After two innings, the Giants trailed 8-0. The game in Milwaukee virtually ended there. They lost 8-5. Is Barry Zito back to his old ways? Zito pitched a clunker in a season he's been surprisingly good. Does the fan base take Wednesday's ...
The San Francisco Giants could use the solid bat and steady glove of Pablo Sandoval back in their lineup, and may be getting their Kung Fu Panda back sooner than later. Sandoval tweeted on Wednesday that he took some swings off a tee, about 25 ...
On July 5, 1989, the San Francisco Giants hosted the Pittsburgh Pirates at Candlestick Park. With the Giants comfortably ahead in the ninth inning, 6-1, the Pirates had runners on first and third with one out. Jim Leyland sent Barry Bonds into the game to pinch-hit for Neal Heaton. The future all-time single season and career home run leader was mired in a slump. The night before the game, he spoke to his father Bobby in a plea for help. Bobby...
It's hard to imagine, after two wins like that, but there is an entire other universe of baseball being played right now...
Roger Clemens' perjury trial is underway, but for some reason it isn't capturing the national attention that Barry Bonds' perjury trial did. It appears that the approach is going to be to paint Clemens as a "scoundrel," who shouldn't be given credit for palling around with an upstanding citizen, who also...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Brian McNamee says he saved medical waste after injecting Roger Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs because his wife complained that McNamee was going to be the fall guy.
McNamee testified in Clemens' perjury trial Tuesday...
Lawyers for Barry Bonds told an appeals court that the former San Francisco Giants outfielder’s conviction for obstruction of justice in the government’s probe of steroid use should be overturned. Bonds, Major League Baseball’s career home ...
Federal prosecutors pursued their "crusade" against steroids in sports with "an intensity at times that bordered on zealotry," the defense lawyers said. The former San Francisco Giants star, baseball's all-time home run leader, was indicted for ...
A dealer of performance-enhancing drugs livened up the perjury trial of baseball legend Roger Clemens on Tuesday, telling jurors in a thick Bronx accent how he sold the substances to ballplayers and their associates during the height of Major League ...
Novitzky, a former IRS agent, was involved in previous steroid investigations, including the BALCO case which involved baseball home run king Barry Bonds and Olympic sprinter Marion Jones. The government must prove Clemens' steroid use in order to show he ...
Business InsiderCJ Wilson thinks Josh Hamilton might break Barry Bonds' home run recordLarry Brown SportsHe tweeted after the game that he thinks Josh Hamilton might break Barry Bonds' single-season home run record. Wilson is in a good position to make such an assessment for two reasons. One, he spent the last few seasons with the Rangers, so he knows how ...Can Josh Hamilton Catch Barry Bonds? SPORTS CHART OF THE DAY:Business InsiderGoing...
310 and then designated hitter Michael Young, who has a mark of ... but what about his prediction? Barry Bonds set the single-season home run record in 2001 with 73 and though the season is still very young, Hamilton is on pace to crush it.
Home run king Barry Bonds on Thursday urged a federal appeals court ... December to two years probation and a month of electronic monitoring at his Beverly Hills home. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston rejected Bonds' bid to set aside the ...
Well, the exact problem that haunted this team for much of 2011 came back to rear it's ugly head Tuesday night at AT&T Park, as Matt Cain's 8-inning gem went to no avail and the Giants couldn't score 2 runs against the Ricky Nolasco and the Miami bullpen.Cain Goes 8 Strong, Gets LEven though he got the win, Nolasco didn't pitch as well as Cain, giving up 7 hits over 7 2/3 innings compared to Cain's 8-inning, 4-hit outing. Problem is, the...
The Giants had their first interleague series of the 2012 season this weekend as they played host to their cross bay rival Oakland Athletics. Unfortunately, they couldn't manage to pull out a victory in Sunday's game to sweep the A's, but they did take 2 of 3 from Oakland and have beaten the A's 11 out of the last 12 times they've played at AT&T Park.Lincecum's ERA Raised to 6.04It wasn't all a cake walk though, as the Giants ace was once...
After a couple of nail-biters to start the series on Friday and Saturday, the Giants and Mets paused for mother nature Sunday due to rain, only to play two Monday, and it couldn't have worked out better for San Francisco.Lincecum gets first winTim Lincecum pitched game one, and although he was once again off with his command and, as Dave Flemming was saying, "all over the place" but he managed to minimize the damage he allowed, and the Giants...