Category Archives: Top Headlines
Giants’ season ends on controversial called strike, amid game full of them
https://twitter.com/NBCSGiants/status/1310346899334074369 The end to the Giants’ season might not have been fair, but it was certainly apropos. San Francisco’s 2020 campaign ended on a con...
Sep 27, 2020
Giants get all the breaks but fall just short in heartbreaking finish to season
Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports In a season of obstacles, of games interrupted by COVID scares and wildfire smoke, a campaign that has taken many Giants from their families, of orange skies and road Orac...
Sep 27, 2020
SF Giants playoff scenarios and lineup as a wild Sunday begins
Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports“All or nothing,” Mauricio Dubon said Saturday night about the Giants’ Sunday.It’s mostly correct, with the club having one more game to play. What ...
Sep 27, 2020
Joe Montana wrestles grandchild away from would-be kidnapper [report]
Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY SportsWhat a nightmare.According to TMZ a potential kidnapper entered Joe Montana’s Malibu home and tried to steal one of his grandchildren on Saturday night. Law enfor...
Sep 27, 2020
Giants DFA Jeff Samardzija and end his run a few days early
Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports There was sadness and hope from Jeff Samardzija, who sometimes used the past tense in describing his Giants tenure but also spoke in first-person about the 2020 club. R...
Sep 26, 2020
Jeff Samardzija breathes in emotional Giants goodbye: ‘Appreciative of everything’
Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports Jeff Samardzija looked around at what six months ago would have been unsettling and bizarre. He sat in the Giants’ dugout minutes before his start and breathed in a ...
Sep 26, 2020
Why the Giants stuck with Sam Coonrod
Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports The Giants ran out of pitchers and of steam. But not of apparent (or relative) trust in Sam Coonrod, which cost them in yet another back-breaker that adds to a ledger that...
Sep 25, 2020
Giants get walked-off at their own park in stunning, crushing loss
Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports Crushing. The Giants, so close to the brink of the playoffs, two outs away from being a win away from clinching with two to play, watched their season get tossed into a hu...
Sep 25, 2020
Giants’ biggest day in years starts with homers and Tyler Anderson excellence
Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports Mike Yastrzemski runs hard. He charges to first on ground outs, he will back up throws, he does not take plays off. Which is part of the reason he volunteered early Friday...
Sep 25, 2020
Jeff Samardzija is getting his enormous Giants chance
Chris Brown-USA TODAY Sports The Giants may be asking Jeff Samardzija to save their season. The 35-year-old is starting the nightcap of Friday’s doubleheader, a first chance since injuring his s...
Sep 25, 2020
