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Notes: Lewis back from disabled list

Bonds calls for better security

All that nonsense about “watchable baseball”, well you can ignore it. The news flash of the day is that the Giants still look completely over matched when playing baseball. It’s almost getting to a sickening point, impressive in a sad way, in the different ways this team manages to lose games. Bullpen meltdowns? That is […]

Barry Bonds said everyone could start the countdown to Henry Aaron when he hit his 750th home run. Ladies and gentleman, start your counting. Bonds hit No. 750 in the eighth inning Friday night, sending a 3-2 curveball from former teammate Livan…

The looming All-Star Game is a haven for flights of fancy, and Tim Kurkjian’s is a beauty. Imagining the mythical matchup he’d most like to see, the ESPN baseball analyst came up with Babe Ruth vs. Nolan Ryan. Hard to argue with that. Ruth is often…

Ted Williams never won a World Series. His national stage was the All-Star Game. He was an All-Star every year from 1940-60, except when serving in the military, and hit a walk-off home run in 1941, though he didn’t know it at the time — Dennis…

Rich Aurilia hopes this season becomes a story of two halves, not just for him, but for the team. In his mind, the Giants will end this run of bad baseball and start winning and he, finally healthy, will contribute to the cause. Aurilia expects to play…

Bonds hits No. 750 in loss to D-backs

Bonds hits No. 750 after fan incident

Notes: Durham has steady approach

Former San Francisco Giants manager Dusty Baker and current manager Bruce Bochy were among the estimated 200 people who attended the funeral Thursday for former major league pitcher Rod Beck. Giants owner Peter Magowan and general manager Brian Sabean…

Ultimate All-Star Mays revered by peers

The most encouraging thing about Matt Cain’s performance Wednesday afternoon had nothing to do with stats or the location on his pitches, or even the fact that he matched the grand sage of pitching for seven innings. It was how he reacted afterward, when Greg…

Matt Cain pitched his heart out, stuffed the opposing offense, got no run support and lost. There’s a new twist. Can someone change this broken record? Apparently not, as Wednesday’s 4-2 loss to San Diego attested. Cain stood on the mound with…

Rod Beck lives every time Padres reliever Heath Bell takes the mound. Giants’ fans still stunned by news of Beck’s death had to smile Monday night when they saw Bell take the mound at China Basin. He is Beck reincarnate, down to the belly, the menacing…

Stars announced for All-Star softball

Cain takes another hard-luck loss

Notes: Lincecum to start Sunday

Giants fall to Padres in extra innings

Notes: Bonds’ All-Star chances grow