Baseball Historians

The Giants may have finished in the cellar this year, but if you’re a glass half full kind of guy, you can take a look at the farm club and find a lot of positives.  The teams system was highly successful, but as the Giants Organization Review discusses, a lot of the top notch talent [...]

San Francisco wrapped up the 2008 season this afternoon with 3-1 win over the Dodgers. Tim Lincecum earned his eighteenth win of the year, giving him a final record of 18-5, with a 2.62 ERA.
Lincecum also picked up thirteen strikeouts over seven innings pitched. He gave up just four hits and two walks, allowing Los [...]

The Giants have had a rough week to close out the season, going 4-1 so far. After losing last night 2-1, Tim Lincecum will wrap up the season this afternoon at 1:05 p.m. to try to strengthen his case for a Cy Young bid.
Matt Cain put in a solid effort in attempting to help the [...]

The Giants have gotten off on the wrong foot on this final homestand, getting pounded by Colorado. Jonathan Sanchez did not do much better than Tim Lincecum the other night against the Rockies, losing last night 15-6.
Sanchez had a tough outing, getting knocked around for seven runs on seven hits and a walk in just [...]

Tim Lincecum will get one last chance to prove himself Cy Young worthy, but last night’s performance might have hurt his chances. The Giants dropped the first game of their final homestand of the year 9-4, but the offense made the most of their few opportunities.
Colorado wasted little time getting to Lincecum, and forced him [...]

A pitcher’s duel became a battle of the bullpens in Sunday afternoon’s series finale at Los Angeles. The Giants prevailed, scoring a the lone run in the eleventh inning, and hanging on to win 1-0.
Matt Cain pitched six scoreless innings, but could have gone longer if his pitch count was not as high. He limited [...]

Barry Zito led the Giants to victory last night, putting an end to their four-game skid. San Francisco went on to defeat the Dodgers 7-1, with the help of a four-run sixth inning.
Zito looked like the Zito of the past last night, allowing just one run through seven and two-thirds innings. The one run he [...]

The 1-0 lead did not look like it would hold, even with Tim Lincecum on the mound, and it did not. In the end, the Giants and D-backs traded runs, but Arizona prevailed, winning 3-2 to sweep the four-game series.
Lincecum was dominant, and came within a strike of bailing himself out of a sixth inning [...]

Despite taking a 3-0 lead in the first inning, the Giants were done in by a five-run second inning, that resulted in a 7-6 loss to Arizona. With last night’s loss, San Francisco was mathematically eliminated from any postseason chances.
Jonathan Sanchez recieved an early three-run lead to work with, but gave it back just as [...]

For the second straight night, the offense had trouble putting up any earned runs against the D-backs, managing just four hits in tonight’s 2-0 loss. Two solo homers by Chris Snyder and Stephen Drew ultimately defeated the Giants.
Like Brad Hennessey last night, Matt Cain made just two mistakes that directly resulted in tonight’s loss. He [...]

After being defeated on Thursday night, San Francisco came right back against tough opposing pitcher Jake Peavy, and beat him 5-2. The offense gradually scored some runs against the ace as they were led to victory by several rookie bats.
Jonathan Sanchez put up a quality start that helped improve his chances at defeating the Padres. [...]

For the second straight game, Eugenio Velez led the Giants to another walk-off win against the D-backs to complete the sweep and extend San Francisco’s win streak to five. The 4-3 win, was another tough comeback effort in which closer Brian Wilson struggled for the second straight save opportunity.
Brad Hennessey did a nice job, taking [...]

The D-backs and Giants traded runs last night, but in the end San Francisco prevailed, winning in the bottom of the ninth inning 5-4. Eugenio Velez’ game-winning single picked up Brian Wilson after he had blown the save only minutes earlier.
Barry Zito had a decent day, his curveball was working, it struck out nine batters, [...]

Tim Lincecum came close to a complete game shutout, but had to be bailed out of trouble in the ninth inning of the Giants 6-2 win over Arizona. San Francisco put up yet another big inning, leading to them to their third straight victory.
Lincecum bounced back after having a rough start last week. He had [...]

Thanks to another big inning, the Giants took the weekend series from Pittsburgh after dropping the first game on Friday. For the second night in a row, San Francisco used a huge inning to lead them to a comeback win, today’s was double the size of last night’s. A ten-run fourth inning resulted in a [...]

Having Thursday off did not help the Giants, their bats relaxed too much in last night’s 7-0 loss to Pittsburgh. The pitchers did not do that well of a job either, allowing fifteen Pirates hits.
The pitchers let Pittsburgh score little by little. Kevin Correia started the game and went just four and a third innings, [...]

Barry Zito helped the Giants put an end to their five-game losing streak win a 9-2 victory in the series finale at Colorado. The offense improved off a last night’s five-run performance, and looks to be benefitting from the expanded September rosters.
Zito had a great day, earning his ninth win of the season. He went [...]

With Tim Lincecum starting for the Giants, a win would be near guaranteed, but the worst inning of his career last night ultimately led to a 6-5 loss in extra innings to Colorado. The Giants were able to rally back from being down five runs, but fell in the twelfth inning.
Lincecum lasted just five innings [...]

The long Labor Day weekend could not have gone any worse for the Giants, getting swept by a weak Cincinnati team, and dropping today’s game to the Rockies 4-0. The Reds averaged eight runs over the weekend, knocking the Giants pitchers around.
Jonathan Sanchez put together a nice quality start, but got no run support in [...]

After being swept in Houston it looked as if the Giants were about to have a rough road trip, but they turned it around tonight in Atlanta with a 5-1 win. Matt Cain continued to dominate in the second half.
Cain has been improving his record in the second half of the season by adding a [...]

After nearly losing Tim Lincecum in the series, the Astros completed a four-game sweep over the Giants with a 7-4 finale win. A late three-run homerun in the eighth inning broke a 4-4 tie to give Houston four more wins over what is now an eight-game winning streak.
Kevin Correia was given a lead to start [...]

After limping off the field in last night’s loss, Tim Lincecum appears to be OK. He took a line drive off the bat of Brad Ausmus in the fifth inning in the back/side of his right knee before falling to the ground. Thankfully, X-rays were negative, but whether Lincecum will make his next scheduled start [...]

The bullpen was rocked tonight in a 12-4 loss to the Astros, but it was not their only loss. After earning close to a fourth of the team’s wins this season, ace Tim Lincecum was literally knocked out of the game after taking a line drive off his knee in the fifth inning.
Lincecum was cruising [...]

Jonathan Sanchez no-hit the Astros through the first five innings of tonight’s game, but they eventually got to him. San Francisco took a 1-0 lead in the third inning, but it wouldn’t hold up and Houston would come away with a 3-1 win in the opening game of the four-game series.
Sanchez retired Houston’s batters rather [...]

For the second time in less than a day, the Giants pulled off another stunning walk-off win to give them the series. After getting out to a 3-1 lead and trading runs several times with the Dodgers, San Francisco was forced to comeback yet again, but this time in the bottom of the ninth to [...]

After the Dodgers broke a 1-1 tie in the tenth inning, the Giants came right back in the bottom half of the frame to win in walk-off style 3-2. San Francisco has struggled with the Dodgers this year, but may have just turned things around with this win.
Pitching controlled the outcome of this game, both [...]

The Giants dealt with newly acquired Dodger Manny Ramirez well, giving him a hitless night in five at bats, but a bad inning cost them the game. A big five-run third inning led to a 6-2 Giants defeat.
San Francisco lost the game because of one bad inning, unfortunately a baseball game is made up of [...]

With the exception of yesterday’s game, this series against the Braves can be considered a success. This afternoon Tim Lincecum was dominant yet again, earning his twelfth win of the season with a close 3-2 victory over Altanta.
Tim Lincecum was given a three-run lead after three innings, he gave back two of those runs, but [...]

A day after beating a weak looking Braves team, Atlanta came back to embarrass the Giants with a 11-4 loss. However, San Francisco did finally manage to hit the ball out of the park again.
Jonathan Sanchez got his control back, but also got hit around a bit. He lasted five innings, while giving up three [...]

With a sweep of Arizona this weekend, the Giants could pull within four games of the division lead, but winning the series first is all they should be focusing on. Going into the series, San Francisco find themselves seven games back of the division leading D-backs, six of the Dodgers, and one of the Rockies. [...]