Community Picks: Miami Marlins 0% vs San Francisco Giants 0%

A look at Barry Bonds’ celebration cake before being honored on the Giants Wall of Fame. Saturday was a big day for Barry Bonds. After being welcomed back into the San Francisco Giants organization as an adviser following years of strained and tense relations, baseball’s all-time home run leader was honored with a spot on the club’s Wall of Fame. Continue to Article

July 08, 2017 8:42:pm EST

San Francisco Giants reliever Mark Melancon likes to eat crickets. Melancon considers himself an adventurous eater, but extended his diet even further last month at the Sweets and Snacks Expo in Chicago, when the Giants were in town for a series against the Cubs. Aketta frames their flavored, roasted crickets as a high-protein source that has the “taste and smell profile of sunflower seeds and roasted nuts.” They can be plucked out of a bag like chips,…just don’t expect people to think you’re eating chips. Continue to Article

July 06, 2017 11:57:am EST

Before he stares down the toughest bats in the National League West, Madison Bumgarner will have to cool off the hottest team in the California League. The San Francisco Giants ace will face the Modesto Nuts in a rehabilitation start on Monday, July 10. First pitch is 7 p.m. The Nuts (47-36) have won seven of their last 10 games and boast the best record in the California League, three games better than Lancaster (44-39) and Rancho Cucamonga (44-39), the South’s co-leaders. Modesto held a five-game advantage over the Stockton Ports (42-41) in the North going into Wednesday’s game against Visalia. Bumgarner, who injured his left shoulder and several ribs in a dirt bike accident in April, began Continue to Article

July 05, 2017 12:56:pm EST

Christian Arroyo can't be any more unlucky. The Giants' top prospect returned from the Triple-A DL Saturday night with the Sacramento River Cats and was hit on the same injured left hand at the plate in his second at-bat.  Immediately, Arroyo slammed his helmet down as he shouted in pain.  Arroyo suffered a broken left hand, Bruce Bochy announced to reporters in Pittsburgh Sunday and is scheduled to miss at least two months.  "You're looking at a couple of months if not longer," Bochy said, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. "It's broken pretty good." Bochy is no doctor, but the news was clear at his first sight of Arroyo's X-rays.  “You know how hard X-rays are to see? Any of us can see Continue to Article

July 02, 2017 4:34:pm EST

Christian Arroyo can't be any more unlucky. The Giants' top prospect returned from the Triple-A DL Saturday night with the Sacramento River Cats and was hit on the same injured left hand at the plate in his second at-bat.  Immediately, Arroyo slammed his helmet down as he shouted in pain.  Arroyo suffered a broken left hand, Bruce Bochy announced to reporters in Pittsburgh Sunday and is scheduled to miss at least two months.  "You're looking at a couple of months if not longer," Bochy said, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. "It's broken pretty good." Bochy is no doctor, but the news was clear at his first sight of Arroyo's X-rays.  “You know how hard X-rays are to see? Any of us can see Continue to Article

July 02, 2017 1:18:pm EST