San Francisco Giants News

First the numbers: Tim Lincecum is 4-0 with a 0.29 ERA and 46 strikeouts in 31 innings for Fresno, the top…

Reaction to the death of Josh Hancock, the St. Louis Cardinals reliever who was killed in a car crash early Sunday: “All of baseball today mourns the tragic and untimely death of St. Louis pitcher Josh Hancock. He was a fine young pitcher who played an important role on last year’s World Series championship [...]

Barry Bonds hit his 742nd career home run. Scott Hairston hit his 14th, and it lifted the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 5-4 victory over Bonds and the San Francisco Giants on Saturday night. Hairston, a pinch-hitter, hit reliever Vinnie Chulk’s first pitch 418 feet into the left-field seats with two runners on to give the [...]

Arizona manager Bob Melvin refused to let Barry Bonds beat him. Melvin walked Bonds intentionally three times with runners in scoring position, including in the ninth inning, and the strategy worked for the Diamondbacks in a 3-2 victory over San Francisco that snapped the Giants’ eight-game winning streak Friday night.

It was the situation Barry Bonds thrives on: runners at the corners, none out in the eighth inning of a tied game against the rival Dodgers. It didn’t turn out the way he would have scripted it, though Bonds won’t complain. After the slugger grounded into a double play that failed to score the [...]

Ray Durham succeeded where Barry Bonds failed. Durham doubled home the go-ahead run in the eighth inning after Bonds hit into a double play with runners on the corners, and the San Francisco Giants defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-4 on Thursday night for their season-best eighth consecutive victory.

Marvin Miller received a surprise backer in his quest to make baseball’s Hall of Fame: commissioner Bud Selig. Miller, who led players to free agency that has produced multimillion-dollar contracts, fell short of election from the Veterans Committee in 2003 and again this year. “The criteria for non-playing personnel is the impact they made on [...]

Barry Bonds hit his 741st career homer, a three-run shot in the first inning, Pedro Feliz had the go-ahead homer in the sixth and the San Francisco Giants beat Los Angeles 6-4 Wednesday night for their first seven-game winning streak in nearly three years. Bonds has homered in three of his last four games, moving [...]

The two Giants-Pirates games rained out earlier this month will be made up as a doubleheader on Monday, Aug. 13. The makeup doubleheader means the teams will play five games in two cities in four days. The teams play a regularly scheduled three-game series in San Francisco from Aug. 10-12, then will fly to Pittsburgh [...]

Barry Bonds hit his 741st home run Wednesday night, moving within 14 of Hank Aaron’s career record. With no outs in the first inning, the San Francisco Giants slugger sent a 1-1 pitch from Randy Wolf of the Los Angeles Dodgers into right-center field for his seventh homer of the season. The three-run shot gave [...]