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Posey to start, Nunez still out as Giants try to snap losing streak
Giants’ catcher Buster Posey wasn’t healthy enough to run the bases on Friday night. But the team’s best hitter still managed to put a scare in Rockies’ closer Greg Holland. A night after exiting Thursday’s game with a sore ankle, Posey pinch-hit for Kelby Tomlinson in the top half of the ninth inning with the…
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Samardzija helps, then hurts his own cause in Giants loss
In the top half of the fifth inning at Coors Field on Friday evening, pitcher Jeff Samardzija played the starring role in a comedy, as his two-run home run gave his Giants’ teammates a good laugh and gave San Francisco a 4-1 lead. Fifteen minutes later, Samardzija was the protagonist in a tragedy, as he…
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Giants pitcher Jeff Samardzija slams third career home run
The San Francisco Giants entered Friday evening’s contest at Coors Field with a Major League-worst 52 home runs. Enter pitcher Jeff Samardzija. In the top half of the fifth inning, Samardzija smoked a fastball from Rockies’ right-hander Antonio Senzatela over the right center field fence at Coors Field to give the Giants a 4-1 lead.
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Posey, Nunez sitting after leaving Thursday’s game with injuries
The Giants entered their four-game set against the Rockies this weekend with the worst offense in Major League Baseball. Then, in the span of five minutes, San Francisco lost both of its .300 hitters.
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Giants looking to even series against Rockies behind Samardzija
After two mop-up appearances, Hunter Strickland pitched in a third successive game Thursday, this time in a crucial situation. He retired one of the four batters he faced in the ninth and gave up the game-losing run as the San Francisco Giants fell 10-9 to the Colorado Rockies.
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Draft expert Jonathan Mayo on 1050: Giants add raw power with early picks
Covering the draft and minor leagues for MLB.com, Jonathan Mayo joined The Audible on Friday morning to discuss the raw power in the Giants first two draft selections, Heliot Ramos and Jacob Gonzalez.
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Moore’s disastrous start could trigger next Giants call-up
If a team can invent new ways to lose games, consider the 2017 San Francisco Giants baseball’s version of Thomas Edison. Edison was both practical and prolific as an innovator, and this season, the Giants have seemingly matched Edison’s originality, saving their most creative defeat of the year for their series-opener against the first place…
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Giants complete miracle comeback, still lose in wild Coors Field finish
If the Giants’ 2017 season has felt like a never-ending bad dream, Thursday evening’s 10-9 defeat against the Colorado Rockies was their worst nightmare. After falling behind 9-1 by the end of the third inning at Coors Field, San Francisco’s Major League-worst offense embarked on a miraculous eight-run comeback to tie the game 9-9, only to lose on…
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Posey, Nunez exit Giants game with injuries
For much of the season, catcher Buster Posey and third baseman Eduardo Nunez have carried a lackluster San Francisco Giants’ offense. And on Thursday night at Coors Field, both players needed help getting down the dugout steps.
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Bay Area native John Gavin on being drafted by the Giants: ‘One of the biggest dreams I’ve ever had come true’
With their eighth round draft choice the Giants selected Cal State Fullerton left-hander John Gavin. The junior southpaw pitcher is a San Jose native who is 8-2 this season with a 2.67 ERA and 89 strikeouts. Gavin went to St. Francis High School and has been a die-hard Giants fan his entire life.
