which allows for a massive increase in the allowable height for the future Mission
SF News Zito and Hudson Face Off Saturday in Historic Bay Area Bout The Giants and A's complete their inter-league schedule this weekend with a symbolic bow to the last 15 years of Bay Area baseball history. Saturday’s A’s-Giants pitching matchup will reunite Tim
Arts & Entertainment Video: Meet The Man Who Invented The Wave At A 1981 A's Game Like it does when performed at a ballgame, the wave has to start somewhere. And so it did in Oakland with "Krazy George," the professional fan and cheerleader who concocted the move for
SF News Strike: No Golden Gate Ferry Tomorrow, Including During Giants Game Marin-based commuters and fans planning to travel to tomorrow's Giants game via the scenic Golden Gate Ferry need to make other plans: The boats have struck out. Fresh from pretending not to watch
Arts & Entertainment Watch Hunter Pence Play Video Games...For Two Hours Have you ever been in a relationship with someone who liked to play video games? Did you enjoy hearing them make references to things like "The Coin", "Bananas," and "King Mukla" (see: "Hearthstone:
Arts & Entertainment President Obama Finally Addresses Alleged Torture (Of S.F. Giants Fans) Fans of the San Francisco Giants love to talk about their frustrating relationship with our home team as "torture." It would be cliché if only it weren't true. But you know who hasn't
SF News Bustin' Verlander: Giants Take Game One, 8-3 Detroit ace Justin Verlander lasted all of four innings on the mound in Game 1 of the World Series in San Francisco Monday night. Pablo Sandoval started the Verlander abuse early on with
SF News Giants Throw First No-Hitter in 33 Years Former wallflower Jonathan Sanchez, a 26-year-old left-hander who, according to SF Chron, "was the personification of pitching promise unfulfilled," pitched the SF Giants first no-hitter game in 33 years on Friday night. Sanchez,
SF News Barry Bonds: It's A Friggin' Conspiracy! MurrayChass.com broke the story: "I am convinced that Major League Baseball will never let him put on a uniform ever again," said Bonds' agent, Jeff Borris. Bonds did not play this year.
SF News The Crazy Crab Revolution Will Be Televised. Tonight Now who in the hell, you might be asking, is Crazy Crab? Back in the dark days of 1984, Giants management wanted to create a mascot of their very own but after doing
SF News I Love the First Half of the Giants Season The team has also given Giants fans' a few treats to go along with their not-as-bad-as-expected-ness. There is, for instance, the ascendance of Timmy Lincecum to Pitching God and SI Cover Boy. Then
SF News It's Got to be the Morning After -A's 10 Tigers 2- The A's finished up a sweep of the bottom Tigers with yesterday's victory and, yes, go A's! but we have to admit to feeling a bit blue about the
