Bay Area Sports ICYMI: The Giants' Opening Day Game Featured Star Spangled Banner Smoke Show Possibly thanks to the involvement of Netflix, the MLB Opening Day game at Oracle Park Wednesday night featured a drone pyrotechnic show during the national anthem, with the American flag — ironically? — going up in smoke.
Bay Area Sports SF Giants to Open MLB’s 2026 Season Against New York Yankees at Oracle Park Wednesday The SF Giants will face off with the New York Yankees on Opening Day Wednesday, and fans who aren’t attending the game at Oracle Park will need to subscribe to Netflix to watch, plus a slew of other streaming channels throughout the season.
Bay Area Sports Many Oakland Fans Skipping A’s-Giants Series at Oracle Park This Weekend As the Athletics return to the Bay Area for the team's annual three-game series against the San Francisco Giants this weekend, many longtime fans are staying home and instead focusing their support on local teams.
Bay Area Sports The Giants Mark Midseason Fourth In NL West, But the Talent Is Shining Through Your San Francisco Giants have shown some promise after the All-Star break, despite the 53-55 record. It still may not be promise of being a playoff contender, given they are fourth in the National League West, and eighth in the Wild Card standings.
Bay Area Sports Fizzled Trades and Underwhelming Expectations: A San Francisco Giants' 2023 Season Preview As Major League Baseball tries to redefine itself and draw more viewership by speeding up the game, the Giants are, once again, a superstar-less team hoping to catch lighting in a bottle.
Bay Area Sports The 2022 San Francisco Giants' Postmortem: A Season that Began with Promise and Ended at .500 The milestone in mediocrity perfectly exemplifies the overall blah-ness of the Giants' year. Sure, back in early May, San Francisco was actually leading the NL West, and seemed as if they might once again defy expectations and make a run at the postseason. But that inertia quickly faded.
Bay Area Sports Giants Wheel and Deal on Trade Deadline, But Their Division Rivals Make One of the Biggest Moves In MLB History After weeks of wild speculation and agonizing among fans, superstar Juan Soto is headed to a California city named after a saint. No, it's not San Francisco, though the Giants will see plenty of the Dominican outfielder this season.
Bay Area Sports The San Francisco Giants Are Going Through a Rough Patch. What's the Cure? The Giants have fallen to third place in the NL West, now behind the San Diego Padres and — gag — the Dodgers; San Francisco is 9.5 games behind LA. The Giants have lost five games in a row, and 11 out of the last 14. Just two weeks ago, they were 10 games over .500, but are now 40 and 38.
Bay Area Sports Are the San Francisco Giants What Baseball Needs? Are the Giants, once again, going to defy all expectations? Is their identity forever going to be the high-achieving underdogs, the masters of making mediocrity into greatness, who are forever battling it out with their Daddy-Warbucks rivals to the south?
Bay Area Sports Giants' Alyssa Nakken Becomes First Female Coach to Take the Field in MLB History Assistant coach Alyssa Nakken took the field to coach first base, receiving a round of applause from the crowd to commemorate the first time a woman made an on-field appearance during a regular season Major League Baseball game.
Bay Area Sports Giants Season Preview: Once Again, No One Gives Us a Chance Except Us Your San Francisco Giants have their Home Opener Friday afternoon, and while the defending NL West champions are given little chance to repeat last year’s stunning success, Kapler and the Captain have other ideas.
Bay Area Sports Giants Take Game 3 With 1 Run From Longoria, Could Clinch Pennant Spot Tonight The San Francisco Giants faced off against the Dodgers Monday in a near flawless night for both teams' defense, and one home run by Evan Longoria was all it took to hold off the Dodgers and head for a potentially decisive Game 4 on Tuesday in L.A.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A's to Open Their Season Tonight With 12,000 Fans In the Stands On Thursday night, the Oakland Athletics will become the first professional sports team in the Bay Area to host thousands of fans at a game since the beginning of the pandemic, with Alameda County permitting the Coliseum to operate at 26% capacity.
Bay Area Sports [Update] The Giants Are Expecting 9,200 Fans at Their Home Opener Next Week The San Francisco Giants are going to have 9,200 fans in the stands for their home opener against the Colorado Rockies on April 9, but everyone has to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test.
Bay Area Sports Giants Begin 'Spring' Training At Oracle Park Next Week With Cardboard Cut-Outs of Fans In the Stands The San Francisco Giants are set to begin an abbreviated, 60-game season next month, with a second iteration of "spring" training happening right here in the city at Oracle Park starting July 3.
Arts & Entertainment Multiple GIFs, Photos And Video Show Hunter Strickland And Bryce Harper's Bench-Clearing Brawl The Washington Nationals' Bryce Harper was not having it when Giants pitcher Hunter Strickland hit him with his first pitch during the eighth inning of a game at AT&T Park
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hunter Pence Plans To Open Coffee Shop With Board Games, Will Play Barista For A Day Next Week If you've always wanted your half-caf soy latte to be served by Captain Underpants himself, crazy-eyed Giants right-fielder Hunter Pence will be joining teammate Denard Span on Tuesday,
Arts & Entertainment The Giants Won A Game After 17 Innings Thanks To Buster Posey It took 17 yes, 17 innings to score a winning home run at AT&T Park last night, and it took Buster Posey to hit it. Scoring the winning, walk-off homer
Arts & Entertainment Giants Struggling As Madison Bumgarner And Denard Span Land On Injured List Recently injured catcher Buster Posey was seen in an unfamiliar position Sunday as the Giants faced off in yet another disappointing game against the Denver Rockies: first baseman. As CSN Bay Area noted,
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Buster Posey Beaning By Fastball Mars An Otherwise Bright Giants Opener The Giants won their home opener Monday against the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-1, but not before young starting pitcher Taijuan Walker threw a 94-mph fastball that hit star player Buster Posey square
Arts & Entertainment Barry Bonds Returns To The SF Giants This Season As 'Special Advisor' The infamous Barry Bonds, the one-time big-hitting hometown hero who was disgraced by allegations of his use of performance-enhancing drugs and obstruction charges in a case about steroid distribution, is
Arts & Entertainment Video: Giants Fan Goes Totally Crazy Over Posey Homer During the Giants-Padres game in San Diego on Saturday night, TV cameras picked up one enthusiastic Giants fan in the stands who at one point, after already appearing once on camera, was
Arts & Entertainment Dogs Who Can Surf Being Called To Audition This Week In Oakland For Rose Parade Float Are you a dog owner who's trained your dog to surf? Because if you want some national exposure for your talented surfing pooch, you may be able to achieve that goal
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: The Giants Are Looking Really Good (And It's An Even-Number Year) Tonight, when the Giants take on the Padres in San Diego, it will mark the unofficial start to the second half of the season. And at the halfway mark, it looks like the
Arts & Entertainment Video: Buster Posey Lands Ball In Peavy's Glove When He's Not Looking During Saturday's Giants game against the Arizona Diamondbacks, MVP catcher Buster Posey went to toss a ball back to pitcher Jakey Peavy on the mound while Peavey was distracted arguing with
