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Clayton Kershaw Caught Giants Batter Looking With Ridiculous, Loopy Curveball

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw caught a San Francisco Giants batter looking on a wicked curveball in his return from injury Thursday.

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One bad inning snaps SF Giants’ win streak at 7 with loss to Reds

Despite getting the longest outing of the season from Ross Stripling, the Giants weren’t able to capitalize in key spots, dealing them their first loss since the All-Star break and spelling the end of their seven-game winning streak.

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Never dead: Mike Yastrzemski’s walk-off splash hits gives Giants another improbable win

SAN FRANCISCO — By now, you should know not to count out these San Francisco Giants until the 27th and final out.

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Giants walk tight rope to blank Dodgers, beat rivals for 1st time in 2023

SAN FRANCISCO — Turns out there’s a simple solution to a streaky, strikeout-prone offense: sensational pitching. That is the formula, at least, that worked for the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday night.

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SF Giants’ all-or-nothing offense comes up empty in loss to White Sox

CHICAGO — The Giants, despite their propensity to swing and miss early this season, won’t be mistaken for a team without plate discipline. Facing White Sox strikeout artist Dylan Cease on Wednesday, they watched five ball fours go by and chased him by the fifth inning.

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Michael Kopech allows five homers as Giants rout White Sox

Kopech’s fastball topped out at 97.1 mph but averaged 94.4, according to Baseball Savant. More discouraging was that the Giants squared all of his home-run pitches with conviction.

Chicago Sun-Times

SF Giants nearly make franchise history while spoiling White Sox home opener with Disco-dinger party

CHICAGO — Ringing in the White Sox home opener Monday, it was the Giants who threw a party. Call it a Disco-dinger bash.

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Evan Webeck: Five pressing questions SF Giants did or didn’t answer in spring training

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The cardboard boxes that appeared in front of players’ lockers this week slowly began to fill with their belongings and on Saturday morning were loaded into equipment trucks, their last stop on their way to San Francisco. There is no surer sign of the end of spring…

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How the SF Giants are telling the Rogers twins apart (and how to really do it)

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Tyler Rogers’ wife, Jennifer, remembers meeting his parents for the first time. She was nervous. Not about impressing her then-boyfriend’s family. She didn’t know if she’d be able to tell him apart from his twin brother, who rode along in the truck to pick her up.

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SF Giants: It’s David Villar’s time, and he knows it

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — A brand-new BMW 5 series is a big-league car. In other words, the 2022 graphite gray sedan was an appropriate offseason splurge for the 26-year-old who enters his first big-league camp as the Giants’ incumbent third baseman.

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SF Giants beat Padres to clinch first-ever .500 finish

Absent a pennant race, a division sprint or wild card wackiness, the Giants wrapped their slog to the finish line of a disappointing season on a bright note Wednesday, in an 8-1 win over the San Diego Padres.

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Joc bops, bullpen rocks as SF Giants keep rolling against Rockies

SAN FRANCISCO — It has been more than a month since the Giants’ wins last equaled their losses, but continuing their hot stretch to end the season Thursday, they moved one step closer to finishing the season at .500.

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One inning vs. Diamondbacks sinks Alex Cobb, snaps Giants’ winning streak at five

One tough-luck inning sunk the Giants Saturday against the Diamondbacks and snapped their five-game winning streak.

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Villar, Hjelle lead way as SF Giants clean up play to beat Rockies

No need for a “minor miracle” Tuesday night.

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Carlos Rodón makes history but Giants waste it in loss to Cubs

CHICAGO — It’s a shame Carlos Rodón quickly ran up his pitch count Friday afternoon at Wrigley Field, because who knows how many strikeouts he would have finished with if he were more economical.

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Dodgers rally for four runs in eighth inning to beat the Giants

LOS ANGELES – It was a rake n’ bake series.

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Giants insist they’re in playoff race but lose 6th straight to Dodgers

SAN FRANCISCO — After mostly standing pat Tuesday afternoon at baseball’s trade deadline, Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi justified his decision not to dismantle a team free-falling out of playoff position by reasoning, “a hot two weeks can turn it around.”

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SF Giants snap losing streak behind Alex Wood no-hit bid

SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Giants entered Thursday’s game looking for anything to snap their seven-game losing streak.

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Brilliant Alex Cobb, bases-loaded balk power Giants to 2-1 win over Brewers

SAN FRANCISCO — It couldn’t happen again. It wouldn’t, right? Surely, the thoughts racing through the heads of so many of the 41,257 Giants fans in attendance Saturday afternoon when Mike Yastrzemski stepped in against Brewers reliever Jandel Gustave with the bases loaded, tied at 1, in the bottom of…

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Brandon Crawford, Giants walk-off in win over Arizona Diamondbacks

SAN FRANCISCO — Brandon Crawford came to the plate with the bases loaded and one out. The game tied and a Giants win in the balance, the veteran knew what he needed to do.

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With 4 home runs, Giants erupt vs. D-backs for second rout in 3 games

SAN FRANCISCO — Whether it be wins or hits, the Giants have struggled lately to string together anything but losses. But perhaps the tides are starting to turn.

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Giants can’t ride road’s momentum into home stand, fall to D-backs

SAN FRANCISCO — On the other side of this home stand is the All-Star break. If all goes well, the Giants could enter it a resurgent bunch, recovered from their recent skid and well within reach of the playoffs. The other way? Well, it should make Farhan Zaidi’s options at…

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After latest loss, SF Giants closer to D-backs than Padres in NL West standings

PHOENIX — The Giants’ freefall continued here Monday afternoon in the airplane hangar that doubles as the home of Arizona Diamondbacks. They lost for the 11th time in 14 games and dropped their fifth straight. Once again, it came down to their putrid defense.

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