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Samardzija details main reason for his 2017 success
Although his win-loss record (2-8) doesn’t show it, The Shark has been one of the better starting pitchers for the Giants in 2017. Saturday he struck out his 100th batter of the year, and has only walked 12 batters.
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Giants searching for explanation for offensive woes
After San Francisco dropped its second straight contest against the American League Central-leading Minnesota Twins by a score of 3-2, manager Bruce Bochy expressed frustration at the fact so many of his team’s key players are producing well below their career averages.
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Bochy: ‘We’re going to continue to struggle, I gotta be honest here’
The Giants have scored the third lowest amount of runs of any club in the majors, and have the third worst team batting average. Bruce Bochy said his team will continue to struggle until the offense starts to produce a the level it has in the past…but he believes it will.
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Belt’s blast not enough as Twins clinch series against Giants
Giants’ right-hander Jeff Samardzija entered his Saturday start in the midst of a historic run. The man the Giants affectionately call “Shark” became the first pitcher since 1900 to record over 50 strikeouts while issuing just one walk or fewer in a span of seven starts dating back to the first week of May.
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Bochy offers injury updates on Morse, Panik
It’s been nearly two weeks since Giants’ reliever Hunter Strickland pelted Nationals’ star Bryce Harper with a 98-mile per hour that led to a brawl between the two sides. Though Strickland will have his appeal hearing on Tuesday, there’s another Giants’ player who doesn’t have closure from the May 31 showdown.
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Panik day-to-day, will avoid DL with sprained thumb
A day after launching his third home run of the season, San Francisco Giants’ second baseman Joe Panik was riding the pine. Giants’ manager Bruce Bochy traditionally likes to keep a player that homers in a previous game in the lineup, but on Friday evening, Bochy was left with no choice but to sit his…
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Santana dazzles, Giants shut out for seventh time this season
It was 1970 when Bay Area musical legend Carlos Santana released his timeless hit, “Black Magic Woman.” Nearly 50 years later, a different Santana arrived in San Francisco to record a hit of his own, and it featured every bit of black magic as the lyricist’s Latin groove.
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Panik held out with sprained thumb [report]
The only Giants’ player with an extra base hit on Friday night is second baseman Aaron Hill, and Hill is only in the lineup because the team’s starter can’t go.
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Giants call on Slater to take ownership in left
If the Giants’ four-game series against Milwaukee this week was an audition, rookie left fielder Austin Slater earned a call back. After launching a towering 461-foot home run in the fourth inning of Thursday’s series finale, Slater finds himself in the Giants’ lineup for the second straight evening as the team returns home to take…
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Giants hope Dyson becomes next reliever to find himself in San Francisco
Sam Dyson was one of the most productive closers in baseball in 2016. On Friday, Dyson joined the Giants as their latest bullpen reclamation project.
