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Cupertino resident builds his own plastic field of dreams
June 30, 2020 at 12:40 PM
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"This is all brand new, it's uncharted waters, we don't really have a clear picture of what this is going to look like."
June 29, 2020 at 3:40 PM
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Bishop was initially expected to report to San Francisco for workouts this week.
June 29, 2020 at 2:40 PM
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Arizona pitcher Mike Leake and Joe Ross and Ryan Zimmerman of the Washington Nationals will opt out of their contracts in 2020 rather than play during the coronavirus...
June 29, 2020 at 1:40 PM
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There won't be a minor league season, but Joey Bart still has a realistic path to making his Giants debut this season.
June 29, 2020 at 12:40 PM
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As COVID-19 appears to rage across the country, professional sports are heading back to work. Are they coming back too soon?
June 26, 2020 at 4:40 PM
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Giants president outraged by Scottsdale councilman repeating 'I can't breathe' during an anti-mask rally in Arizona.
June 26, 2020 at 10:40 AM
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No fans can attend games at Oracle Park, but Giants season ticket holders and others can have their likenesses on display.
June 26, 2020 at 9:40 AM
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A's tie franchise record, send Giants to worst loss in their San Francisco history in 16-0 shellacking.
June 26, 2020 at 5:40 AM
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Robert Emery received Buster Posey Watch List recognition twice while playing catcher for USF.
June 25, 2020 at 1:40 PM
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Irresponsible for MLB, NBA, NHL, NFL, MLS and NWSL teams to play while coronavirus cases, hospitalizations rise.
June 25, 2020 at 6:40 AM
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The freakish star blanks San Diego to become the first San Francisco Giants pitcher to throw multiple no-hitters.
June 25, 2020 at 5:40 AM
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Spitting and instigating fights are strictly prohibited, but chewing gum is permitted in the new world of Major League Baseball
June 24, 2020 at 5:40 PM
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The Giants need to take advantage of this season's strange opportunity and sign the best available free-agent bat.
June 24, 2020 at 3:40 PM
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All-Star outfielder Charlie Blackmon of the Colorado Rockies has become the first Major League Baseball player known to have tested positive for the...
June 24, 2020 at 9:40 AM
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Major League Baseball players agree to report training starting July 1.
June 23, 2020 at 6:40 PM
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Major League Baseball will have a season this summer, but it will be played amongst dirty laundry.
June 22, 2020 at 6:40 PM
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The league is asking players to report to camp by July 1.
June 22, 2020 at 3:40 PM
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Will Clark on his game-ending heroics: "When I get comfortable at the plate, I get what I call the 'Superman effect."
June 22, 2020 at 5:40 AM
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Promising first-round left-handers could bring a winning culture to the Warriors and Giants.
June 20, 2020 at 5:40 AM
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The San Francisco Giants reportedly have closed their spring training facility Friday in Scottsdale, Arizona, after someone who visited the complex recently developed...
June 19, 2020 at 5:40 PM
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Giants first baseman Brandon Belt is selling his mansion in Lufkin, Texas, for $875,000.
June 18, 2020 at 1:40 PM
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Longtime sportswriter for East Bay Times/Mercury News -- he was on the scene when Joe Montana and Dwight Clark connected for "The Catch" -- announces his...
June 18, 2020 at 12:40 PM
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Baseball players proposed a 70-game regular-season schedule Thursday, leaving them and management 10 games and about $275 million apart on plans to start the delayed...
June 18, 2020 at 12:40 PM
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Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred and players union executive director Tony Clark re-opened talks geared toward getting baseball back on the field, MLB Network's Jon...
June 17, 2020 at 12:40 PM
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No. 85 overall pick in MLB Draft reportedly offered $2.5 million signing bonus to forgo UCLA commitment
June 17, 2020 at 11:40 AM
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Former Giant Aubrey Huff won't wear coronavirus masks, rips Gregg Popovich, Steve Kerr and LeBron James over racial injustice protests.
June 17, 2020 at 10:40 AM
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Willie Mays hit his 615th career home run, and Ernie Banks belted his 504th in a 1970 Giants-Cubs game at Candlestick Park.
June 17, 2020 at 5:40 AM
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Mike McCormick returned to Giants in 1967 after four seasons in the American League, That year he 22 games and the Cy Young Award.
June 16, 2020 at 10:40 AM
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Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred said on Monday he is "not confident" a 2020 season will happen now that the players' union broke off talks about a...
June 15, 2020 at 3:40 PM
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Giants used a National league record 64 players last season. Team's operations analyst: "If you can help the Giants win games, you'll be playing in San...
June 15, 2020 at 12:40 PM
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Giants star pitcher blanks Houston Colt .45s for first no-hitter in Candlestick Park history.
June 15, 2020 at 5:40 AM
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MLB may face a lockout and the free agency market could go into decline.
June 14, 2020 at 4:40 PM
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Hot-hitting Mike Benjamin gets a record 14 hits over three games with San Francisco.
June 14, 2020 at 5:40 AM
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The Giants have members from several different departments within the organization prepared to pitch in with the recruiting process.
June 13, 2020 at 6:40 AM
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Giants pitcher gets some help from his defense while throwing the first perfect game in team's long and storied history.
June 13, 2020 at 5:40 AM
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Major League Baseball has offered players 80% of their prorated salaries and a 72-game regular season starting July 14
June 12, 2020 at 1:40 PM
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The MLB Draft gave baseball fans a reason to get excited again. Can the league keep the momentum going?
June 12, 2020 at 10:40 AM
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Led by first round pick Patrick Bailey, the SF Giants went heavy on college players at the top of the 2020 MLB Draft.
June 12, 2020 at 9:40 AM
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The left-hander is the first high school player the Giants have taken in the 2020 MLB Draft.
June 11, 2020 at 5:40 PM
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MLB Draft: After choosing NC State Wolfpack catcher Patrick Bailey in Round 1, the SF Giants have six picks on day two of the draft.
June 11, 2020 at 3:40 PM
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Coronavirus stalled the sports calendar but many events are back in the plan. Here's what we know.
June 11, 2020 at 2:40 PM
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An organization that soon expects top prospect Joey Bart to play every day took catcher Patrick Bailey in the first round.
June 11, 2020 at 6:40 AM
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MLB Draft: The Giants have six more selections in the 2020 draft.
June 10, 2020 at 5:40 PM
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The move should help the Giants recruit undrafted amateur talent when this week's five-round MLB Draft concludes.
June 10, 2020 at 2:40 PM
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Major League Baseball can reportedly start as soon as July 10th. Will you still tune in?
June 10, 2020 at 1:40 PM
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Heliot Ramos, Joey Bart and Hunter Bishop are three of the Giants' top prospects. Who will be the next No. 1 pick to join an emerging farm system?
June 10, 2020 at 11:40 AM
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Marlins star pitcher nearly threw a perfect game against the Giants, but settled for having the last no-hitter ever at Candlestick Park.
June 10, 2020 at 5:40 AM
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MLB did not appear to view the proposal as productive but made no comment. MLB Network's Jon Heyman reported that one ownership source's reaction to the proposal was...
June 9, 2020 at 8:40 PM
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The Giants hold four of the top 68 picks in the 2020 MLB Draft and have a chance to dramatically increase the farm system's depth.
June 9, 2020 at 1:40 PM
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"A lot of the players that we talk with, we spend time with and scout, they identify with the Giants and the World Series runs."
June 9, 2020 at 12:40 PM
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Unheralded Giants rookie pitcher stuns Mets by no-hitting them in just his 13th MLB start.
June 9, 2020 at 5:40 AM
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"The number one thing I can do right now is carefully listen to black people," Kapler wrote. "I can hear their stories, their experiences and their pain. I can ask...
June 8, 2020 at 2:40 PM
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Two years after drafting catcher Joey Bart, the Giants are again exploring the idea of drafting a catcher with their first round pick.
June 8, 2020 at 1:40 PM
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The roar of the crowd has been such a staple of major sports, such an advantage for the home team, that NFL clubs have been accused at times of artificial...
June 8, 2020 at 8:40 AM
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Randy Johnson became the first pitcher to win his 300th game in a Giants uniform since Christy Mathewson in 1912.
June 4, 2020 at 5:40 AM
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Major League Baseball rejected the players' proposal for a 114-game schedule, telling the union that teams have no reason to think 82 games is possible and now will...
June 3, 2020 at 12:40 PM
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Giants owner Bob Lurie insists the team will not play at Candlestick Park beyond the expiration of their lease in 1994.
June 3, 2020 at 5:40 AM
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Aubrey Huff's first career three-homer game came on his wife's birthday. "She wanted me to hit her a home run. I hit three. That's Brownie points."
June 2, 2020 at 5:40 AM
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Heralded San Francisco rookie gets three hits, three RBIs in his season debut.
May 29, 2020 at 5:40 AM
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The coronavirus pandemic is decimating minor league baseball, with "hundreds" of players released on Thursday and hundreds more expecting the same fate, ESPN's Jeff...
May 28, 2020 at 3:40 PM
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Giants slugger blasts No. 715 to eclipse Ruth at No. 2 on baseball's all-time home run list.
May 28, 2020 at 5:40 AM
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Players will take at least a few days and possibly until next week to respond to Major League Baseball's latest proposal to salvage pandemic suspended season.
May 28, 2020 at 4:40 AM
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The Major League Baseball team owners know how to play the game, so they're embarrassing the players in restart negotiations.
May 26, 2020 at 2:40 PM
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Motivated by the unveiling of Juan Marichal's statue, the Giants scored three runs in the first inning against the A's.
May 21, 2020 at 5:40 AM
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Bonds' milestone home run was caught in the bleachers by a teenage fan who is not a Bonds fan and who left before the game was over.
May 20, 2020 at 5:40 AM
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California is eyeing the first week of June to begin to allow live pro sporting events, as well as "a number of other sectors" of the economy, "if we hold these trend...
May 18, 2020 at 1:40 PM
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When will sports come back? As soon as the lawyers figure it out.
May 14, 2020 at 4:40 PM
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Former A's and Giants pitcher Barry Zito turned out to be the Rhino
May 13, 2020 at 10:40 PM
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Former Giants star tells how a chance meeting 40 years ago led to a job offer that has him working 6,000 miles from home.
May 11, 2020 at 3:40 PM
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Each team would play about 82 regular-season games, most against opponents in its own division with interleague matchups limited to AL East vs. NL East, AL Central vs...
May 11, 2020 at 12:40 PM
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Just 0.7% of Major League Baseball employees tested positive for antibodies to COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus.
May 11, 2020 at 7:40 AM
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Facing his former Giants teammates three days after his trade to the New York Mets, Willie Mays hit a game-winning home run.
May 11, 2020 at 5:40 AM
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California won't reopen sporting events to fans until immunity to COVID-19 has increased and a vaccine is widely available, per Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan.
May 8, 2020 at 4:40 AM
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We've been without major American sports for a month and a half now.
May 2, 2020 at 6:40 AM
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For both Bay Area teams, credits and full refunds will be available for season ticket holders, as well as for single-game tickets, only for March, April and May...
April 29, 2020 at 2:40 PM
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After opening with six losses in a row at Pac Bell Park, Barry Bonds' home run gave San Francisco its first win there.
April 29, 2020 at 5:40 AM
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Optimism is rising that the MLB can set a season start date, play at least 80 games, per reports.
April 28, 2020 at 1:40 PM
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A week after a lawsuit was filed against MLB, baseball will offer refunds on tickets to postponed games.
April 28, 2020 at 12:40 PM
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Chinese Professional Baseball League, Korean Baseball Organization and National Rugby League have plans in place to start their seasons. What can it tell us about the...
April 28, 2020 at 6:40 AM
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