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Giants Set to Make Bizarre MLB History on Opening Day

The Giants will tie a strange, longstanding MLB record on Opening Day.

Sports Illustrated · Mar 27, 2025

One bad inning snaps SF Giants’ win streak at 7 with loss to Reds

Despite getting the longest outing of the season from Ross Stripling, the Giants weren’t able to capitalize in key spots, dealing them their first loss since the All-Star break and spelling the end of their seven-game winning streak.

Tribune News Service · Jul 20, 2023

Amid SF Giants’ youth movement, it’s veterans who step up to beat Twins

MINNEAPOLIS — Since Casey Schmitt and Patrick Bailey were called up, the rookies have seemingly done all the Giants’ heavy lifting. In a 4-1 series-opening win against the Twins on Monday, they handed the baton back to the veterans.

Tribune News Service · May 23, 2023

Evan Webeck: Five pressing questions SF Giants did or didn’t answer in spring training

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The cardboard boxes that appeared in front of players’ lockers this week slowly began to fill with their belongings and on Saturday morning were loaded into equipment trucks, their last stop on their way to San Francisco. There is no surer sign of the end of spring…

Tribune News Service · Mar 26, 2023

Rankings for Fantasy Baseball Drafts: Hitters Rising and Falling on Cheatsheet

Heading into a big weekend of fantasy baseball drafts, there are some hitters that have jumped up the rankings while others head in the wrong direction.

Sports Illustrated · Mar 24, 2023

Fantasy Baseball Risers and Fallers: Hitters

Heading into a big weekend of fantasy baseball drafts, here are some hitters to target and some to fade.

Sports Illustrated · Mar 24, 2023

Why Austin Wynns decided to re-sign with SF Giants, and where he fits in the catching competition

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — There’s something missing in the major-league clubhouse here. Or, more accurately, someone.

Tribune News Service · Feb 28, 2023

SF Giants add catching depth by signing two-time Gold Glove winner: report

With Joey Bart and Austin Wynns left as the only players in the Giants organization who had caught a game in the major leagues, and just Bart left on the 40-man roster, addressing the depth behind the plate was one of the last items left on Farhan Zaidi’s offseason to-do…

Tribune News Service · Jan 30, 2023

Castro, Cruz come up big again as Pirates defeat Brewers

MILWAUKEE — When Pirates fans envision late-game heroics from their rookie players, they probably imagine clutch base hits, maybe even a homer.

Tribune News Service · Aug 31, 2022