San Francisco Giants News

Traditionally, “Sunday Night Baseball” on ESPN is reserved for the game’s most compelling matchups, and in the second half of the season, network decision-makers almost always select contests featuring a pair of playoff contenders certain to draw a national audience.

Ryder Jones is in Los Angeles and has a locker in the San Francisco Giants’ clubhouse. But for now, Jones remains a member of the Sacramento River Cats.

Carlos Moncrief probably wasn’t supposed to make his Major League debut on Saturday. Somewhere along the line, Moncrief was probably told he would never make his Major League debut. But on Saturday, he finally did.

For the better part of a beautiful Saturday afternoon at a sun-splashed Dodger Stadium, Giants’ left-hander Ty Blach was very good. But against the Los Angeles Dodgers, if you’re not excellent, don’t expect to go home a winner.

It’s hard to believe that the final two weeks of the regular season would be critical for a team that sits 24 games under .500 in the final days of July, but that’s exactly how the last half of September is shaping up for the San Francisco Giants.

Saturday, San Francisco made another move to acquire a once-promising player who hasn’t found much MLB success.

On Saturday morning, Sacramento River Cats season ticket holders discovered that the upcoming week could be one of the most fruitful in recent memory, as Giants’ manager Bruce Bochy announced that closer Mark Melancon is prepared to begin a rehab assignment on Sunday in Sacramento.

On Friday evening at Dodger Stadium, the Giants’ played their foes from Southern California evenly for much of the night, and yet, when the final out was recorded, San Francisco found itself on the wrong side of an equation that hasn’t added up in their favor much this season.

When left-hander Alex Wood threw the first pitch of the game on Friday, the Dodgers held a 31.5 game lead in the National League West over the Giants, the largest gap between the two teams since 1985 and the largest difference this early in a season since 1902. At that time, Teddy Roosevelt was President, the Model T hadn’t been invented and both franchises would call New York home for another half-century.

LOS ANGELES–When San Francisco announced it had traded Eduardo Nunez to the Boston Red Sox, Giants’ manager Bruce Bochy knew he had a problem on his hands. Not only was Nunez the second-most productive hitter on the Giants’ roster outside of Buster Posey, he was the team’s only right-handed hitting third baseman. So when Nunez […]