Warriors Review: November 16 vs. Utah (102-88 Win) The Utah Jazz used to be Hall-of-Famer John Stockton scrambling around in too-small shorts, finding the brawny frame of Hall-of-Famer Karl Malone for a near-automatic bucket as Hall-of-Famer Jerry Sloan emitted his legendary ... (Continue reading)
Brandon Crawford Brandon Crawford opened the 2013 season hitting like an All-Star-to-be, drilling five home runs by April 21 (he had four all of 2012). But the power dried up, and the 26-year-old's offensive contributions dipped from noteworthy to barely adequate—though ... (Continue reading)
All season long, through the early good times and the recent bad-to-terrible times, I've implored San Francisco Giants fans—loyal and capricious alike—to stay on the ship. There is no worse non-criminal life form than the bandwagon fan—but the raging, pessimistic fan ... (Continue reading)
Twelve games under .500 for the first time since the end of a 72-90 2008 season, the defending World Series champion Giants who visited President Obama at the White House on July 29 really had no business being there—because this ... (Continue reading)
When the San Francisco Giants touched down at CVG Airport in Cincinnati, they still lacked center fielder Angel Pagan and starting pitcher Ryan Vogelsong. They didn't have reliever Santiago Casilla or swingman Chad Gaudin.But the Orange and Black did have something ... (Continue reading)
With a record of 23-15 on Mother's Day, the defending champion San Francisco Giants—under siege from injuries, hamstrung by a dormant offense and let down by a generally unreliable starting staff much of the season—own a 15-25 post-Mother's Day record, ... (Continue reading)
Save for Juan Perez's throwing arm and Hunter Pence's clutch defense, opportunities to cheer the San Francisco Giants in recent weeks have been sparse.Long power outages, baserunning blunders, two players injured while sliding and three others injured by the baseball ... (Continue reading)
22 years ago, the Houston Astros gave their first base job to rookie Jeff Bagwell, after acquiring him from Boston six months prior. He went on to win Rookie of the Year that season. Three years later, he was the ... (Continue reading)
Let's get all the cheesy jokes out of the way: Can we throw these Marlins back into McCovey Cove? Aren't fish supposed to be the ones that stink? Did the San Francisco Giants get "schooled" or what?Ugh.With the Miami Heat ... (Continue reading)
(This two-part article looks back on the recent Giants clashes with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Atlanta Braves and San Diego Padres. This weekend's four-gamer with Miami will be reviewed upon its wrap.)Throughout the AT&T Park era, which began in 2000, the ... (Continue reading)