Giants First Half Review - Part One
giantsbaseballblog.blogspot.com 7/14/2009 — With the first half of the Major League Baseball season completed, and the all-stars of baseball all gathered in St. Louis for tonight's mid-summer classic, I figured today would be a good day to break down the Giants first half. So in the first part of review, we'll take a look at what went ...

Giants Keep On Rolling
giantsbaseballblog.blogspot.com 7/1/2009 — The stretch of baseball that the Giants have put together since late May up to now (July 1st) is probably the best 6 weeks of ball the Giants have played since 2004. After winning the first two games of their 4-game set with St. Louis on Monday and Tuesday, the Giants upped their record to ...

Around the Mission: 7/10 Padres Links
gaslampball.com 7/10/2009 — More photos » by Tony Avelar - AP about 13 hours ago: San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Tim Lincecum throws to the San Diego Padres in the first inning of a baseball game, Thursday, July 9, ...

Giants First Half Review - Part II
giantsbaseballblog.blogspot.com 7/17/2009 — Even though they sit atop the NL Wild Card standings and carry the second best record in the National league as the second half kicks off on Thursday, the Giants still have some issues that need to be addressed if they're serious about making a real run for the postseason. Last post we broke ...

The Most Unlikely No-Hitter
outsidetheboxscore.blogspot.com 7/11/2009 — When you go down the list of current Major League pitchers, San Francisco Giants pitcher Johnathan Sanchez is probably the least likely to throw a no-hitter this season. However, that is what he did Friday night as he beat the Padres by the score of 8-0 . Sanchez who was demoted from the ...

Are the Giants This Good?
passion4baseball.blogspot.com 6/30/2009 — There was no way that anyone could have predicted that the National League West would have the three best teams in the National League. The Dodgers have had the best record in the National League (and probably all of baseball) since April. The Rockies have surged since firing Clint Hurdle and ...

Are the San Francisco Giants Going to Make a Deal for Freddy Sanchez?
bleacherreport.com 7/7/2009 — According to San Francisco Chronicle writer Henry Schulman, the San Francisco Giants have just demoted Matt Downs to Fresno, and have reactivated Rich Aurilia from bereavement leave following the Giants' 9-0 win on Saturday over the Houston ...

Salvation in sight for San Francisco
thegoodpoint.com 7/27/2009 — Life has been good for the San Francisco Giants. At the All-Star break, the Giants led the National League Wild Card standings by two games with a record of 49-39. Right-hander Tim Lincecum was the NL starter at the All-Star Game and is the reigning NL Cy Young Award winner....

Offense Obsolete in Pittsburgh
giantsbaseballblog.blogspot.com 7/19/2009 — The Giants did manage to score a couple of runs on Sunday to support Matt Cain's strong start and salvage their finale in Pittsburgh, but look no further than the offense as far as why the team lost this series. In the first two games after the all-star break, the Giants mustered just 1 run on ...

Surprising Giants Looking Like a Playoff Team
majorleagueblogging.com 7/6/2009 — I’ve been quiet for a while now. Things have been so good lately as a Giants fan that frankly there’s less to complain about (and therefore less to write about). For starters, I was WAY off base about how awful the bullpen was going to be. Despite rocky patches, Wilson and Howry ...

Cautious Giants pull Cain from All-Stars — Major League Baseball News 7/12/2009
Hit below his throwing elbow by a line drive in his start against the San Diego Padres on Saturday, Matt Cain has ceded his spot on the National League roster to Pittsburgh Pirates hurler Zach Duke.

Big flies highlight Padres' romp — Major League Baseball News 7/12/2009
Kevin Kouzmanoff and Eliezer Alfonzo each hit three-run home runs Sunday to lead the Padres to a 10-4 victory over the Giants at AT&T; Park in the last game before the All-Star break for both teams.

Padres power up to beat Giants — Boston.com -- Baseball News 7/12/2009
Kevin Kouzmanoff and Eliezer Alfonzo hit three-run homers, Will Venable also homered and set a career-high with four hits, and the San Diego Padres beat the San Francisco Giants 10-4 to snap a season-high seven-game losing streak.

Padres power up to beat Giants — SFGate: Top Sports Stories 7/12/2009
Kevin Kouzmanoff and Eliezer Alfonzo hit three-run homers, Will Venable also homered and set a career-high with four hits, and the San Diego Padres beat the San Francisco Giants 10-4 to snap a season-high seven-game losing streak. Kevin Correia ...

Padres cruise past Giants, 10-4 — L.A. Times - Baseball News 7/13/2009
Kevin Kouzmanoff and Eliezer Alfonzo each hit three-run home runs. > San Diego 10, at San Francisco 4: Kevin Kouzmanoff and Eliezer Alfonzo each hit three-run home runs, Will ...