Neville E. Guard-USA TODAY Sports Another fantastic start in the books. Keaton Winn did it again. On Sunday afternoon, Winn — the less heralded of the two rookies in the San Francisco Giants rotation — took the mound and delivered another knockout performance, leading he Giants to a 3-2 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates ... and a series victory. Winn went six innings deep, despite throwing just 80 pitches, and only allowed five baserunners (three hits, a walk, and a hit batter), and a lone run. It dropped his ERA all the way down to 3.18, and was the third consecutive outing in which he pitched ..read more

Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images Keaton Winn vs. Jared Jones The San Francisco Giants wrap up this three-game series against the Pittsburgh Pirates today at Oracle Park. Taking the mound for the Giants will be right-hander Keaton Winn, who enters today’s game with at 3.54 ERA, 3.96 FIP, with 23 strikeouts to nine walks in 28 innings pitched. His last start was in the Giants’ 5-2 win over the New York Mets on Monday, in which he allowed one run on four hits with six strikeouts and a walk in six innings. He’ll be facing off against Pirates right-handed rookie Jared Jones, who enters to ..read more

Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images A tied game turned into a home run blowout in the tenth inning, with the Giants falling just short of coming back, despite an excellent start from Jordan Hicks. Despite a late-inning comeback attempt, the San Francisco Giants lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates tonight 4-3 in ten innings. Jordan Hicks was the player of the game, pitching into the seventh inning with one run (that he didn’t cash in) on five hits with a career-high nine strikeouts. When he exited in the seventh, he had allowed a single to Connor Joe. Luke Jackson came in in relief after that ..read more

Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images Jordan Hicks vs. Martín Pérez The San Francisco Giants take on the Pittsburgh Pirates in game two of this three-game series tonight at Oracle Park. Taking the mound for the Giants will be right-hander Jordan Hicks, who enters into today’s game with a 1.61 ERA, 3.71 FIP, with 18 strikeouts to ten walks in 28 innings pitched. His last start was in the Giants’ 5-3 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday, in which he allowed one run on one hit with four walks in five innings. He’ll face off against Pirates left-hander Martín Pérez, who enters today’s g ..read more

Photo by Andy Kuno/San Francisco Giants/Getty Images The eye test is beginning to match the data. That’s all any Baseball fan ask. I’m going to throw a bunch of numbers at you, but please know that it’s all in service of proving that Matt Chapman is doing better now than his current season hitting line of .229/.277/.410 (.686 OPS) suggests. His single off of David Bednar in last night’s wild one extended his hitting streak to 7 games. He’s 8-for-25 with 3 doubles during this streak which began when he was hitting .200/.256/400. And if you go back to the start of the Miami series, that’s a samp ..read more

Photo by Justin Berl/Getty Images In his first reunion with the Giants since getting traded earlier this month, Joey Bart had some kind words to say about both his former and current teams. Good morning, baseball fans! With the San Francisco Giants playing the Pittsburgh Pirates this weekend, they had a very swift reunion with former Giants catcher Joey Bart, who was traded earlier this month. In an interview with Alex Pavlovic of NBC Sports Bay Area, Bart had nothing but kind words for his former organization, stating that he loved his time in San Francisco, and still thinks fondly of the fan ..read more

Darren Yamashita-USA TODAY Sports A dynamic young battery emerges. If there’s one compliment you can pay the San Francisco Giants this year, one thing that you really just admire their affluence at, it’s the ability to lose games that they probably should win. Trust me when I say that the Giants are not as adept at this as it feels like they are, but they’re still pretty darned good at it. They get picked off. They load the bases and then don’t score. They have that one inning where everything goes wrong. They’re not exactly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in the final minute of the ..read more

Photo by Justin Berl/Getty Images A look at how the 2023 Giants diaspora are doing in 2024 as Joey Bart rolls into town Old friends, or spurned ones? It’s part of the business of baseball that familiar faces become unfamiliar ones. The business of life as well. People come and go. Fandom like any other relationship comes with its doubts, fretful wonderings, and insecurities. A month in with these San Francisco Giants and all these new players—it’s only natural to check-in on those that were. Like searching up an old elementary school friend, or an ex-romantic partner on social media to see wha ..read more

Photo by Chris Bernacchi/Diamond Images via Getty Images Yesterday’s action on the Giants farm. The San Francisco Giants are back in action tonight, and their four Minor League Baseball affiliates were all in action last night. So let’s talk about them! Link to the 2024 McCovey Chronicles Community Prospect List (CPL) All listed positions are the positions played in that game. News Fangraphs just released one of my favorite annual bits of prospect literature, their list of the top 42 Giants prospects. It’s always fun to see how different people view things ... in this case, some of it quite di ..read more

Photo by Loren Elliott/MLB Photos via Getty Images Here’s what you can expect if you’re headed to Oracle Park this weekend! Good morning baseball fans! It’s time for another weekend of San Francisco Giants baseball at Oracle Park. The Giants will be welcoming the Pittsburgh Pirates to begin a three-game series before another off day on Monday. Tonight’s game does not have a giveaway, but it is a Fireworks Night, so it should be a good one to take the family to. Tomorrow night will feature a New York Giants Throwback Jersey giveaway to the first 15,000 fans in attendance. And Sunday’s game will ..read more