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Bonds to donate equipment to Hall

Right as I’m ready to pack it in and vie for a Morris for Saltalamacchia trade, the Giants take two of three from the Yankees, then take a thriller from the Padres in which the bullpen imploded, re-ploded, then pitched well enough to give the offense a chance to scrape a run across off of […]

Reliving the Big Apple’s ‘Glory Days’

Alright, maybe not “beautiful” but watchable baseball? Maybe.
This years incarnation of the Giants is never going to be a great one but they’ll win the occasional game. We must exercise caution and not get too excited, the Giants are not a playoff team and in no way should we get our hopes up. But, a […]

Alfonso Soriano gave Chicago a perfect ending to a ninth inning that already featured a blown five-run lead and a fan charging at Cubs closer Bobby Howry. Soriano’s two-run single in the bottom of the ninth inning gave the Cubs a 10-9 victory over the…

Giants bounce back for third straight win

Rookie pitcher Tim Lincecum emerged from the darkness Monday night, and the Giants moved one step closer to joining him. The road to their third consecutive victory took some odd turns, but they got there, beating the San Diego Padres 4-3 in 11…

The punch-card-fraud period is over, the Internet fraud period (also known by the MLB tone-deafs as “surge voting,” as though that didn’t have an unintended alternate meaning) ends Sunday, and then there are the managerial selections and then the Internet…

The Giants did not get “nothing” for Armando Benitez. They got a potential closer candidate. Randy Messenger, the 6-foot-6, 240-pound Reno native who came to San Francisco in the deal, has earned greater responsibility in the bullpen based on his…

Dodgers manager Grady Little gave ace Brad Penny an extra day off so he could face NL West leader Arizona in the opener of a four-game series. Penny made his manager look smart. Extending his dominance of the Diamondbacks, Penny earned his 10th victory to…

Bonds mulling Hall of Fame donations

Mailbag: Time to start rebuilding?

Notes: Messenger is delivering

Last chance to vote Bonds, Molina

Most have heard the bad news, former Giant All Star Rod Beck has passed. The mustache, the hair, and the dangling swinging arm were all characteristics of Beck who was a 3 time All Star with the Giants. While with the Giants, Beck was a rock, a player that the manager could always go to […]

Former Giants closer Rod Beck, whose spirit flowed as freely as his long hair, and who intimidated hitters with a Fu Manchu mustache and an even more menacing split-finger fastball, was found dead in his Phoenix home Saturday. He was 38. The Giants…

Sunday was a day for big things at China Basin, good and bad. The Giants celebrated one of the greatest World Series ever played, in 1962. They also mourned the death of former closer Rod Beck, who left the fans of San Francisco so many cherished…

Everything you need to know about Rod “Shooter” Beck you learned from the bush leagues. Like: Put your money back in your pocket, dude, Shooter’s buying. Some guys will buy a round for their buddies, or maybe for the house. Beck would buy…

Roger Clemens was not supposed to pitch in the series, but after Yankees relievers threw 11 2/3 innings Friday night and Saturday, after a three-game series at Coors Field, manager Joe Torre had the Rocket pitch the seventh inning Sunday. “He…

Bobby Richardson should be the most hated man in San Francisco sports history, but Sunday when he returned to the scene of the crime (at least the same city), he was treated kindly. The Yankees beat the Giants 4-3 in the ‘62 World Series, and Sunday…