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Rain, Ray, and homers: the story of a 2-day victory
The San Francisco Giants’ 7-2 victory over the Atlanta Braves on Wednesday was a story of two games. No, literally. A story of two games, played on two days. Two games that the Giants won, resulting in — stay with me — one game that the Giants won. It began on Tuesday night when, against […]
Wednesday BP/Gamethread: Giants @ Braves
Good morning, San Francisco Giants fans. Yesterday’s game against the Atlanta Braves was postponed in between the top and the bottom of the second inning, and will kick off again today at 11:00 a.m. PT, as Game 1 of a doubleheader. San Francisco leads Atlanta 3-2. The original game will proceed as scheduled, at 4:15 […]
Giants vs. Braves postponed, doubleheader scheduled for Wednesday
There were many who thought that Tuesday’s scheduled game between the San Francisco Giants and Atlanta Braves would be postponed before it even began. And now, those people can say it should have been. Despite pouring rain, the teams started their game on time. In between the top and bottom halves of the second inning […]
Giants Minor League Baseball roundup, June 12-15: Reggie Crawford makes a surprise return
Another busy weekend of San Francisco Giants Minor League Baseball! Let’s quickly cover the games from Friday through Monday. Link to the 2026 McCovey Chronicles Community Prospect List (CPL) All listed positions in the roundup are the position played in that particular game. News The big news is that the Giants sent Reggie Crawford to […]
6/16 Gamethread: Giants @ Braves
The San Francisco Giants begin a three-game series against the Atlanta Braves this afternoon. Taking the mound for the Giants will be right-hander Adrian Houser, who enters today’s game with a 5.54 ERA, 5.18 FIP, with 46 strikeouts to 24 walks in 65 innings pitched. His last start was in the Giants’ 6-3 loss to […]
The Giants are open to purging their roster
The industry is buzzing over the possibility that the San Francisco Giants might hold a fire sale for their 2026 roster. I’ve already ranked the top 10 trade chips the Giants have, but yesterday, we got some actual names bandied about via informed rumormongering from Ken Rosenthal for The Athletic in a piece with the […]
Series Preview: Giants travel to God’s country to get swept probably
The players’ protest of Pride Night reminded me of country musician Morgan Wallen walking off of the Saturday Night Live set and posting to social media “Get me to God’s country.” It was such an odd protest, but it did the task of 1) informing me of Morgan Wallen’s existence (and I don’t claim that […]
Tuesday BP: Taking Action
Good morning, baseball fans! As most of you know, multiple members of the San Francisco Giants decided to deface their uniforms on Friday in protest of the team’s Pride Night. I wrote my initial thoughts for Sunday’s BP post, but now it’s time for us to move forward and take action. I’ve seen accounts from […]
MLB sends warning letter to three Giants relievers for their anti-Pride Night protest
Major League Baseball has weighed in on the trademark dispute that has been brewing between American evangelicals and the rest of the world for the better part of the 21st century over the “meaning” of a rainbow. On Friday, a trio of Giants relievers defaced their uniforms in support of the evangelical’s “originalist” interpretation of […]
Rafael Devers won’t get much better than this
Oh well. You win some, you lose some. Or, in the Giants’ case, you mostly lose. It has been a year since the Giants traded for Rafael Devers, and like most of their big swings since allowing Buster Posey to take the reins of the front office, the team has come up empty and looked […]
Monday BP: What’s on deck this week?
Good morning, baseball fans! A new week of San Francisco Giants baseball begins today, so let’s take a look at what’s on deck this week. While the week begins today, the baseball does not. The Giants have the day off, as they head to the east coast to begin a three-game series against the Atlanta […]
Webb gem
It’s easy to forget how good pitching can help produce good hitting. The correlation isn’t always guaranteed, isn’t always direct or obvious, but every once and awhile those two different facets of the game sync for a team, and it becomes perfectly clear how much one needs, or feeds, off the other. Defenders are also […]
6/14 Gamethread: Giants vs. Cubs
Well, there’s more baseball today, I guess. If you’re into that sort of thing. The San Francisco Giants have given us no reason to watch them lately, both with their play and their bigoted messaging. For some people, that’s reason enough to stop watching; for others, they need the respite that baseball provides, even when […]
Nothing new to report
Truly. Nothing new. Same ol’, same ol’ in this one. A 6-1 loss that felt pre-determined, or determined immediately after Pete Crow-Armstrong homered on the first pitch of the game thrown by Trevor McDonald. PCA continued to be a menace all evening: he collected two more hits, came up a triple shy of the cycle, […]
Sunday BP: Bigoted Giants don’t get a highlight of the week because bigotry is not a highlight
Good morning, baseball fans! Another week of San Francisco Giants baseball comes to an end today, which would normally mean that it’s time to share our favorite highlights of the week. I even had an entire post already scheduled to publish today with fantastic highlights. Unfortunately, I am a human being. And a human being […]
6/13 Gamethread: Giants vs. Cubs
It’s time for Game 2 between the San Francisco Giants and the Chicago Cubs! Welcome to weekend baseball! Trevor McDonald takes the mound for the Giants, with the right-hander making his eighth start of the year. So far this season, the 25-year old is 2-3 with a 4.15 ERA, a 3.51 FIP, and 37 strikeouts […]
A new covenant is needed
In their return to the baseball field after mounting a historic comeback against the Nationals on Wednesday, the San Francisco Giants — you guessed it! — were nearly shut-out by the Chicago Cubs. You know how when you come back from the store and you want to speed-up the cool-down process on some room-temperature beverages […]
Saturday BP: Player of the Week
Good morning, baseball fans! Another week of San Francisco Giants baseball is coming to an end this weekend, so it’s time to make our picks for Player of the Week! I am really enjoying this thing that the Giants are doing lately where it’s actually difficult to make my picks for these because there are […]
Bad and bigoted
It took less than one pitch for the San Francisco Giants to ruin their Friday night game. The stands had yet to fill in. The clock had yet to strike 7:10. The umpire had yet to say “play ball.” And yet the Giants, in a season full of embarrassment, had already delivered their most disgraceful […]
6/12 Gamethread: Giants vs. Cubs
The San Francisco Giants welcome the Chicago Cubs to Oracle Park tonight for a rematch of last weekend’s series. Taking the mound for the Giants will be right-hander Landen Roupp, who enters tonight’s game with a 4.00 ERA, 3.02 FIP, with 77 strikeouts to 30 walks in 69.2 innings pitched. His last start was in […]
Giants Minor League Baseball roundup, June 11: Charlie Szykowny leads a home run derby
All seven of the San Francisco Giants Minor League Baseball affiliates were in action on Thursday, so let’s jump straight into all of it! Link to the 2026 McCovey Chronicles Community Prospect List (CPL) All listed positions in the roundup are the position played in that particular game. News The only news is that the […]
Giants bring back Ryan Walker, option Carson Seymour
In a move that will surely infuriate KNBR callers, the San Francisco Giants are bringing back Ryan Walker. Prior to Friday’s series opener against the Chicago Cubs, the Giants announced that the right-handed reliever has been recalled from AAA Sacramento, while fellow right-handed pitcher Carson Seymour was optioned. By now you’re all familiar with Walker’s […]
It’s some of the worst pitching you’ll ever see
I’ve spent a lot of time this season comparing the 2026 Giants’ record to the records of bad teams throughout franchise history, but as it becomes clearer and clearer that this team, though fun, is tacking to the 2017 team’s record or thereabouts, I don’t see the point in continuing to belabor the point. So, […]
Series Preview: Giants-Cubs Rematch
The Cubs have lost 2 out of 3 in their last 4 series, including last weekend in Chicago against the San Francisco Giants. By the way, the extra innings game on Sunday Night Baseball wound up being the fourth-largest primetime audience of the MLB season. The Giants didn’t look like one of the worst teams […]
Friday BP: Oracle Park promotions this weekend
Good morning, baseball fans! The San Francisco Giants are home this weekend, so let’s take a look at what Oracle Park has on deck for fans who are thinking about taking in a game. First up, tonight is Pride Night at Oracle Park. The special event tickets are sold out, but if you happened to […]
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