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Giants switch-pitcher Pat Venditte released a statement on social media Tuesday, announcing he would be stepping away from baseball for undetermined period of time as his wife, Erin, recovers from a brain hemorrhage she suffered on July 4.

When Madison Bumgarner’s eight team no-trade list was leaked early in the season, the assumption was that Bumgarner chose those specific teams as a means of gaining leverage.

As the Giants mull the idea of not selling nine days before the trade deadline, closer Will Smith remains very much in demand.

Another game vs. the Mets, another walk-off win. The San Francisco Giants took their third game of the four-game series on Sunday, via an impressive opposite field home run by Mike Yastrzemski in the bottom of the 12th inning. The Giants won all three games of the series in extra innings.

A power surge may be arriving in San Francisco on Sunday. According to multiple reports, the Giants are calling up slugging third-base prospect Zach Green. Green, 25, a Sacramento native, has launched 23 home runs with the River Cats this season, while posting a ridiculous OPS of 1.099 in 264 plate appearances.

Rumors about who the San Francisco Giants are going to trade have followed the club since the offseason. Now eleven days before the deadline, those rumors have only ramped up, with the club improbably sitting just two games out of the final NL Wild Card spot.

The magic continued on Friday for the San Francisco Giants. The Orange and Black made it seven in a row after Mets left fielder Dom Smith dropped what looked to be a routine fly ball in the bottom of the 10th inning. The error allowed Alex Dickerson, who was running hard with two outs, to score from first base.

It started in mid-June, a little flicker when they won four straight against the Padres and Brewers. But, naw, back then the Giants were 30-38, eight games under and we were all busy enmeshed in Warriors drama, ACLs, Achilles tendons, all that.

Madison Bumgarner’s trade value might have reached it’s apex after the big lefty tossed a nine-inning gem in the Giants’ wild 16-inning win on Thursday.

“Well, I’ve never really answered that, but I will say this to you,” Selig said. “In my mind, even though Bonds holds the record, and I’ve said records are records, I think you know how I feel about Henry Aaron.”