Thoughts Before the NLDS
Will Buster Posey or the J-Hey Kid win the NL Rookie of the Year award? The San Jose Mercury News wrote today about how similar the Giants and Braves are. Both teams feature great starting pitching, shut-down bullpens and average to below average hitting. The Giants will trot out Tim Lincecum, Matt Cain, Jonathan Sanchez...
Giants Make Playoffs
Giants players mob closer Brian Wilson after clinching their first playoff berth in seven years. It definitely was torture, but the Giants got it done. The San Francisco Giants (92-70) beat the San Diego Padres (90-72) 3-0 to clinch the N.L. West title and advance to the playoffs for the first time since 2003. After...
Duke triumphs over Butler and other sports news
I was in Chicago for the last few days and my flight back home was during the San Francisco Giants’ opener and the men’s NCAA basketball championship. I’m kind of bummed that I missed Lincecum’s 7 innings of 0 runs and 7 strikeouts and Butler’s close loss, but I recorded the games. It seems like...
Giants Play Ball Lunch
With my favorite Giant, Matt Cain! A friend invited me to the San Francisco Giants’ “Play Ball Lunch,” a fundraiser event for the Giants Community Fund and a great opportunity to get autographs and photos from all of the Giants. On Friday my dad, another friend and myself drove up to the Marriot Marquis hotel...
Giants Season Wrap-up
Cain hurls a pitch. Sandoval after a 10th inning home run. Lincecum anchoring a staff. Bengie congratulating Wilson after a save. Schierholtz watches his double. 10/12/09 As the MLB playoffs get started let’s reflect back on the San Francisco Giants’ season. If you only take away one thing from this article, know this. The Giants...
Giants Give up Hope
Zambrano shut the Giants down Friday night. 9/26/09 The Giants put forth their best pitcher Friday night against the Chicago Cubs in an apparent desperate bid to make the NL Wild Card. But despite Timmy Lincecum taking the mound, the Giants had already given up on the playoffs. Buster Posey started behind the plate for...
Madison Bumgarner
Pics from http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=518516 9/9/09 I’d like to applaud the Giants most prized minor league pitching prospect Madison Bumgarner. Bumgarner showed remarkable poise and calm by going 5 1/3 innings with 2 ER and 4 Ks against the Padres. He was thrust into his debut start in a meaningful September game without knowing in advance that...
Stanford football, giants baseball
9/2/09 I read in the San Jose Mercury News that Toby Gerhart plans on rushing for 2,000 yards this year. Toby, you’re sick because the name Toby is cool, you’re good at both football and baseball and you run guys over. But sorry, your logic of 25 carries / game + 6 yards / carry...
Back to school
8/31/09 I had my third day of school today and hopefully I can get back into the routine of posting blogs. I’d like to start off by complimenting my Giants for gaining 3 games on the Colorado Rockies with their sweep of them. It was their first sweep of the Rockies since 2005 and avenged...
