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Giants fail to build off early success in loss to Brewers
A day after rookie Austin Slater became the 10th different San Francisco player to start a game in left field this season, manager Bruce Bochy turned back to recent call-up Orlando Calixte, who suffered through his worst performance in a Giants’ uniform in Wednesday’s 6-3 loss.
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Giants no closer to finding consistent solution in left field
There is one sinking similarity linking the San Francisco Giants to the Cleveland Browns, and it’s that for all the struggles the Browns have had in finding a quarterback over the last decade, the Giants have had just as difficult of a time honing in on a full-time left fielder.
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Frandsen on Blach: ‘He’s the stopper’
Kevin Frandsen is back talking Giants baseball, specifically Ty Blach and his solid contribution to the Giants’ starting rotation. After the Giants lost their ace pitcher Madison Bumgarner to a shoulder injury sustained after falling off a dirt bike, they called on Ty Blach to fill the void. Though he has some enormous shoes to…
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Dyson trade low-risk, potential high-reward move for Giants
Sixty games into the 2017 regular season, not much has gone according to plan for a San Francisco Giants team that finds itself 13 games out of first place, and 11 games back in the National League wild card hunt. But for as troubling of a season as the Giants have suffered through, new reliever…
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Giants’ offense fails to wake up in time in loss to Brewers
Matt Cain hasn’t pitched well at Milwaukee’s Miller Park. But even if Cain found a way to reverse his struggles against the Brewers on Tuesday evening, it wouldn’t have mattered much. It took until the ninth inning for the Giants to scratch their first runs across, as Milwaukee right-hander Chase Anderson tossed 7 and 2/3 innings, allowing…
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Giants acquire Rangers’ reliever Sam Dyson
The San Francisco Giants could become sellers by Major League Baseball’s trade deadline, but on Tuesday evening, the franchise entered the market as buyers. The organization added to its bullpen depth by trading for Texas Rangers’ right-hander Sam Dyson, a sixth-year veteran struggling through the worst season of his professional career.
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Cain attempting to overcome Miller Park struggles
As a team, the San Francisco Giants haven’t hit many targets this season, but on Monday evening, right-hander Jeff Samardzija continued to hit his at a historic rate. In a 7-2 win over the National League Central-leading Milwaukee Brewers, Samardzija punctuated a dominant start by striking out 10 hitters and not issuing a walk.
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Kuiper on Bumgarner: ‘He’s going to come back earlier than people think’
“He’s going to come back earlier than people think. I know that they want him to have x amount of innings and appearances before he comes back. He’s doing a lot of work. He told us earlier when this [injury] happened, that he was definitely a quick healer and that he might bounce back from…
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Samardzija strikes out 10 Brewers, Giants offense comes alive
Jeff Samardzija was brilliant in the Giants 7-2 victory over the first-place Milwaukee Brewers, striking out 10 and at one point, retiring 19 straight batters.
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Krukow on Giants’ woes: ‘This is as low as this clubhouse has been in a long time’
Coming into this season, many expected the Giants to make another strong playoff push while contending for the NL West crown. The reality has been anything but that, with the Giants sitting at 23-35 and tied with the Padres for last place in the division.
