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Giants ride momentum of Wilmer Flores' big night into clash vs. A'sGiants manager Bob Melvin will find himself in an unusual position as he ponders his starting lineup for Saturday night's rematch with the Athletics in San Francisco.,What do you do with a guy who hit three home runs in the previous night?,That's what Wilmer Flores did in the series opener, smacking...

Giants place INF Wlmer Flores (knee) on 10-day injured listThe San Francisco Giants placed infielder Wilmer Flores on the 10-day injured list on Thursday because of right knee tendonitis.,The move was retroactive to Wednesday. In a corresponding move, the Giants recalled infielder David Villar from Triple-A Sacramento.,"He's a good hitter," Giants manager B...

The Giants are suffering a power outageFresh off a franchise-best 107-win season, nobody expected the San Francisco Giants to repeat as NL West champs in 2022. The departures of key players such as Buster Posey, Kris Bryant, and Kevin Gausman were going to be difficult to overcome. The Giants managed to replace Gausman by acquiring Carlo...

Baseball is a horror show

He pointed. Obviously, he pointed....

We were so close

You couldn’t really have asked for much more from the Dodgers and Giants, series or Game 5. What you want is it to be close and dramatic, and those boxes were checked. The stats for these teams are staggeringly close. 109 wins each going in, a season series that is now tied at 12, the run-differenti...

The Dodgers are pulling a page out of Tampa Bay’s playbook — opting for an opener in Game 5

With both the Giants and Dodgers facing elimination tonight, both teams need to put their best foot forward. The Giants are throwing Logan Webb, who also started Game 1 of this series, going 7.2 innings allowing just five hits, walking none, and striking out 10 (tied for his season high). Webb is 7-...

We need to double-check checked swings

The NL West is shaping up to be one of the best divisional races we’ve seen in quite some time. Currently, the Giants, Dodgers, and Padres are on pace to win over 90 games. There hasn’t been a division with at least three teams reaching the 90-win threshold since the NL Central in 2015 (I miss when ...

Look, I’d love to blame Tony La Russa too, but…

It makes for an easy narrative, and one all of us that wants to see baseball evolve into something more fun can easily grab onto. ...