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 Umpire Refuses to Say Whether He Made the Right Call to End the Giants' Historic Season A checked swing? An actual swing? Giants fans across the Bay Area were beyond angry/sad/bummed/rageful after first-base umpire Gabe Morales made a controversial call to end Thursday night's winner-take-all Game 5 in the National League Division Series against the Dodgers.
Bay Area Sports Dodgers Force Game 5 at Oracle Park — Thursday's Gonna Be Nuts In SF It's being called the biggest game in the history of the 120-year-old rivalry between the Giants and the Dodgers, and it will be happening in San Francisco, under the lights at Oracle Park, in the hopefully waning days of a pandemic on Thursday night.
Bay Area Sports Giants Take Game 3 With 1 Run From Longoria, Could Clinch Pennant Spot Tonight The San Francisco Giants faced off against the Dodgers Monday in a near flawless night for both teams' defense, and one home run by Evan Longoria was all it took to hold off the Dodgers and head for a potentially decisive Game 4 on Tuesday in L.A.
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 Oracle Park Concessions Workers Walk Off Job; Full-Fledged Strike Over Hazard Pay and COVID Safety Could Be Coming Just as the Giants clinch a spot in the playoffs — and in an odd year no less! — workers at Oracle Park are demanding improvements in workplace safety and a pay raise, and around 200 of them briefly walked off the job Friday morning in one of their first actions.
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 Bay Bridge Series Kicks Off at Oracle Park and It's the Biggest Local Event Since Pandemic Began The SF Giants and the Oakland A's are repeating the time-honored tradition tonight of the Bay Bridge series, competing against each other in a set of three East Bay vs. West Bay games at Oracle Park.
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 SF Giants to Be First MLB Team to Display Pride Rainbow Colors on Uniforms For Saturday's home game against the Chicago Cubs at Oracle Park, the San Francisco Giants will sport LGBTQ Pride colors on their uniforms for the first time — and becoming the first team in Major League Baseball ever to recognize Pride Month in this way.
Bay Area Sports SF Giant Brandon Crawford Has An SF-Themed Fish Tank Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford’s tricked-out San Francisco-themed fish tank has created a splash hit on social media, after his Splash Hit on Wednesday night.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Giants' Home Opener Cleared to Have 9,200 In Attendance SF is allowing the Giants' home opener to have 22% capacity or 9,200 fans next week, the suspect in the homicide of a Santa Rosa homeless woman has been arrested, and supporters of DA Chesa Boudin have set up a PAC to fight his recall.
Bay Area Sports [Update] The Giants Are Expecting 9,200 Fans at Their Home Opener Next Week The San Francisco Giants are going to have 9,200 fans in the stands for their home opener against the Colorado Rockies on April 9, but everyone has to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test.
Bay Area Sports Giants Owner Charles Johnson Disavows QAnon Congresswoman, Says He's Asked for Campaign Donation to Be Returned Following news last week that one of the principal owners of the San Francisco Giants had donated campaign money to a Republican congresswoman from Colorado who has already proven herself to be a traitorous Trump-obsessed, conspiracy-peddling loon, there's been a reversal.
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 As Baseball Begins Its Weirdest Season Ever, Fox Is Testing Out Fake Crowd Sounds, CGI Fans In Stands Rather than let Major League teams play ball in front of empty stadiums on television, Fox says it will add virtual crowds, noise, and even a CGI "wave" to remind us just what a surreal year this year.
Bay Area Sports Giants' Gabe Kapler Becomes First MLB Manager To Take a Knee For Anthem Before their first exhibition game of the abbreviated 2020 season against the Oakland A's Monday night, multiple San Francisco Giants players and manager Gabe Kapler took a knee during the national anthem in recognition of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Bay Area Sports SF Giants and Oakland A's Will Play Two Pre-Season Exhibition Games Next Week The Bay Area will have some live sports to look at for the first time in four months starting next Monday, July 20!
Bay Area Sports Bye, Buster: Perhaps Wisely, Posey Says He's Opting Out Of the 2020 MLB Season The San Francisco Giants will be short a star catcher for their abbreviated, 60-game season beginning in two weeks, as Buster Posey just announced that he will be sitting this one out.
Bay Area Sports Giants Prospect Hunter Bishop Tests Positive For COVID-19 Just Prior To 'Summer Camp' Training One of the San Francisco Giants' top prospects for this upcoming, abbreviated 2020 season, 2019 first-round draft pick Hunter Bishop, has just tested positive for COVID-19 while in Arizona.
Bay Area Sports Giants Begin 'Spring' Training At Oracle Park Next Week With Cardboard Cut-Outs of Fans In the Stands The San Francisco Giants are set to begin an abbreviated, 60-game season next month, with a second iteration of "spring" training happening right here in the city at Oracle Park starting July 3.
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 Giants and A's Ticketholders May Be Getting Refunds Shortly Major League Baseball told its 30 teams on Tuesday that they can start issuing refunds to fans who bought tickets for the 2020 season as they see fit.
