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5/2 Gamethread: Giants @ Rays
The San Francisco Giants are set to face the Tampa Bay Rays this afternoon, and the hope is that they can start to turn around a miserable road trip, though they’re fast running out of time. San Francisco has lost the first four games of the six-game swing, and that underscores how bad it’s been: […]
Saturday BP: Second day of Mays-mas
Good morning, baseball fans! We are in the middle of a new feature for May that I’m calling the “12 Days of Mays-mas” because I won’t be around for the next week or so, and I want to leave you guys with some fun things to watch while I’m gone. For the second day of […]
Another shutout
For a Major League leading seventh time, the San Francisco Giants have been shutout, 22% of the 32 games played in the 2026 season. To put this dismal display in perspective, the 2019 Miami Marlins were shutout 22 times, the most in the Wild Card Era, which is roughly 14% of the 162 games in […]
5/1 Gamethread: Giants @ Rays
The San Francisco Giants head to Florida today to begin a three-game road series against the Tampa Bay Rays. Taking the mound for the Giants will be left-hander Robbie Ray, who enters today’s game with a 2.70 ERA, 4.23 FIP, with 35 strikeouts to 14 walks in 33.1 innings pitched. His last start was in […]
Fun (?) stats from the first month of the season
Look, the Giants didn’t have the kind of start we’d hoped for and the numbers from the first month of the season don’t tell us anything different from what we saw/psychically absorbed. The Giants were not a good baseball team, which doesn’t necessarily mean that they will be a bad baseball team going forward. Nobody […]
Giants Minor League Baseball roundup, April 30: Argenis Cayama and Scott Bandura show star potential
Things have cooled down for the San Francisco Giants Minor League Baseball affiliates lately, as the organization is no longer running out a quartet of teams incapable of losing. But it’s still a very exciting time to be following prospects, and each of the teams is a lot of fun, even if the red-hot starts […]
Giants-Rays Series Preview: The Rays have done it again
Coming off back to back losing seasons, Baseball’s intellgentsia and proprietary projection systems had it out for the Tampa Bay Rays this past winter. MLB.com ranked them 22nd before a pitch was even thrown and a pair of experts didn’t predict them to be competitve in the Wild Card race. PECOTA projected 81 or 82 […]
Friday BP: 12 Days of Mays-mas
Good morning, baseball fans! I’m going to be away for the next week or so, so I thought that during that time we could do a fun feature I’m calling the “12 Days of Mays-mas” because it’s May and I think I’m clever sometimes. Essentially, we’ll be watching some Giants games from the vault of […]
Exasperation, the sequel
Nine straight sinkers to Bryson Stott before his game-tying triple that led to the Phillies 3-2 walk-off win earlier in the day. Seven straight splitters to Kyle Schwarber before he ripped a two-out, game-tying double that eventually led to another Philly win in 10 innings — the first time an MLB team has walked-off twice […]
Giants vs. Phillies enters rain delay
The San Francisco Giants and Philadelphia Phillies are, once again, dealing with poor weather. Their scheduled game on Wednesday was postponed due to inclement weather, which led to a doubleheader on Thursday. All went smoothly for the first game (other than the Giants blowing a ninth-inning lead and getting walked off), but trouble came in […]
Bullpen and offense waste brilliant Logan Webb start
The 2026 San Francisco Gianta are discovering new ways to lose. In the first game of Wednesday’s doubleheader, it was a blown save and a walk-off infield single. Ryan Walker (0-1) gave up a game-tying triple to Bryson Stott in the 9th inning and Stott scored on Justin Crawford’s two-out infield single to give the […]
Giants Minor League Baseball roundup, April 29: Bryce Eldridge dominates
For the second day in a row, the San Francisco Giants only had three Minor League Baseball games, as AA Richmond had their contest against Altoona rained out. Those teams will play a doubleheader on Friday. Let’s jump into the games that did happen! Link to the 2026 McCovey Chronicles Community Prospect List (CPL) All […]
4/30 Gamethread: Giants @ Phillies x2!
It’s the first doubleheader of the season! After Wednesday’s game was postponed due to inclement weather, the San Francisco Giants and Philadelphia Phillies will play twice today. It’s a split doubleheader, with the first game starting at 9:35 a.m. PT, and the second scheduled for 2:35 p.m. PT. So you get a two-game gamethread! Starting […]
Has Casey Schmitt arrived?
Casey Schmitt is an anomaly. A player better known for his defense who has been decoupled from defense because the Giants just so happen to have players slightly better than him at his main positions but also because of his bat? On a team that famously cannot hit? How is this possible? A fluke of […]
Thursday BP: Oracle Park removes popular/controversial concession package
Good morning, baseball fans! According to reporting from Gabe Fernandez of SFGate, the San Francisco Giants have removed a food item that was both popular and controversial from availability at Oracle Park. The Giants were among a handful of teams who had released a “9-9-9 challenge” concession package earlier this season. The challenge is essentially […]
Tyler Fitzgerald primed for career revival with Dodgers
Tyler Fitzgerald had one glorious five-week stretch for the San Francisco Giants in 2024 where he hit 13 home runs in 26 games. He fell off so badly that the Giants traded last season’s primary second baseman to the Toronto Blue Jays in early April. But now Fitzgerald is ready to revive his career with […]
Giants vs. Phillies postponed, with a Thursday doubleheader scheduled
The San Francisco Giants game on Wednesday against the Philadelphia Phillies has officially been postponed, and will be made up on Thursday with a split doubleheader. About half an hour before the game was scheduled to start, it was announced that it will not happen at all, as a large storm is hitting the east […]
4/29 Gamethread: Giants @ Phillies
The San Francisco Giants continue this three-game road series against the Philadelphia Phillies this afternoon. Taking the mound for the Giants will be right-hander Logan Webb, who enters today’s game with a 4.86 ERA, 3.32 FIP, with 32 strikeouts to 13 walks in 37 innings pitched. His last start was in the Giants’ 3-0 loss […]
What insult do you think the Giants use to describe walks?
The San Francisco Giants are on pace to end the month of April with either the fewest walks over the team’s first 30 games in 125 years or 108 years. Only twice have the Giants started a season with 65 or fewer in games 1-30: 1901 (60 BB) & 1918 (65 BB). After last night’s […]
Giants Minor League Baseball roundup, April 28: Carson Whisenhunt shows off the changeup
There were just three games for the San Francisco Giants Minor League Baseball affiliates on Tuesday, as those teams kicked off their next six-game series. High-A Eugene, as happens from time to time (including next week) had a scheduling conflict at their University of Oregon stadium, and have a doubleheader on Saturday to make up […]
Giants add RHP Gregory Santos, option Blade Tidwell
The last vestiges of the Eduardo Nunez trade from 2017 exist in the form of reliever Gregory Santos, whom the Boston Red Sox signed as an amateur free agent allllll the way back in 2015. It wouldn’t be until 2021 that he’d make his major league debut with the San Francisco Giants and after 5.2 […]
Wednesday’s game between the Giants and Phillies pushed up 30 minutes
The San Francisco Giants are facing the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday, in the second game of their three-game series. The hope is that the second game will go better than the first one did. We’ll have to wait to see if that’s the case, but one thing’s for certain: the game is coming a little […]
Wednesday BP: Watch Brandon Belt in the booth
Good morning, baseball fans! On Saturday, the San Francisco Giants honored Brandon Belt with an on-field celebration, which we watched in yesterday’s BP post. The ceremony honored the contributions and personality of our favorite baby giraffe. Further showcasing that personality, Belt took to the broadcast booth during the game to sit in with Mike Krukow […]
Jesús Luzardo is the answer in Phillies shutout win
The struggling Philadelphia Phillies got a masterful start from Jesús Luzardo Tuesday night. He held the San Francisco Giants to two baserunners and three total bases in seven innings of work, striking out eight including a hat trick of Matt Chapman. The only thing he didn’t go was close, leaving with a five-run lead after […]
Phillies fire manager ahead of SF Giants series
After four straight trips to the playoffs, including a World Series appearance in 2022, the 9-19 Philadelphia Phillies fired manager Rob Thomson Tuesday morning. The move was made for a number of reasons but we can safely conclude that the timing of the firing was inspired by abject fear of facing a red-hot San Francisco […]
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