San Francisco Giants

Wednesday night’s game will mark the conclusion of the season’s first half.

ESPN’s Tim Kurkjian joined Gary & Larry on Wednesday morning and offered up a few opinions on the Giants’ up and down 2018 season.

All of the sudden, Holland looks to have a permanent spot in the Giants’ rotation, even with the returns of Johnny Cueto and Jeff Samardzija looming. Giants broadcaster Mike Krukow joined Murph & Mac on Wednesday morning, and broke down what he thinks had led to Holland’s improvement.

The Giants have won six of their past seven games to pull within 4.5 games of the Arizona Diamondbacks in the NL West.

Buster Posey is having a solid season so far in 2018. Still, he’s below his career averages in batting average, on-base percentage, and slugging percentage, leading many to believe that the veteran catcher may not be at 100 percent.

The Giants have to finally start showing us they mean business, and are not a collection of older, bruised bodies fighting to stay even.

The Giants have spent most of the 2018 season treading water, alternating from losing streak to winning streak seemingly weekly. Currently San Francisco sits one game above .500 (40-39) and five games out of first place in the NL West, as they await the return of star pitcher Johnny Cueto.

It was an entertaining week of Giants baseball and Bill Laskey and Ryan Covay are back to hand out some grades on this weeks edition of “Grades from the Cove”.

An odd thing happened in the bottom of the 10th inning during Sunday’s Giants-Padres game. With the game tied at one run apiece, Joe Panik opened the frame with a lead-off double. Needing just a run to win the game with the speedy Alen Hanson stepping up to the plate, it seemed like an obvious bunting situation.

The 2018 season has been one to forget for Hunter Pence. Sunday’s game, however, provided some respite from the frustration.