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Three-run second helps Giants, Correia

Notes: Sanchez set to rejoin Giants

With the deadline for waiver trades winding down, much to the shock and surprise of everyone, no has claimed Ray Durham, Ryan Klesko, or even the dominating Steve Kline. Building a team by trading old players for prospects is exceedingly difficult when the aforementioned geezers have no trade value to begin with. The […]

Giants third-base coach Tim Flannery does not merely wave a runner home. He screams at the player, cajoles him and sometimes follows him to the plate, his legs whipping as quickly as his windmill of a right arm. “When I send guys, I like to get in their ear…

Tim Lincecum has thrown 1611/3 innings this year, 31 in the minors and 1301/3 in the majors. The Giants believe it’s time for the 22-year-old rookie to take a step back, so Lincecum won’t make his scheduled start tonight. He’ll be moved back to Tuesday in…

In the last Giants-Nationals series, 3 1/2 weeks ago in San Francisco, the most cherished record in sports was broken. Friday night, the teams opened another series at RFK Stadium, and all that was missing was the sellout crowd, the national media and the…

The yo-yo that the Giants have forced pitcher Jonathan Sanchez to ride, from starter to reliever to starter to reliever to starter again, will take him to Arizona in October, where the left-hander will pitch in the instructional fall league. “We’ve got stuff…

Brooks-Moon succeeds in the booth

Vinnie Chulk was recently placed on the disabled list for a “blood clot” in his hand. Subsequent investigation, however, failed to reveal a clot but rather pointed to another disease process: Buerger’s disease. This disease is characterized by inflammation of the peripheral blood vessels. In its most severe […]

The Giants had a six-game winning streak snapped today, in a 8-0 loss that sourly capped a thoroughly impressive stretch.  (I must mention that I watched only one game out of the six consecutive wins, so perhaps I can best serve the Giants by not watching them play.  Thoughts?)  The defeat marked Noah Lowry’s first career […]

Lowry stumbles in finale loss to Rockies

Jeff Francis pitched a six-hitter for his second career shutout, Garrett Atkins homered twice and the Colorado Rockies beat the San Francisco Giants 8-0 Wednesday to avoid a three-game sweep. Francis (14-6) struck out three and walked one in his second…

 Do you think Dreamy is a great shortstop or an overrated one?
Do you believe Feliz is worthy of a gold glove?
Do you believe in the Wisdom of the Crowds theory
This idea states that humans collectively can identify truths in complex fields that we as individuals are incapable of detecting. To that end, sabermatic wunderkind […]

Notes: Bonds in lineup on Wednesday

Forget the win-loss record for a moment and look at the innings. Matt Cain has an important number in his sights, which he narrowly missed in his first full big-league season last year but would love to reach in 2007. The benchmark for starting pitchers in…

The Giants are thinking of skipping Tim Lincecum’s next turn in the rotation. Although his fastball velocity dipped into the high 80s in his last start Sunday, Lincecum and manager Bruce Bochy said the rookie’s pitching arm is fine. The club merely wants to…

Tobacco chewing is an addictive habit that can be difficult to break, just like smoking, but reliever Vinnie Chulk has vowed to toss his dip for good after learning the circulatory disease that has numbed the middle finger on his pitching hand is caused by…

At last, in their 31st and final game without a day off, the Giants on Wednesday looked like they trudged onto the field with the weight of a hot, sticky and burdensome August on their shoulders. In an 8-0 drubbing that ended San Francisco’s winning streak at…

By now, the idea that run differential in baseball is one of the best indicators of a team’s ultimate value is considered standard operating wisdom. It has a fancy title (Pythagorean Winning Percentage), its own formula (please, don’t make us use actual math…

Cain and Giants keep streaks live