OUT OF LEFT FIELD

Full box here This has been a physically and mentally grueling stretch for the Giants. Before Thursday's off-day, they'd played 16 straight games that included series against division leaders (Braves and Brewers), last weekend's showdown series against the Dodgers,...

Full box here Aloha from the beautiful island of Maui, where we've been for nearly a week now. I have a big day of lounging around planned (and OK, watching some college football and the Giants game), so let's focus just on reveling in last night's unlikely win rather...

The Giants had a really good week, going 5-1 while moving through a three-city road trip that included the A's in Oakland, the Mets (who until recently were a first-place team and who still have some good hitters and relievers), and now the Braves (first-place team)....

The Giants went 7-2 on their recently concluded homestand and have won 7 of their last 10 games, and I'm no math whiz, but that's playing .700 ball. So why does it feel like it's all falling apart? Yes, I'm sure my perspective is skewed a bit by having attended...

Raise your hand if you were delighted yesterday when you heard the news that Brandon Crawford had signed a two-year, $32 million extension with the Giants. OK, raise your other hand if two years ago, you were calling him "Pizookie" and scorning him for taking the...

Baseball pundits have long referred to August as the "dog days" of the long season.  (If you're curious about origin of the expression "dog days," as I was, you can read about it here in the Farmer's Almanac. Spoiler: it's related to astronomy, not actual dogs.) It's...

We waited and waited and waited and waited. We saw Starling Marte go off the board and Brad Hand and Craig Kimbrel and Joey Gallo and Anthony Rizzo and Javier Baez and Jose Berrios and then, worst of all, BOTH Max Scherzer and Trea Turner go to the $^%# Dodgers. The...

Ugh. Greek Giant gets to write about the two thrilling ninth-inning comeback wins, and I get a lackluster sloppy loss to a last-place team. Added to their poor performance in Pittsburgh in May, the Giants are now 2-3 against the lowly Bucs and need to win both games...

Full box here And in the first game out of the 2021 All-Star break, the San Francisco Giants were propelled to victory when a three-run homer by LaMonte Wade Jr. broke a 1-1 tie. The winning pitcher was [checks notes] Jay Jackson, making his Giants debut. There was...

Giants top prospect Marco Luciano [Photo credit: Cody Glenn/Icon Sportswire]   One could quibble over whether the "halfway point" of the baseball season is when a team hits the 81-game mark (as the Giants did a week ago) or the All-Star break (this weekend). As...

Last night's Giants game marked the halfway point of their season, and just like we all predicted back in March, they were led to their 51st victory by Steven Duggar, LaMonte Wade Jr., and Thairo Estrada. Seriously, that was an amazing debut game by Estrada, and if I...

  Full box here What a week! Since Out of Left Field posted last Sunday morning, the Giants have gone 4-0, a run that includes two shutouts, a couple of high-scoring beatdowns, the weirdest game you'll ever see (the Wednesday afternoon game in Anaheim), and the...