Braden Gem Spoiled As Giants Top A's In Final Tuneup
The Giants begin their title defense Thursday at the rival Los Angeles Dodgers. Oakland opens the regular season at home against the Seattle Mariners on Friday night.
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The Giants begin their title defense Thursday at the rival Los Angeles Dodgers. Oakland opens the regular season at home against the Seattle Mariners on Friday night.
The defending world champion will open the season without its star closer. Brian Wilson will be placed on the disabled list with an injured oblique muscle.
Pablo Sandoval, San Francisco's slimmed-down, free-swinging slugger, hit an RBI double in the second inning of the Giants' 4-1 victory over the Oakland A's Tuesday night.
The former head trainer for the San Francisco Giants told the jury in Barry Bonds' perjury trial Tuesday that the home-run champion became significantly more muscular during the 1999 season.
40,000 fans showed up at AT&T Park in San Francisco Monday night for a game that didn't mean anything.
Barry Bonds' former mistress was scheduled to testify this week when the slugger's trial resumes.
Matt Cain looked strong over 5 1-3 innings Monday night in his final tuneup for the regular season, striking out six and walking one in a 4-3 victory over the A's.
San Francisco Giants closer Brian Wilson isn't likely to be ready to play by opening day for the World Series champions.
A self-described bunch of castoffs and misfits somehow pulled off the improbable and won a long-awaited title for the Giants, the franchise's first since moving West in 1958 and first overall since the New York Giants won in '54.
Both the San Francisco Giants and Oakland A's are back in the Bay Area after spring training in the desert, and will meet in exhibition games this week. Madden notes the Giants' playoff run and World Series effectively extended their season by a month.
The defending champion San Francisco Giants head back to the Bay Area with some uncertainty in their roster.
Grady Sizemore ran, dove and slid without incident in another important test in his recovery from knee surgery for the Cleveland Indians in an 8-5 loss to the San Francisco Giants on Saturday night.
The Royals battered Madison Bumgarner for eight runs on 10 hits, six of them for extra-bases, in beating the Giants 15-3 Friday night.
