Bay Area Sports Buster Posey Now a Co-Owner of the Giants, Becomes First Ex-Giant To Buy a Stake In the Team The Giants’ former catcher and Hall of Fame-bound slugger will be a “Forever Giant” in a way no player ever has before, having just bought an ownership stake in the team.
Bay Area Sports Lights Go Down At Giants Game, Journey Sing-Along Ensues A lighting malfunction at Monday night’s Giants-Padres game delayed play for about 40 minutes, but a spontaneous mass-karaoke version of Journey’s “When the Lights Go Down in the City” broke out.
Bay Area Sports Hunter Pence To Be Inducted Into Giants' Wall of Fame In September On September 17, Hunter Pence will be honored on the Giant's Wall of Fame outside Oracle Park on King Street. Pence will be celebrated in an on-field ceremony during a series against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Bay Area Sports Giants Wheel and Deal on Trade Deadline, But Their Division Rivals Make One of the Biggest Moves In MLB History After weeks of wild speculation and agonizing among fans, superstar Juan Soto is headed to a California city named after a saint. No, it's not San Francisco, though the Giants will see plenty of the Dominican outfielder this season.
Bay Area Sports Momentum, Talk of Trades and Superstars: A Mid-Season Checkin With the San Francisco Giants With 91 games under their belts, and only, what, 206 remaining(?), the Giants have entered the All-Star break having gotten at least a little of their groove back.
Bay Area Sports The San Francisco Giants Are Going Through a Rough Patch. What's the Cure? The Giants have fallen to third place in the NL West, now behind the San Diego Padres and — gag — the Dodgers; San Francisco is 9.5 games behind LA. The Giants have lost five games in a row, and 11 out of the last 14. Just two weeks ago, they were 10 games over .500, but are now 40 and 38.
Bay Area Sports Fox Sports Refuses To Show ‘Jeopardy!’ Champ Amy Schneider Throwing First Pitch at Giants' Pride Game When openly trans 'Jeopardy!' champion Amy Schneider threw the first pitch for Saturday night’s Giants game, the Fox Sports Network played someone else’s first pitch instead — footage that was two days old.
Bay Area Sports Giants Roll Out ‘Flex Pricing’ to Try to Fill Seats at the Ballpark Would you be interested in “flex pricing” for lower-cost tickets to Giants games? It sounds great, but you’ll have to put down at least $500 for a crack at the cheaper seats.
Bay Area Sports Two Baseball Players — One of Them a Giant — Get Into a Fight Over Fantasy Football On Friday, the Cincinnati Reds' Tommy Pham was suspended for three games — or the entirety of the Giants/Reds' weekend series, which Cincinnati won 2 games to 1 — for slapping the San Francisco Giants' Joc Pederson in the face.
Bay Area Sports Otherwise Despicable LA Dodgers Will Join Giants in Wearing Pride Logos for ‘Pride Night’ Game In SF It’s believed that it will be the first major American sports game with both teams wearing LGBTQ+ Pride logos, when both the Dodgers and the Giants will sport Pride-ified logos on their hats and uniforms for their June 11 Pride Night game.
Bay Area Sports The San Francisco Giants Just Can't Quit Buster Posey There has been some talk about Buster Posey one day managing the Giants. For now, however, that seems to be more of a fan fantasy rather than something the Giants' former catcher has seriously considered.
Bay Area Sports Are the San Francisco Giants What Baseball Needs? Are the Giants, once again, going to defy all expectations? Is their identity forever going to be the high-achieving underdogs, the masters of making mediocrity into greatness, who are forever battling it out with their Daddy-Warbucks rivals to the south?
Bay Area Sports Giants' Alyssa Nakken Becomes First Female Coach to Take the Field in MLB History Assistant coach Alyssa Nakken took the field to coach first base, receiving a round of applause from the crowd to commemorate the first time a woman made an on-field appearance during a regular season Major League Baseball game.
Bay Area Sports Giants Season Preview: Once Again, No One Gives Us a Chance Except Us Your San Francisco Giants have their Home Opener Friday afternoon, and while the defending NL West champions are given little chance to repeat last year’s stunning success, Kapler and the Captain have other ideas.
Bay Area Sports The MLB Lockout Is Over! Giants Likely to Play Ball Starting April 8 We will still get a full 162-game season after all, as the MLB and the players’ union strike an unexpected and sudden tentative labor agreement, and the Giants' Home Opener looks likely to be April 8 against the Miami Marlins
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Deadline For Baseball Talks Extended Sen. Alex Padilla announced he tested positive for COVID-19, UC Berkeley lost its patent case over CRISPR technology, and the deadline for bargaining between Major League Baseball and its players' association has been extended until 5 p.m. today.
Bay Area Sports Giants Opening Day Looks Likely to Be Delayed, as MLB Lockout Hits Its ‘Doomsday’ Date In negotiations described as ‘millionaires versus billionaires,’ Major League Baseball says they’ll start canceling regular season games if there’s no deal by February 28. It is now February 28, and there is no deal.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Buster Posey Says Farewell, For Real The SF Board of Ed got Zoom-bombed again last night racial epithets and more, the Oceanwide Center property downtown was seized by creditors as collateral, and Buster Posey explains his decision to retire.
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.
