Matt Moore

His career as a starter may possibly be over, but Matt Cain is ready to embrace a new role.

Last October, Matt Moore shut down a fierce Chicago Cubs’ lineup over eight innings of work, allowing two hits in Game 4 of the NLDS in a dominant effort that was as close to perfect as any San Francisco pitcher could hope to throw against the eventual World Series champions.

Matt Moore has not been great by any definition this season, but his recent pitching performances were trending in the right direction. After three straight games logging at least six innings with no more than four runs allowed, Moore regressed slightly Wednesday, allowing four runs in just five innings of work.

In the midst of a 2017 season in which the San Francisco Giants have helped pitchers you’ve never heard of look like All-Star-caliber arms, Gossett was the latest to turn the trick on the orange and black.

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.

The fourth inning wasn’t kind to left-handers Matt Moore and Ty Blach over the weekend versus the Padres

In the past 10 days, Hector Sanchez has launched three home runs against San Francisco, and upped his career average against the orange and black to .478. So it was only fitting that for the Giants to finally overcome the Padres on Saturday, it required a former Padres’ catcher giving his old squad a taste of its own medicine.

Panda-monium swept through AT&T Park on Saturday, as a week of rumors, speculation and reports concluded with Pablo Sandoval’s arrival in San Francisco to sign a Minor League contract with his former organization.

Matt Moore was having a fine night throwing the ball overhand. But when he tried to make an underhanded throw, the San Francisco Giants’ left-hander fell apart.