HISTORICAL FACTS: 2 - Caught on Camera

This Has To Be The Worst Called Strike of the MLB Season

Come on, blue!

Sports Illustrated · Apr 10, 2023

Behind-the-Plate View of Tyler Rogers’s Rising Slider is Just Silly

What is this sorcery?!

Sports Illustrated · Mar 28, 2023

How new SF Giants starter Ross Stripling developed his unique pitching method

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Standing an athletic 6-foot-3, Ross Stripling wants you to know that he can dunk. This is important because, as Stripling says with a chuckle, “I don’t have PTSD.” And wouldn’t you, if one attempt went so awry that it put your leg in a cast?

Tribune News Service · Mar 22, 2023

Giants’ bullpen game not good enough, win streak snapped vs. Dodgers

LOS ANGELES — A taxed Giants bullpen was asked to cover every inning against the Dodgers on Tuesday night with Alex Wood on the injured list, but all it took was a blip from one reliever to snap San Francisco’s four-game win streak.

Tribune News Service · Sep 7, 2022

Brilliant Alex Cobb, bases-loaded balk power Giants to 2-1 win over Brewers

SAN FRANCISCO — It couldn’t happen again. It wouldn’t, right? Surely, the thoughts racing through the heads of so many of the 41,257 Giants fans in attendance Saturday afternoon when Mike Yastrzemski stepped in against Brewers reliever Jandel Gustave with the bases loaded, tied at 1, in the bottom of…

Tribune News Service · Jul 16, 2022

Jack Suwinski homers three times to power Pirates' walkoff victory over the Giants

PITTSBURGH — This season was supposed to be about the Pirates employing a left-handed hitter with a pretty and powerful swing, one capable of crushing homers and sending the PNC Park crowd home happy. Shoot, this homestead was supposed to be about that stuff.

Tribune News Service · Jun 19, 2022

With 4 more HRs, SF Giants salvage home stand by clinching series vs. Mets

SAN FRANCISCO — There was no possible way, no imaginable scenario, that Joc Pederson and the Giants could find an encore Wednesday to match the maniacal back-and-forth with the Mets from the previous night, featuring three Joc Jams.

Tribune News Service · May 25, 2022

Yep, yep, Yepez: Rookie delivers double that snaps ninth-inning tie, slingshots Cardinals to 3-2 win

SAN FRANCISCO — After back-to-back games when they squeezed one run from nine innings of opportunity, the Cardinals did a remix of their lineup and, as a new rhythm took hold, introduced a hitter they once thought was going to be part of their season all along.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · May 7, 2022

Giants lose 4th straight in series opener against Cardinals

SAN FRANCISCO — It doesn’t qualify as a free fall, but then again it’s not something the home fans are used to either.

Tribune News Service · May 6, 2022

Padres beat Giants by playing long and short game; Rogers twins make history

SAN FRANCISCO — The Padres beat the Giants 4-2 thanks to one big hit and some little ones, as well as a sliding catch by Jurickson Profar that took away another big hit.

Tribune News Service · Apr 12, 2022