Bay Area Sports Two New York Baseball Fans File Suit Against MLB For Ticket Refunds; MLB the Show Premieres on TV The Major League Baseball season is officially still postponed, not canceled, so no one has talked about any refunds yet — and games still might get played to empty stadiums with ticketholders credited for next season.
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.
Arts & Entertainment Broadway Theaters, Disneyland Shut Down; SF Giants Delay Opening Day Social distancing measures hit the American entertainment and sports industries hard this week. And this is a very good thing, even though we are in uncharted territory both economically and societally.
Bay Area Sports Bumgarner Explains Move to Arizona: 'It's About Winning' The San Francisco Giants are offering kind tributes to 11-year veteran pitcher Madison Bumgarner, calling him a "forever Giant." But Bumgarner didn't exactly mince words in explaining why he signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks for 2020.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Giants Unveil Big Plans for Parking Lot Revamp The Santa Clara DA is seeking the public's help in finding a convicted child molester who is on the loose, Trump has posted over 1,800 ads on Facebook about the impeachment inquiry, and the Mill Valley Film Festival kicks off this week.
Bay Area Sports Giants Virtually Eliminated From Wild Card Race With Recent Skid With San Francisco's 4-2 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday afternoon, the G Men have all but fallen out of the NL Wild Card race. With 15 regular season games remaining in the 2019 campaign, the Giants currently reside 8.5 games out of the final playoff spot.
Arts & Entertainment Dave Matthews Show at Chase Center Will Coincide With Giants Game Tuesday Night Tomorrow night (Tuesday) will be the first test of what happens with Muni and traffic when there is both a Giants home game and a big concert at the Chase Center, as Dave Matthews Band arrives just as the Giants are playing the Pirates.
Bay Area Sports Giants and A's Set for Weekend Showdown in Oakland The San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics are set to finish up their annual Bay Bridge Series with a pair of weekend games to be played, beginning Saturday, at the Oakland Coliseum.
Bay Area Sports Giants Acquire Infielders Mauricio Dubon and Scooter Gennett, Trading Dyson and Pomeranz The Giants completed some big trades on Wednesday, dispatching four of the team's pitchers in exchange for some potentially better offensive players, and young talent.
Bay Area Sports Giants In Playoff Hunt Thanks to 17-4 Run Since June 29th, San Francisco owns a league-best 17-4 record, catapulting the once-middling G-Men from last in the NL West to second place, sitting just 3.5 games out of the final Wild Card spot.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Joe Panik, Brandon Crawford and Their Wives Recreate 'Friends' Opening Credits Three Giants players and the three women in their lives recreated the iconic opening credit sequence from Friends in a new video meant to promote "Friends Day" at Oracle Park, which is on August 5th.
Bay Area Sports Giants Can Feel Good About Their 5-3 Week vs. Dodgers, Padres, and Brewers The San Francisco Giants, mired in a season in which they appear destined to dwell in the NL West's cellar, showed signs of life on this past week's homestand. Winners of four of their last five, the Orange and Black enjoyed a successful 5-3 record in eight games at Oracle Park.
Bay Area Sports A Wild and Encouraging Few Days for the Giants After Three (!) Straight Wins Over the course of three days, the big league club rattled off three consecutive victories, the organization's top two prospects are together in San Jose once again, and Farhan Zaidi (president of baseball operations) completed the first two days (10 selections) of his inaugural Giants' MLB Draft.
Bay Area Sports Giants' Top 2 Prospects: Incredibly Talented, Returning From Injuries Catcher Joey Bart and outfielder Heliot Ramos, the San Francisco Giants' top two prospects (according to MLB.com), represent the next wave of young talent headed straight for Oracle Park.
Bay Area Sports For the Giants, the Rebuilding Effort Starts Now The San Francisco Giants are in the midst of a horrible stretch in which they have lost seven consecutive games. With their playoff hopes virtually non-existent, even at this relatively early stage in the season, how should the team's front office handle the remainder of the 2019 season?
Bay Area Sports Disastrous Early Season May Lead SF Giants to Some Tough Decisions After Wednesday night's 9-2 home loss to the Atlanta Braves, the San Francisco Giants have fallen to a pitiful 21-27 on the season — last place in the NL West — currently trailing the first-place LA Dodgers by 10 games.
Bay Area Sports Giants Rookie Pitcher Shaun Anderson Shines In MLB Debut vs. Blue Jays The San Francisco Giants called up one of their top pitching prospects, Shaun Anderson, from Triple-A Sacramento, to start Wednesday's game against the Toronto Blue Jays, and he helped bring the team a 4-3 win.
Bay Area Sports Newly Promoted Mac Williamson Drills a Homer as Giants Dominate Rockies 14-4 The San Francisco Giants put on an offensive show at Coors Field in Colorado Tuesday night, trouncing the Rockies 14-4. Madison Bumgarner picked up the win, holding Colorado's high-powered offense to three runs over six innings of work, striking out eight.
Bay Area Sports Attendance At Giants Games Takes Biggest Dip In Major League When it comes to trends in fan attendance, Major League Baseball is taking it on the chin. And the Giants just clocked in as having the biggest overall drop in attendance year over year.
Bay Area Sports Bumgarner's Strong Start, Posey's Walk-Off Power Giants Past Dodgers 2-1 After a demoralizing home-sweep, last weekend, at the hands of the shorthanded New York Yankees, the San Francisco Giants bounced back with a series win against the rival-Dodgers (2-1), capped off in style by a Buster Posey walk-off RBI single.
Bay Area Sports Giants Top Prospect Joey Bart Breaks Hand, Out 4 to 6 Weeks On Monday, the Giants' top prospect and last year's no. 2 overall MLB draft pick, Joey Bart, suffered a fractured left hand during an in-game incident.
Bay Area Sports Bumgarner, Giants Down Rox for Third Straight Win Less than 24 hours after their 18-inning marathon win, the San Francisco Giants, behind Ace Madison Bumgarner, dispatched the Colorado Rockies once again.
Bay Area Sports Giants Shoot Off 1 AM Fireworks After Going 18 Innings Against Rockies Many San Franciscans — but in particular those SoMa and Mission Bay residents near the ballpark who weren't out until last call — were jolted out of bed by the explosions of fireworks at 1 a.m. Saturday morning.
Bay Area Sports Samardzija Sensational as Giants Blank Rockies 1-0 Giants starting pitcher Jeff Samardzija had a rocky and injury-ridden 2018 season, often looking completely out of whack and overmatched. However, 2019 appears to be a completely different story.
Bay Area Sports Where Will the Offense Come From for the Giants This Season? Nobody said it would be easy for the Giants' offense this season. The organization, MLB experts, and fans alike all understood this team was entering the 2019 season with solid pitching and defense and a lackluster offense.
