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SF Giants Gameday
Bay Area News Group Giants beat reporter Kerry Crowley hosts SF Giants Gameday, which gives fans an all-access look at the 2020 season. SF Giants Gameday features interviews with players and coaches, soundbites from pre and postgame and analysis of how the franchise is navigating an unprecedented season.
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SF Giants Gameday podcast: How will the Giants rebound from their worst loss of the season?
The 2020 San Francisco Giants have had games where their pitchers let them down, their defense made mind-blowing errors and their offense never came to life. The Giants didn't have a horrible performance on Thursday at Oracle Park, but it's possible no loss will hurt the club as much as their...
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SF Giants Gameday podcast: Who's the Giants' MVP this season?
With four days remaining in the 2020 regular season, the National League Most Valuable Player race remains unsettled. Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman has had a torrid September, Padres third baseman Manny Machado is the face of one of the top offenses in baseball and Dodgers outfielder…
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SF Giants Gameday podcast: What does scoreboard watching in 2020 look like?
Before Giants left-hander Drew Smyly took the mound at Oracle Park on Tuesday night, the starter watched his old teammates in Philadelphia play a doubleheader against the Washington Nationals. Smyly enjoyed his time with the Phillies, but not enough to root for them on Tuesday. A pair of...
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SF Giants Gameday podcast: Time is running out for the Giants to take control of NL wild card race
After rebounding from back-to-back shutout losses with one of their best performances of the season on Sunday in Oakland, the Giants believed a 14-2 win over the first-place A's was the start of a push to take control of the National League wild card race. The Giants had won 13 of their last 16…
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SF Giants Gameday podcast: Who thought the Giants would still be talking playoffs?
With a week left in the regular season, the San Francisco Giants are still thinking about the playoffs. For a team that entered the year expecting to prioritize opportunities for younger and inexperienced players, the fact the Giants still have a realistic shot of playing into October is a step…
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SF Giants Gameday podcast: Are unlikely contributions a sign Giants can sustain success?
When right fielder Mike Yastrzemski left Thursday's game against the Seattle Mariners with a right calf injury, the San Francisco Giants turned to the least experienced player on their roster. Rookie Luis Alexander Basabe only had one major league plate appearance prior to subbing in for...
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SF Giants Gameday: A player-by-player evaluation after a crucial win
For the last two decades, many Giants fans have complained that opponents have consistently done a better job of making Oracle Park look "small." On Wednesday, a road team hit three home runs, but that road team happened to be wearing the Giants' home uniforms. A chaotic, quirky and...
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SF Giants Gameday podcast: What 'best news' for Kevin Gausman means for Giants' stretch run
The San Francisco Giants are gearing up to ride Drew Smyly's left arm on their postseason push. After a two-game series set to begin Tuesday in Seattle was abruptly moved to San Francisco due to poor air conditions, Giants manager Gabe Kapler announced that Drew Smyly would start the first game…
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SF Giants Gameday: Why the Giants are counting on the lineup to will the team into the postseason
The words "pitcher" and "elbow" are never ones a major league manager wants to utter in the same sentence, because doing so almost always implies trouble. Before Sunday's doubleheader against the San Diego Padres, Giants manager Gabe Kapler had no choice. When discussing his pitching plans for…
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SF Giants Gameday podcast: Giants return to field, encounter new problems in San Diego
Simply returning to the field on Sunday at Petco Park was a victory for the San Francisco Giants. It was a big "win," to resume their season against the Padres, but it was perhaps the only bright spot from a harrowing weekend for the organization on and off the diamond. After a COVID-19 scare led...
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SF Giants Gameday podcast: Farhan Zaidi, Gabe Kapler have decisions to make in rotation
Giants right-hander Trevor Cahill made the start in Thursday's series finale, but it was left-hander Drew Smyly who appeared better equipped to pitch deep into a ballgame and face an opposing lineup multiple times. Cahill struggled through three innings of work, giving up four runs on five hits…
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SF Giants Gameday podcast: Games against Padres will reveal what Giants can achieve
After winning five in a row and 15 of their last 20 games, the San Francisco Giants are one of the hottest teams in baseball. One of the only clubs that can legitimately claim it's been better over the last few weeks is a San Diego Padres team set to welcome the Giants to town this weekend....
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SF Giants Gameday podcast: Why Tuesday was Gabe Kapler's best game as Giants manager
A manager can only do so much to put his players in the best possible position to win. The ability to execute ultimately comes down to the people who take the field on a daily basis. When things go south for a team, however, a manager often takes criticism for decisions that led to undesirable...
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SF Giants Gameday: Why Giants' dominance against D'backs is one of season's top surprises
At the outset of the 2020 season, the Arizona Diamondbacks were a trendy pick to finish near the top of the National League standings and make a deep postseason run. With three weeks left in the season, the San Francisco Giants are now a surprise playoff contender thanks to their dominance over…
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SF Giants Gameday: A Barry Bonds conversation with Adam Copeland
There's a generation of baseball fans growing up around the Bay Area who experienced the joy of three World Series titles in five years during their formative years. Many fans fall in love with the game at an early age and for young Giants fans born in the 2000s, it's hard to imagine a more...
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SF Giants Gameday mailbag podcast: Examining the Giants' chances in the NL playoff hunt
It was easy to buy into the Giants' playoff chances after they dismantled the Rockies in a 23-5 blowout win on Tuesday at Coors Field. It was even easier when the club jumped out to a 4-0 first inning lead against Rockies left-hander Kyle Freeland in Wednesday's series finale. Yet every time the...
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SF Giants Gameday: Alex Dickerson's historic night is one for the record books
San Francisco Giants executive Farhan Zaidi admitted he considered trading for another left-handed bat to fortify the team's lineup ahead of Monday's trade deadline. The Giants didn't end up making that move, but their lineup against right-handed pitchers may improve down the stretch anyway. If...
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SF Giants Gameday podcast: Farhan Zaidi explains why it was a quiet deadline
The San Diego Padres are going all in for their playoff push as general manager A.J. Preller spent the last several days acquiring players to beef up his major league roster. The Arizona Diamondbacks are waving the white flag for the 2020 season as general manager Mike Hazen spent the hours…
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SF Giants Gameday: The Giants didn't provide Farhan Zaidi with any clarity this week
It felt as if Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi was the busiest executive in baseball in the hours leading up to the 2019 trade deadline. Zaidi took calls about nearly every reliever on his pitching staff and swung deals with the Braves, Brewers, Twins and Rays. The Giants…
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SF Giants Gameday: Kevin Gausman wants to stay, will the Giants keep him?
The San Francisco Giants didn't give Kevin Gausman any help on Thursday, but that doesn't mean he's begging to get out of town. After tossing 4 2/3 innings of two-run ball in a 2-0 loss to the Dodgers, Gausman was asked about the realistic possibility he could be on the move ahead of Monday's…
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SF Giants Gameday: Giants-Dodgers postponement a historic moment in baseball
SAN FRANCISCO -- When the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers agreed to postpone Wednesday's game at Oracle Park in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake, an unarmed Black man shot seven times in the back by a Kenosha, Wis. police officer, they were agreeing to mutually partake…
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SF Giants Gameday podcast: What another resilient win vs. Dodgers means for the Giants
SAN FRANCISCO -- Ninth inning deficit? Here's a Brandon Belt home run. Tenth inning deficit? Here's a Mauricio Dubón infield single. Eleventh inning deficit? Here's Evan Longoria's fourth hit of the night, a game-tying poke through the right side of the defense. The San Francisco Giants played…
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SF Giants Gameday podcast: Are the Giants playing their way out of a big trade deadline?
During the Giants' hottest stretch of the season, talk of the organization being one of the trade deadline's top "sellers" has cooled. The Giants have officially played their way back into the postseason conversation and finished the first half of their season ahead of the D'backs and Rockies in...
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SF Giants Gameday: Is it time to rethink what the 2020 Giants are capable of?
SAN FRANCISCO -- A week ago, the San Francisco Giants were in utter disarray. The club had lost five straight games, fallen to 8-16 on the season and had fans thinking about 2021 draft position instead of the rest of the 2020 season. The heartbreaking nature of the Giants' losses led to…
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SF Giants Gameday: Reliving Joey Bart's Giants' debut
SAN FRANCISCO -- Joey Bart is accustomed to being told to wait his turn. During his sophomore year at Georgia Tech, the Giants' new catcher said he dreamed of making the collegiate national team and put a ton of pressure on himself to crack a roster where spots were reserved for only the most…
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SF Giants Gameday special: Joey Bart called up for MLB debut
The wait is over for Joey Bart, San Francisco Giants fans and the growing list of players who wanted to see the top prospect in the big leagues. Bart, the No. 2 overall pick in the 2020 amateur draft, will make his major league debut on Thursday against the Los Angeles Angels and catch starter...
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SF Giants Gameday: How would the Giants fare in the AL West?
SAN FRANCISCO -- With a second consecutive blowout win over the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday, the San Francisco Giants will wake up Thursday with a chance to secure their first series win of the month. Times have been tough for a Giants team that's blown three ninth-inning leads in the last...
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SF Giants Gameday: Can the club use a blowout win as a springboard?
After five consecutive discouraging losses, the San Francisco Giants picked up a much-needed blowout win over the Angels on Tuesday in Anaheim. Seven of the team's nine batters recorded at least one hit while a struggling bullpen combined for five innings of one-run ball to capture an 8-2 win.…
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SF Giants Gameday: How can the Giants recover from this?
The Giants haven't invented new ways to lose during the 2020 season, but they have found ways to hit new depths over each of the past four days. Right-hander Trevor Gott blew his third save in three chances on Monday against the Angels as the reliever gave up a two-run, walk-off home run to…
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SF Giants Gameday: Why the bullpen is a multi-year project
SAN FRANCISCO -- When the San Francisco Giants dealt away Mark Melancon, Sam Dyson, Drew Pomeranz and Ray Black at last summer's trade deadline, it was an acknowledgement that an overmatched 2019 roster didn't have much use for a good bullpen. The Giants hung onto left-handed relievers Will Smith...
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SF Giants Gameday: Would the Giants, A's make good trade partners?
On Saturday, February 15, the San Francisco Giants and Oakland A's broke with tradition. The Bay Area rivals hadn't executed a trade since 2004, but Giants executive Farhan Zaidi and A's executive Billy Beane finally broke the drought when San Francisco sent right-handed pitcher Burch Smith to...
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SF Giants Gameday: Marco Luciano, Alexander Canario and the future
The San Francisco Giants are likely at least two or three years away from contending for a division title, but it's becoming easier for fans to get excited about the organization's future. Many of the Giants' top prospects have been standouts at the team's Sacramento alternate site this summer as...
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SF Giants Gameday: Kapler rewarded for conviction in Giants' best win
San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler has shouldered a lot of criticism for his team's performance in his first season at the helm. So when things work out in his team's favor, it's only fair that Kapler receives praise for strategic moves that paid off. Kapler made several difficult tactical...
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SF Giants Gameday: Will the league's worst defense ever improve?
Outside of Colorado Rockies star Charlie Blackmon, no player in baseball is swinging a hotter bat than Giants infielder Donovan Solano. Solano picked up two more doubles in the Giants' 6-4 loss to the Astros to improve his average to .458 this season, but with a porous glove, he's playing his way...
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SF Giants Gameday: Another controversial pitching decision haunts Kapler
The San Francisco Giants got their best start of the season from right-hander Kevin Gausman and received a clutch two-strike, two-out hit from Mike Yastrzemski to give the club the lead in the middle innings, but Gabe Kapler's club couldn't hold on to secure a series win in Los Angeles. It was...
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SF Giants Gameday: Lessons from should have been a signature win
The San Francisco Giants should have had a marquee win on Thursday at Coors Field. One of their promising young talents, Mauricio Dubón, made a leaping catch at the wall in center field and hit a go-ahead three-run home run to push the Giants ahead 3-1 in the seventh inning. A pitcher that Giants...
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SF Giants Gameday: Webb emerging, Yaz a force, Bart's ranking
The Giants billed the 2020 season as the year they'd learn all about the unproven talent in their organization. Thirteen games in, they're beginning to get some answers. Rookie right-hander Logan Webb turned in the best outing of any Giants starter this season in Wednesday's 4-3 win over the...
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SF Giants Gameday: Gausman goes home, roster decisions loom
It's difficult to envision the Giants remaining as consistently bad on defense this season in part because they're so much worse than every other team in the National League. The Giants finished Tuesday's 5-2 loss to the Colorado Rockies with three more errors, giving them a major league-worst 16...
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SF Giants Gameday: Why sloppy defense will hurt in NL West
Through 11 games, the San Francisco Giants have proven that Gabe Kapler's first team isn't all that similar to the final two or three rosters Bruce Bochy managed. Bochy's clubs were built on pitching and defense and struggled to hit during his final seasons in San Francisco. In Kapler's first two...
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SF Giants: What we know, what we want to learn about the 2020 team
SAN FRANCISCO -- Ten games into a 60-game season, the Giants are beginning to develop an identity. An offense fueled by unlikely standouts, Mike Yastrzemski and Donovan Solano, is showing resiliency and the ability to expose opponents' bullpens. A pitching staff filled with inexperienced and...
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SF Giants Gameday: Kapler's snafu, a conversation with Henry Schulman
SAN FRANCISCO -- It's too soon to know how long Giants fans will hold Gabe Kapler's 10th-inning gaffe against the team's first-year manager. If history is any indication, Kapler's self-proclaimed "screw-up" will be difficult to live down. In his seventh game as the Giants' manager, Kapler went to...
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SF Giants Gameday: Yaz walks off, Giants welcome back the vets
The San Francisco Giants haven't made anything official, but manager Gabe Kapler sounded optimistic that a pair of starting infielders would return to the lineup Thursday. The Giants have missed third baseman Evan Longoria and first baseman Brandon Belt so far, but both players are expected to…
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SF Giants Gameday: Where's the energy at Oracle Park?
SAN FRANCISCO -- The San Francisco Giants' $10 million scoreboard was malfunctioning, but no one needed a hi-definition video board to see that left-hander Drew Pomeranz looked untouchable on Tuesday evening at Oracle Park. That's a trade-off the Giants would have taken in 2019, but the…
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SF Giants Gameday: Why you'll finally see Jeff Samardzija pitch
The Giants traveled to Los Angeles for a four-game series against the Dodgers and never sent the second-highest paid pitcher on their team to the mound. Jeff Samardzija is in the final season of a five-year, $90 million contract, but first-year manager Gabe Kapler is waiting until Tuesday's home...
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SF Giants Gameday: Gabe Kapler earns first victory
A pair of Giants rookies and timely hits from a lineup loaded with right-handed bats helped manager Gabe Kapler secure his first win with his new club Saturday. After his unconventional strategy for deploying pitchers came under fire --both from opposing manager, Dave Roberts, and his own veteran...
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SF Giants Gameday: Why two blowouts could be an unsettling sign of what's to come
It's hard to imagine the Gabe Kapler era getting off to a worse start than back-to-back blowout losses to the Los Angeles Dodgers. As the Giants may find out over the next two days, things can still go down from here. Despite losing their first two games of the season by a combined score of 17-2,...
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SF Giants Gameday: An Opening Night to forget
Gone are Bruce Bochy and Madison Bumgarner. Missing were Buster Posey, Evan Longoria and Brandon Belt. And while the Los Angeles Dodgers were without ace Clayton Kershaw, the Giants' rival replaced their presumed Opening Day starter with a rookie who throws 100-mile per hour sinkers in Dustin…
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SF Giants open 2020 season vs. Dodgers
The Giants' 2020 season starts Thursday, July 23 in Los Angeles with a heavily anticipated showdown against the Dodgers. Beat reporter Kerry Crowley looks at how the coronavirus pandemic impacted Major League Baseball, how the Giants are preparing for the 2020 season and what will look different...
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Welcome to SF Giants Gameday
Beginning Thursday, July 23, Bay Area News Group San Francisco Giants beat reporter Kerry Crowley will chronicle an unprecedented baseball season with updates and analysis on a daily basis. Crowley will give you an all-access look at the team with soundbites from players, coaches and executives.
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Bay Area News Group Giants beat reporter Kerry Crowley hosts SF Giants Gameday, which gives fans an all-access look at the 2020 season. SF Giants Gameday features interviews with players and coaches, soundbites from pre and postgame and analysis of how the franchise is navigating an unprecedented season.
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