San Francisco Giants News

After holding the worst record in baseball for much of the second half, the Giants might be the league’s hottest team heading into the postseason.

After 67 incredible years of calling Major League Baseball games for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Vin Scully is retiring. The San Francisco Giants made sure to send him out in as much style as possible and KNBR 680 got in on the action, airing the Dodgers’ broadcast during the 3rd inning of the Giants-Dodgers final matchup of the season.

Manager Bruce Bochy is willing to use just about every pitcher he has to ensure a win on Sunday.

New York went 3-3 against the Cardinals this season, and 4-3 against the Giants.

SAN FRANCISCO — There’s a reason Bruce Bochy made it clear before Saturday’s game that Jeff Samardzija would be available out of the bullpen: He wasn’t expecting Ty Blach, five days removed from a shaky first career start, to survive for very long in a high stakes game against one of the best pitchers in baseball. […]

With the Mets clinching home field advantage for the NL Wild Card game Wednesday night, the Giants and Cardinals still have one more game to get in themselves. A win Sunday not only puts the Giants in New York Wednesday night, it allows manager Bruce Bochy to mix and match his starting pitching as he wishes.

In 11 career innings against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Ty Blach has allowed 0 runs on only 3 hits.

Following Ty Blach’s impressive 8-inning shutout performance against Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers Saturday afternoon, he and his All-Star catcher, Buster Posey agreed they are both on the same page.

After Sunday’s home run, Angel Pagan is now tied for most career extra-base hits off Kershaw. Pagan has hit 5 doubles and 1 home run off the Dodgers ace.

As the San Francisco Chronicle’s Henry Schulman put it, “these fans don’t really like Yasiel Puig.” So it wasn’t much of a surprise to hear a few extra cheers and cat calls from Giants fans following Ty Blach’s exclamatory punch out of the Dodgers’ right fielder.