Jeff Samardzija

On Thursday evening, Aaron Nola ran into the San Francisco Giants, a team that has endured no shortage of offensive struggles this season. It was a match made in heaven for the Phillies’ ace, but baseball is a funny game.

The Washington Nationals lost outfielder Bryce Harper to a knee injury in the first inning, but still came out on top against the Giants

The wet weather in Washington, D.C. has put a damper on the Giants’ weekend series against the Nationals, and on Saturday night, the rain impacted more than just the start time of the game.

Things haven’t exactly shaken out the way they’re supposed to for Giants’ rookie Chris Stratton.

A night after smashing a seventh-inning double to put the Giants on the board, and a 10th inning walkoff single to help San Francisco score its largest comeback victory of the season, Jarrett Parker was at it again.

Giants’ pitchers are not strangers to launching tape-measure home runs, and on Sunday afternoon, right-hander Jeff Samardzija thought he had his second round-tripper of the season.

Hunter Pence had every reason to be upset. Even though the Giants scored a season-high five runs in the first inning and forced A’s left-hander Sean Manaea out after just three innings, Pence came to the plate in the bottom of the sixth inning stuck with an 0-for-3 to his name.

Jeff Samardzija has spent a fair amount of time playing in the Oakland Coliseum. He spent half the year as a member of the Athletics in 2014, and has visited the stadium the past two years as a Giant.

Here’s something you don’t see every day.

Bobby Evans and the rest of the Giants’ front office have no choice but to continue to think big picture beyond the trade deadline, because most of the franchise’s top assets are challenging to move.