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Young right-hander Tim Lincecum tries to stretch his unbeaten streak to 12 games this evening, when the San Francisco Giants wrap up a four-game set with the Chicago Cubs at AT&T Park.

Chicago Cubs (51-34) at San Francisco Giants (37-48), 7:05 p.m. - Miami Herald

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By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) But certainly, playing the Giants should have helped, right? Well, not so fast; I watched yesterday as San Francisco spanked the Cubs bullpen. Sweet Lou Piniella's favorite middle reliever, Carlos Marmol, had been tasked with keeping a one-run deficit intact, but instead he surrender...

Barry Bonds would like to play again but realizes it probably will not happen. That was the impression he left with one of his Hollywood friends, CNN talk-show host Larry King, when they chatted two weeks ago. "I don't think he's going to play again," King...

 - The Giants jumped on top with two runs in the first. A throwing error by Lowe allowed Ray Durham to score on an infield single by Randy Winn, ...

By Chris Haft Andre Ethier, Russell Martin and Jeff Kent clubbed run-scoring doubles during a five-run sixth inning Friday that propelled the Los Angeles Dodgers past the Giants, 9-7. Giants undone by five-run frame vs. LA

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 CA - The Giants hit .315 against Derek Lowe as a team. I'd start Rich Aurilia, Ray Durham, and Aaron Rowand for certain. Lowe does not make a good play on the ...

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By Nick Cannata-Bowman In typical Giants fashion, our hometown favorites came back from being down 3-0, and then 5-2 on two dramatic home runs, by John Bowker and Ray Durham respectively. Once again in typical Giants fashion, we managed to instantly negate any hope for a win by promptly coughing up the game the ve...

Mike Fontenot hit a tiebreaking home run in the eighth inning and the Chicago Cubs continued their offensive resurgence in a 6-5 win over the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday night.

Giants' Matt Cain strikes out 10 in beating Cubs - Los Angeles Times

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By Chris Haft Gaylord Perry would be more than happy to share a portion of his Giants fame with Tim Lincecum. The young right-hander is 9-1, approaching Perry's San Francisco record for most victories with only one defeat. Lincecum impresses Hall of Famer Perry

By Chris Haft Maintaining their commitment to pursue talent internationally, the Giants announced the signing Wednesday of 16-year-old Dominican right-hander Luis Angel Mateo. Giants sign young Dominican pitcher

By obsessivegiantscompulsive(noreply@blogger.com) The international signing season started and while a number of teams have busted out their piggy banks and made some big signings - A's making the biggest with $4.25M for highly touted pitcher Michael Inoa - the Giants did not make the big signing but at least did get someone, Luis Angel Mate...

By Administrator In 1963, in one of the most memorable pitching duels in baseball history, the Giants’ Juan Marichal and the Braves’ Warren Spahn both pitched 15 scoreless innings… Willie Mays homered off Spahn in the bottom of the 16th to give San Francisco a 1- 0 win.

By Jayson Addcox Matt Cain and the Giants' defense put on a show Tuesday night at AT&T Park as the Giants defeated the Cubs, 2-1, in the second game of a four-game series. Cain sparkles as Giants beat Cubs

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By hschulman@sfchronicle.com (Henry Schulman) Imagine a pitcher built like a Humvee who surely will record his 500th big-league strikeout and 30th win before his 24th birthday. He already has a menacing mid-90s fastball and a quality curveball, slider and changeup that lack only consistency of delivery....

By By JANIE McCAULEY, AP Sports Writer Matt Cain struck out 10 in eight shutout innings, third baseman Jose Castillo made a great diving stop in the eighth to save a hit and the San Francisco Giants beat the Chicago Cubs 2-1 on Tuesday night. Fred Lewis stole home, scored both runs and had the...

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Matt Cain struck out 10 in eight shutout innings, third baseman Jose Castillo made a great diving stop in the eighth to save a hit and the San Francisco Giants beat the Chicago Cubs 2-1 on Tuesday night.

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By Grant Roberts is about to start a minor-league rehab assignment. He’ll be back soon, and this will present the biggest test of Bruce Bochy’s Giants career. With the other veteran v. whippersnapper debates, Bochy could always hide behind the "we’re trying to win ballgames"-argument. As in, yeah,...

By obsessivegiantscompulsive(noreply@blogger.com) As shown in my last post, preventing runs are very important and who has the biggest influence on that? The starting pitchers. That is another pillar in the strategy of creating the best team for success in the playoffs, and ultimately in the World Series.

By Chris Haft A strong outing by Barry Zito in the series opener against the Chicago Cubs might symbolize that the Giants have turned around their fortunes at home -- just in one game. Zito has embodied the Giants' struggles at AT&T Park, where they've posted the worst home record (14-24) in the Majo...

By Nick Cannata-Bowman Romo’s moustache wins this one narrowly over Jonathan Sanchez’ meticulously manicured pseudo-goatee, and Brian Wilson’s enormous soul patch, while Tim Lincecum doesn’t qualify, as he has yet to grow stubble. Also given consideration were Randy Winn and Aaron Rowand. The Pedro Feliz T...

By Taj Adib To add insult to injury, Rich Aurilia - scourge of the A's marketing department - tied his career high with 5 RBI's today and K-Rod just fist-pumped his way out of a bases-loaded 9th inning jam at Dodger Stadium to notch another save and extend the Angels' lead over the A's in the division to 4....

By Taj Adib San Francisco Giants @ Oakland Athletics 06/29/08 1:05 PM PDT San Francisco GiantsOakland AthleticsFred Lewis - LFMark Ellis - 2BRay Durham - 2BKurt Suzuki - CRandy Winn - RFBobby Crosby - SSBengie Molina - CEmil Brown - LFAaron Rowand - CFJack Cust - DHJohn Bowker - DHCarlos Gonzalez - R...

By Nico The Giants took umbrage at this ad and I can't blame them. Granted, San Francisco showed its umbrage Friday by pounding out a run on five hits and putting up, well, not much of a battle, but that's really not the point. In continuing a marketing theme, there are ample opportunities to be cute or...

By E.L.M. LF Lewis SS Burriss CF Rowand C Molina 1B Bowker RF Schierholtz 3B Castillo 2B Frandsen P Lincecum  Are you worried about Timmy? Have the Giants handled him properly this year? If he makes the All-Star team, should the Giants let him appear? Discuss.

By E.L.M. Four games until 81, the half-way point of the season. It’s been a weird one for the Giants. They’re not good, and sometimes they’re very bad, but at least they’re interesting. It’s been fun to watch the subplots: the younger players... First-Half Cy Young: Tim Lincecum. Until his rough outing S...

This is the quiet part of the NFL offseason, so I decided to take a different approach to my post this week. I decided to make a roster of my all-time favorite Giants players. I included only players that have been active in my lifetime (the past 26 years). These are the Giants that I personally ha...

By noreply@blogger.com (obsessivegiantscompulsive) And this don't have to be permanent, he can rest and recharge for a while with his family doing this before he finds another job in the MLB. Meanwhile, he can help straighten out his old buddy, perhaps impart some of that knowledge to the Giants coaching staff, and get out of the pressure cooke...

By noreply@blogger.com (obsessivegiantscompulsive) So I think that $4-5M is about what a top pick could expect to get in the draft without Boras as your agent, and if I were Posey’s agent I think that arguing for $5-6M would be where I would start and be happy with $3-4M and a major league contract when the deal is done. And Sabean said in a post-draf...

By noreply@blogger.com (Trevor) The Giants now sit alone as the team with the worst home record in baseball as their early June surge has died out here in the middle of the month. If they were just a .500 home team, they would be within a game or two of the first place D-Backs. After their last road trip, the team looked like it was ma...

By Taj Adib Chad Gaudin come on in relief of Eveland and struck out Jose Castillo to end the inning and the threat.; but Chad came right back the next inning to load the bases after allowing 3 straight singles. Geren then opted to send Keith Foulke out there to limit the damage and after an RBI single and a sa...

By Taj Adib Oakland Athletics @ San Francisco Giants 06/15/08 1:05 PM PDT Oakland AthleticsSan Francisco GiantsMark Ellis - 2BRandy Winn - RFRyan Sweeney - RFJose Castillo - 3BJack Cust - LFAaron Rowand - CFEric Chavez - 3BRay Durham - 2BBobby Crosby - SSRich Aurilia - 1BCarlos Gonzalez - CFBrian H...

By noreply@blogger.com (obsessivegiantscompulsive) Teams Lining Up for Hot ProspectCuban Baseball Player DefectsCuban Baseball Player Goes Public After DefectingCuban Viciedo in Miami (Baseball America)Dayan Viciado, the Rough Diamond of Cuban Baseball (article when he was younger)

By frankfso MLB News, San Francisco Giants - June 6, 2008 at 3:14 pm - Buster Posey, Conor Gillapsie both go yard Comment on this post - (1) Posts So how cool is that?! Buster Posey and Conor Gillapsie both park one a day after the draft. Okay I’m not going to anoint them with greatness, but hey the future is s...

By Paulie(noreply@blogger.com) Last season, if you had brought a metal detector to Mays Field and scoured around the second base area, you would have been driven deaf by the manic and increasingly loud beeping brought upon by the gigantic fork sticking out of the back of Ray Durham. Fortunately, this season, some courteo...

By Paulie(noreply@blogger.com) Now, I doubt that a 6-0 lead in that game, as opposed to the 5-0 that the Giants ended up holding, would have saved the team from crapping that game away in such colossal fashion, but those are the kinds of things that happen at Coors Field. It's weird, it's wacky, and it seems like the Giants alw...

By noreply@blogger.com (obsessivegiantscompulsive) Other notes:Baseball America had him ranked as the 44th best prospect this season, so the Giants by that ranking really had a great selection. He was ranked just behind Issac Galloway and Allan Dykstra, two players mock drafts had the Giants selecting.SaberScouting had him ranked 52nd. Th...

By noreply@blogger.com (obsessivegiantscompulsive) With the 37th overall pick, received for the Phillies signing Pedro Feliz, the Giants selected lefty-hitting 3B Conor Gillaspie (obviously a righty thrower then) of Wichita State University. He will be 21 years old on July 18th. Here is the comment in the MLB.com Draft Tracker:

By noreply@blogger.com (Trevor) Up in Fresno, the Giants have a few familiar faces playing very well. Eugenio Velez was sent down from the big league squad in early May and apparently he wasn't too happy about it as he's been on an absolute tear ever since. He's hitting .388 with 2 home runs, 7 rbi and 5 stolen bases in 12 games. Ano...

By Jim McLennan I'm thinking maybe it's time to update our slogan: perhaps something along the lines of, "Hey, at least the Dodgers lost again too." For they also dropped their fourth in a row; while our wretched performance sees the Diamondbacks firmly entrenched, at 10-16, in their first losing month s...

By The San Francisco Sentinel “I’m a kid from New Jersey and I’ve watched baseball from the bleachers most of my life, with the best games owed to the San Francisco Giants. I am honored to throw the first pitch in this wonderful stadium for a team and town I love. SOUTHEAST SAN FRANCISCO NEEDS REPRESENTATION

By Jim McLennan I'm sorry: these are not the San Francisco Giants I signed up to face. I signed up for the franchise widely predicted to have the worst record in the National League, and probably lose somewhere around 100 games. There appears to have been some kind of mistake - these Giants came into the impre...

By Jim McLennan Looking on the bright side, the three earned runs for which we tagged Tim Lincecum this evening actually ties a season high for the Giants hurler: in his ten previous starts, he'd allowed a total of only 15 runs. We won't see many better pitchers this season, outside perhaps of Zambrano, Pea...

By noreply@blogger.com (obsessivegiantscompulsive) Jonathan Mayo of MiLB.com is handicapping the draft again this season - it was he who turned me on to Lincecum, though he thought the Giants would pass him up and select Bard instead, if I remember right - and his two latest scenarios have the Giants either picking Tim Beckham or Buster Posey.

During this relative quiet time in the NFL, there are still many things happening in the sports world. One of importance is the state of the New York MLB teams. After a somewhat disappointing start for both clubs, I would like to pose a question for you. Which is more likely: the Yankees reachin...

By The San Francisco Sentinel Peter Magowan File Photo General Manager Brian Sabean, who is signed through 2009, has the support of the ownership group and could be granted more authority with the change in upper management. Save 30% on San Francisco Hotel. Expires July 11.

By Trevor Since the Giants are in a period of transition, I am going to start paying a little more attention to their minor league system this summer. The Giants Blog will now start giving monthly minor league reports, exploring what's going on in the Giants' system from AAA Fresno and below.

By Grant This isn't the start of something beautiful. This isn't the start of a legendary divisional comeback. At the very least, though, the Yankees came into San Francisco at .500, and they left under .500. Satisfaction, defined: Putting the Yankees under .500 in June. Overpriced misery loves overpr...

By John Ryder Once upon a time, the Astros had a pitching staff you feared. Roger Clemens, Roy Oswalt, Andy Petitte? Zoiks! The Giants will face Oswalt, but Taylor Buchholz? Sorry, no matter what his prospect status is, it doesn't make me quiver knowing we have the bearded menace out there on the mound to...

  USA - I've got to say yes," Alou said after Wright ... bit as good as (Jason) Schmidt and (Matt) Morris," he said ... Giants win: The Giants played one of their best games of ...

By Chris Shuttlesworth Playing a round of golf under magnificently sunny skies in the picturesque Napa Valley isn't a bad way to spend a day. Throw in sports stars, great food and supporting a good cause and you've got the Giants Community Fund's annual Yountville Golf Outing.Great day of golf benefits Junior Gia...