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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Giants End First Half on a Roll
giantsbaseballblog.blogspot.com 7/12/2009 — Even though the Giants couldn't complete the 4-game sweep of the Padres on Sunday, they still took 3 of 4 from San Diego, and enter the all-star break with the second best record in the National League at 49-39. Once again, it was the starting pitching that paved the way for the Giants in the ...

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....

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 ...

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 ...

Cain and Lincecum Named All-Stars
giantsbaseballblog.blogspot.com 7/6/2009 — The 2009 Major League Baseball all-star rosters were announced on Sunday, and, as expected, the Giants had their top two starting pitchers named to the NL's squad. However, not all the Giants that were deserving of the honor got the nod. Pablo Sandoval, who's leading NL third basemen in OPS and ...

Offense Comes Alive Vs. Astros
giantsbaseballblog.blogspot.com 7/4/2009 — The Giants put up one of their most impressive offensive showings of the year Friday night at AT&T Park against the Houston Astros , banging out 15 hits and scoring 13 runs en route to a 13-0 victory! Leading the offensive charge for the Giants were Nate Schierholtz , Pablo Sandoval and ...

Review of San Francisco
myteamrivals.typepad.com 8/4/2009 — The following is a review of the Giants ballpark in San Francisco , the fans and the city overall.   Yesterday, I took a tour of AT & T Park before departing for home.   The park, like most, has its ups and downs.   The first thing that strikes you is the view.   ...

The New York Giants Were Starting to Fold — Bleacher Report - MLB 7/14/2009
On September 6, 1934, the New York Giants' lead over second place St. Louis was seven games, which was viewed as a comfortable margin. The Cardinals were idle the next day, but the Cubs beat New York to chop one-half game off the Cardinals' deficit. ...

The San Francisco Giants All-Star Break Awards: "Entourage"-Edition! — Bleacher Report - MLB 7/14/2009
With the first half of the season officially over and the Giants getting ready to battle for playoff spot in the second half, I think it is a good idea to look over some of the highs, lows and everything in between of the Giants' surprising 49-39 ...

Here's a Thought: Matt Cain Isn't Making Any Progress — Bleacher Report - MLB 7/14/2009
Entering the year, it seemed that Giants fans were looking for Matt Cain to take a big step forward and join Tim Lincecum as a second ace in the San Francisco rotation. With a 10-2 record and 2.38 ERA, Cain looks to have blown his 8-14, 3.76 ERA ...

Giants Prospect Buster Posey Officially Promoted to Triple-A Fresno — Bleacher Report - MLB 7/14/2009
The Fresno Grizzlies' Web site has confirmed that Buster Posey, a former top pick of the San Francisco Giants, has been promoted to join the team, skipping Double-A Connecticut. The Fresno Bee is reporting that Posey will be with the team ...

San Francisco Giants Involvement With Roy Halladay Could Work — Bleacher Report - MLB 7/15/2009
Roy Halladay is the American League's best pitcher and the Toronto Blue Jays have every right to ask for everybody's top prospect in return. Furthermore, now that the Jays are falling out of the race they have decided to So, where do the rancisco ...