TOGETHER WE'RE GIANTS

by DrLefty October 3 has become a magical date for Giants fans. Consider: The Giants beat the Dodgers to win the NL pennant on October 3, 1962 Joe Morgan hit a homer to knock the Dodgers out of the playoffs in the final game of the season on October 3, 1982 The Giants...

by DrLefty As most of us know, the Willie Mac Award was established in 1980 to honor Willie McCovey's "quiet strength, integrity, and leadership both on and off the field." It is voted on every year by players, coaches, and training staff to honor the most...

by DrLefty I think most of you know that I retired from a long career as a university professor last year.  What you may not know is that I not only had a countdown app for the final year on my phone but also a theme song. In October 2024, we saw the Eagles play at...

by DrLefty No, there's not just "one day more" in the Giants' 2026 season, though we're not far from that now. They have 13 games left. "One day more" refers, of course, to the Giants' "magic" number that will get them to 63 wins and avoid a 100-loss season. They hit...

by DrLefty I'm tired of talking about how bad the Giants are, the countdown to avoid 100 losses, yada, yada, yada. This season started badly, stayed bad, got worse. I think the best record the Giants ever had was 2-3 (or at least that's the closest they ever got to...

    by DrLefty This has been another awful week in a never-ending series of them in this cursed 2026 season. Oh, I know you might say that the Giants at least are playing a bit better, and I'll get to that. But this week featured the following disasters: Two...

*Actually, no, we haven't by DrLefty This has been an ugly, ugly stretch of Giants baseball, and that's saying something when the season started ugly and hasn't really ever left the Ugly Zone. The Giants are 5-13 in August. They haven't won a series since the last...

by DrLefty Word of the day: execrable /ˈeksəkrəb(ə)l/ The word execrable is an adjective that means extremely bad, appalling, or of such poor quality that it deserves to be hated or cursed. Synonyms: abominable, atrocious, detestable, wretched, abhorrent Hat-tip to...

by DrLefty It's been an extremely eventful and emotional week for the Giants: a frenetic trade deadline which saw six major league players (and one low-minors prospect) leave the team while eight new players--seven prospects and one major leaguer--joined the...

DrLefty's birthday card from the Giants! by DrLefty The above image is from an email I received from "your San Francisco Giants." It included a code for 50% off a second ticket for any remaining 2026 game. Not bad. I've never gotten a birthday gift from the Giants...

by DrLefty Sorry, folks. My (relatively) upbeat column last week was a short-lived aberration from my incessant drum beat of negativity. After actually writing some nice things about the Giants, I was "rewarded" with a very desultory five-game losing streak that...

by DrLefty Some of you have commented that the Giants seem to save their real stinkers for Friday nights, and then I have to sit down and write Out of Left Field on Saturday morning. Why, it was just a week ago Friday that Caleb Kilian blew (another) save and the...