Giants on American Forces network Wednesday

The Sun Sets On A Mediocre Division

Signal to Noise found this 7/1/2008 on www.walkoffwalk.com

The NL West is sputtering into the break with a .500 first place team and the audacity to have the San Francisco Giants sitting only 5 games out of first place. The Giants! The team I told more jokes about in Spring Training than I told about your ...

Open Gameday Thread, 6/30

Bleed Cubbie Blue found this 7/1/2008 on www.mccoveychronicles.com

If the Giants had signed Ted Lilly to the contract given to him by the Cubs, I would have complained for a month. Lucky for us, we signed Zito, so we didn't need to sign Lilly to some long contract for too much money.     I ...

Gameday

Bleed Cubbie Blue found this 7/1/2008 on mlb.mlb.com

Giants probable pitcher Matt Cain Giants: Cain struggled in his last outing, allowing four runs and eight hits in five innings at Cleveland. That interrupted a three-game stretch in which he was 2-1 with a 2.95 ERA, 25 strikeouts and only three walks ...

The Race is On: First Pitcher to 20 Losses Wins

baker23 posted 7/2/2008 from sportsyenta.blogspot.com

Can you recall the last time we had a 20 game loser in Major League baseball? I can. It was Mike Maroth, who went 9-21 for the Detroit Tigers in 2003. Fitting, isn't it, that Maroth did so for a Tigers team that went 43-119. I still say wow whenever I see that record. A few things must go right (er, wrong?) for a pitcher to lose 20 games. First, he must be pretty bad. Maroth has since been ...

Cubs handcuffed by Matt Cain, San Francisco Giants

A Hundred Next Years found this 7/1/2008 on www.chicagotribune.com

The Cubs wasted a strong outing by Jason Marquis Tuesday night at AT&T; Park, losing 2-1 to the San Francisco Giants to fall to 1-4 on their 10-game road trip.