Johnny Rucker was the last Giant to lead off a game with an inside-the-parker, all the way back on June 20, 1945, when the organization was still in New York
The Giants are out of contention in 2017. However, a strong back-end of the bullpen is coming together that could help turnaround what many hope to be is a bounce-back season in 2018.
Miami Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton is on pace to hit 60 home runs this season. If he finishes the season with that number, he would be 13 behind single-season record holder Barry Bonds who hit 73 in 2001, and tied for eighth on the all-time list.
According to many experts, right-handed pitcher Tyler Beede is the best prospect in the San Francisco Giants organization. Beede was the only member of the team included in Baseball America’s Top 100 prospects list for 2017, and is primed to join the big league rotation next season, after their shaky showing this year.
When San Francisco arrived in Philadelphia for a three-game series against the Major League-worst Phillies over the first weekend of June, it was supposed to offer a team that dug its way into a ditch a welcome reprieve from the depths it had sunk to.
The entire piece, entitled “Back Where I Belong,” is worth reading, as Sandoval apologizes for the way he left the organization, expresses the regret he felt while in Boston and how he did ‘everything in his power’ to get back to San Francisco after he was released by the Red Sox in July.
MLB.com contributor Richard Justice joined KNBR on Monday afternoon and discussed the kinds of tweaks the Giants should make this winter to turn things around in 2018.