San Francisco Giants

Braves hit 4 HRs, use 8-run 5th to hold off Giants 12-11

Lane Adams delivered a pinch-hit, three-run homer in Atlanta's eight-run fifth inning and the Braves beat Matt Cain and the San Francisco Giants 12-11 in a rain-delayed game Thursday night. The Braves won three of four in the series to cap San Francisco's 1-7 road trip. Adams' homer was the

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  Matt Adams, R.A. Dickey lead Atlanta Braves to rout of struggling San Francisco Giants

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  Austin Slater's homer leads San Francisco Giants comeback win over Atlanta Braves

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SF Giants Minor Lines 6/22/17

Baseball is so full of comings and goings and we had some of both yesterday. On the day that Kyle Crick finally made his major league debut (successfully!), the org said goodbye to one of his old teammates, releasing OF Tyler Horan. Horan, the Giants 2013 8th round pick out of Virginia Tech had a big

Cain's double plates a pair

Starting pitcher Matt Cain rips a two-run double to right field that gives the Giants a 3-2 lead in the top of the 2nd inning

Posey's solo homer in t he 2nd

Buster Posey skies a fly ball over the wall in right field for a solo home run that cuts the Giants' deficit to 2-1

Giants notes: Dave Righetti encouraged by Sam Dyson

ATLANTA – The Giants have several decisions to make over the coming weeks as they seek to shed roster pieces that no longer serve them while identifying others that could contribute in 2018 and beyond. They might have already found some wheat among the chaff. Right-hander Sam Dyson threw a pair of impressive

Giants fall to Braves 12-11, finish trip 1-7

ATLANTA — Big-leaguers don't get much sympathy if they grumble about travel schedules. They fly first class. Stay at the best hotels. Travel with a team cook. Never carry baggage. Still, sometimes the travel gets ridiculous. The Giants waited through a 1-hour, 26-minute rain delay Thursday night,

On Brandon Belt and his barreled-bat percentage and exit velocity

ATLANTA - Brandon Belt has been making better contact lately, or so it appears, but the results aren't always evident. Make a perfect shot in basketball, the ball goes in the hoop. Hit the ball on the barrel in baseball, it's doesn't always fall. Belt was out of the lineup in Thursday'

Matt Kemp's 2-run HR in 11th lifts Braves past Giants 5-3

The Braves are making a habit of winning games in their last at-bat. They've done it more than any team in the majors. Matt Kemp hit a two-run homer off Cory Gearrin in the 11th inning to lift Atlanta to a 5-3 win over the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday night. The homer, the third of the game

Johnny Cueto is likely to opt out, and the Giants aren't interested in an extension

Johnny Cueto is not having an All-Star season. He's still planning to opt out of his Giants contract. You should not be surprised by this. Jon Heyman is reporting that Cueto will opt out of the remaining four years, $84 million on his contract, which makes sense because he'll likely get more

Should MLB fix home plate collision rule after Anthony Rizzo's slide?

Anthony Rizzo's collision with Austin Hedges has caused some to question whether the league should be tougher with its punishments.

Defense falters as Braves blow late lead

After controlling the game for seven innings, a disastrous eighth inning doomed the Braves in a 6-3 loss to the Giants on Tuesday night at SunTrust Park. Austin Slater made the Braves pay for a critical mistake with a wall-scraping home run over the right field fence to turn a 2-0 game into a 3-2 Giant

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  Giants beat Braves; not a misprint

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  Slater's 3-run homer leads Giants to 6-3 win over Braves

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Giants rally to beat Braves on Slater's three-run homer

ATLANTA – Giants players gathered in a back room for a quick meeting prior to Tuesday's 6-3 victory over the Braves. Judging from the peals of uproarious laughter that filtered into the clubhouse, they weren't going over scouting reports or listening to a Come to Jesus sermon. Bruce Bochy heard

Slater's clutch go-ahead dinger

Austin Slater lines a ball over the right-field wall for a go-ahead three-run home run in the top of the 8th inning

Giants send RHP Law to minors after dismal outing vs. Braves

ATLANTA (AP) - San Francisco Giants reliever Derek Law was optioned to the minors on Tuesday, a day after facing six batters without getting an out in the series opener against the Atlanta Braves. The Giants recalled right-hander Kyle Crick from Triple-A Sacramento, giving the former first-round draft

Giants send RHP Law to minors after dismal outing vs. Braves

ATLANTA (AP) - San Francisco Giants reliever Derek Law has been optioned to the minors a day after facing six batters without recording an out in the series opener against the Atlanta Braves. The Giants recalled right-hander Kyle Crick from Triple-A Sacramento on Tuesday, giving the former first-round

• Clippers 9, Braves 3 | Ronny Rodriguez's three-run homer sparks Clippers

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  Matt Adams, R.A. Dickey lead Atlanta Braves to rout of struggling San Francisco Giants

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Here's how #FirstGifComesUpForYourName looks for a slew of top sports figures

All morning and afternoon on Tuesday, the hashtag #FirstGifComesUpForYourName was trending on Twitter.The premise was as simple as it sounds: Put your name into the GIF search box on Twitter and post the first GIF that comes up.For example, here's Giants outfielder Hunter Pence participating in

Inside the millions at stake on baseball's pitching mysteries

Johnny Cueto and Masahiro Tanaka are hurting the coming free-agent starting-pitching market. They have pitched poorly enough that they may not opt out of their contracts or – if they do make themselves free agents – would have teams wondering about their skills. Not long ago, this looked like a strong

2017 RWJF Sports Award Winners Announced: San Francisco Giants, The Moyer Foundation, and PeacePlayers International

Princeton, N.J.—The San Francisco Giants Community Fund, The Moyer Foundation, and PeacePlayers International have been selected as 2017 winners of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Sports Award. The winners will receive a $7,500 cash award and will be honored at a September 13, 2017 ceremony

Giants demote Law, call up Crick

The disappointing Giants, in their most disappionting stretch of one of their most disappointing seasons, demoted reliever Derek Law to Triple-A Sacramento a day after he gave up four runs without retiring a batter. The Giants hope to do better with Kyle Crick, who's being called up from Sacramento