Sabean got the team back together +/- former A's starters: The 2014 San Francisco Giants

Vin Scully after a groundout to Crawford: 'location location location, it's important in real estate and it's important in baseball'

lol, i heard that.

Vogelsong is doing it all tonight!

The Brandons

this game has been so frustrating, they should have scored a lot of runs off Beckett tonight.

nice win, will take it.

Could say the same thing about Vogelsong.

Dodgers need to not play an extra inning game every fucking day and their bullpen wouldnt be so mediocre.

chicken ~ egg

ready for round two!

Brandon Belt broken thumb.

on a HBP i hear

wtf?

again, wtf?

anyone seeing this?

big time drama

have no idea what just happened. going to be a very interesting read.

another great win

but it came at a price, losing Brandon Belt will be huge.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgersnow/la-sp-dn-dodgers-giants-tempers-flare-20140509-story.html

Puig crushed a Madison Bumgarner fastball out to dead center, and reacted a tad too much to the Giants’ liking. He tossed his bat a few feet up the third-base line, took a little time getting out of the batter’s box and did not exactly sprint around the bases.

Individually, nothing was flagrantly over the top, but perhaps collectively it seemed too much for San Francisco.

As Puig rounded third and approached the plate, Bumgarner stepped forward and said something to him, and it’s probably safe to assume it wasn’t to compliment him on how nicely he filled out that uniform.

Puig answered back in kind and the two exchanged a few more words as Puig approached the plate, hands held outward to the left-hander in one of those what’s-your-problem gestures.

Catcher Buster Posey added a comment and the entire umpiring crew moved forward as both managers came out of the dugout. Posey appeared to say something to Mattingly, who quickly responded, but things did not escalate.

Mattingly, however, was clearly still miffed about the situation and apparently let his displeasure be known to homeplate umpire Will Little, who very quickly ejected him. It was Mattingly’s first ejection of the season.

Meanwhile, almost lost in the testiness was the Dodgers again falling flat against the Giants. The defeat dropped them 4 1/2 games back of the Giants in the National League West and left them only one game above .500 (19-18).

A sweep would be a great double blow of putting them at .500 and well... a sweep.

did not think it was smart to put Cain out there in the sixth inning as he was losing location. turns out that is the inning they lost it today.

A forgot they had a game tomorrow, Hudson vs Kershaw will be great.

new game, fuck.

7-3 on this road trip and more importantly, have gone 7-3 against the Dodgers. should have hung the lost on Kershaw but needed an extra inning.

Brandon Belt's replacement essentially is Tyler Colvin, first game and first at bat is a slash hit home run.

there is some magic with this team this year!

and now a triple!

Lincecum against the Braves is always a delight.

first team in MLB to 25 wins.

giants are playing really well but I read the bullpen is bottom 5 in mlb in ks.. not gonna be throwing up sub 1.0 eras all year. just some regression bait for yas.

lol Posey

wow is right

and it cost them this game, well maybe. they were really flat tonight but that was because of the Braves pitching.

'The Giants went to a minor place, and I can say I didn't like its face.' Grant Brisbree

grant is my fav giants related thing goin these days.. i hate him for his giants fandom hehe

good pitching matchup tonight

what did Posey do?

"swung on and missed"

https://vine.co/v/MXZb0dDVwda

giants baseball torture - madbum gets knocked out of the game, giants destroy braves 10-4

did madbum spend the winter in the batting cage or something?

Hes been a good hitter since day 1 iirc

well he was 6-for-56 last year and is now 5-for-17 with a homer, double and 5 rbi already this year, and he fucking drilled a line drive foul today before striking out

smh at lefties who bat right tho

the Giant pitchers were embarrassed at last years numbers, so all of them worked hard (whatever that means) on hitting in Spring Training.

Madbum has always had a really good swing thou.

https://vine.co/v/MXZb0dDVwda

as i will look back at this and laugh, however it does appear he did tag him.

ah, well that didn't work

Tim Hudson, the Giants’ best starter in 2014, will not take his regular turn against the Marlins on Friday night due to a strained left hip, manager Bruce Bochy said, adding that the injury is not deemed serious and the Giants do not plan to place Hudson on the disabled list.

Hudson felt pain while pitching in Sunday’s 7-4, 10-inning victory against the Dodgers in Los Angeles. Bochy removed him after six innings with the Giants leading 3-2. It was the first time all season that Hudson did not finish at least seven innings. Bochy said today the hip was the reason.

Matt Cain celebrated his first win since he won at Miami on Aug. 17, 2013 and his first in San Francisco since a July 20, 2013.

just can't beat the fish.

4-3 home-stand, will take it.

huge, huge, huge series in Colorado starting tonight.

not good:

Buster Posey’s not in the lineup tonight because of nerve damage in his lower back, caused by a “funky swing I took” in Sunday’s game.

“I really don’t think it’s anything super serious,” said Posey, who guessed he’d miss a couple of days.

The Giants play a three-game series at Coors Field.

Posey said he could pinch hit, and manager Bruce Bochy didn’t rule it out.

“The swing kind of felt funny, then (the back) got a little stiff after the game and yesterday,” Posey said moments ago in the Giants’ clubhouse. “All of us deal with stiff backs a lot of times. I don’t foresee it being an issue more than a couple of days. Just try to get it to calm down a little bit.”

Asked if he’d play first base when he returns to the lineup, Posey said, “I figure I’ll go back to catching. I haven’t even considered that.”

Bochy is confident Posey will return soon and said the Giants would have made a roster move (calling up a catcher) if they believed Posey couldn’t catch in the next two or three days.

what a horrible way to lose

or an awesome way to win, if you're the rockies

yeah, that's true.