Madison Bumgarner

If the San Francisco Giants were a ship instead of a baseball team, it would be safe to say they hit an iceberg long ago. The days of making Titanic references are well past us, because with a record of 41-67, the Giants ship is already sunk.

After Bumgarner’s performance Sunday night, Mike Krukow believes there’s no doubt that the Giants’ ace is back to form.

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.

Eduardo Nunez was a member of the San Francisco Giants for less than a calendar year. But based on the reactions of Nunez, his teammates and Giants’ manager Bruce Bochy to the news that the team’s starting third baseman was traded to the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday evening, the impact Nunez had was immense.

Giants’ pitcher Chris Stratton is used to pitching on short notice. Roughly 30 minutes before Johnny Cueto was scheduled to make his July 6 start in Detroit, San Francisco scratched Cueto with an inner ear infection and called on Stratton to make his first Major League start.

Some of the Giants’ issues are deeply rooted, while others have cropped up and disappeared over the course of the year. But throughout the season, the Giants have been unable to capitalize on two key opportunities that nearly every winning ballclub takes advantage of.

For the better part of the decade, there’s been a certain aura around AT&T Park when Madison Bumgarner starts. It’s the same type of energy that surrounded Tim Lincecum at the height of his career, and Barry Bonds in late-game at-bats.

In a game in which he was the starting pitcher, the Giants lost. At the end of the day, that’s all that really concerns Madison Bumgarner. Even though things didn’t go the way he had hoped in the Giants 5-2 loss to the San Diego Padres, the Giants’ ace knows that there’s nothing else he […]

Madison Bumgarner has won at least 13 games for the San Francisco Giants in each of the last six seasons. It’s July 20, and Bumgarner is still searching for his first ‘W’ in 2017.

After Madison Bumgarner went down with a Grade 2 shoulder sprain in the middle of April, the San Francisco Giants had to wait nearly three months for Bumgarner to return to the rotation and form a one-two punch with right-hander Johnny Cueto.