By Eric HeThe Associated Press OAKLAND – Jose Siri hit a late home run to take the lead for the second straight game and the Tampa Bay Rays defeated the Oakland Athletics 4-2 on Wednesday night. Siri’s 423-footer to left that scored two runs in the seventh inning broke a 2-2 tie. The center fielder […]
SAN FRANCISCO – Patrick Bailey stood outside his locker Monday night with an ice pack wrapped in tape around his right torso, smiling and giggling. The Giants’ catcher rarely pitches in the field before games; he prefers to do his preparations in the batting cages while preparing with the evening’s pitcher. But he changed his […]
OAKLAND – Jose Siri hit a two-out home run in the eighth inning to end a scoreless pitcher’s duel and give Shane Baz his first win in more than two years as the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Oakland Athletics 1-0 on Tuesday night. Baz (1-2) allowed three hits, struck out four times and allowed […]
SAN FRANCISCO – Patrick Bailey stood in front of his locker Monday night with an ice pack wrapped around his left torso, smiling and giggling. The Giants’ catcher rarely pitches in the field before games; he prefers to do his preparations in the batting cages while preparing with the evening’s pitcher. But he changed his […]
SAN FRANCISCO – A day after their farewells, Matt Chapman and Mark Canha each had a piece of the Oakland Coliseum with them. On the top shelf of Canha’s locker in his home team’s clubhouse at Oracle Park sat a small Gatorade bottle half-filled with dirt he’d picked up around home base after the Giants […]
The pitching performances of Blake Snell and Chris Sale on Monday night at Oracle Park were not only thrilling, they were microcosms. Snell and Sale had 11 and 12 strikeouts, respectively, in Atlanta’s 1-0 victory to open a key four-game series. Snell held the Braves hitless for six innings, and Sale lasted one inning longer […]
SAN FRANCISCO — The reigning National League Cy Young winner and the favorite to win the award this year met on a chilly night at Oracle Park The stars aligned for a pitcher’s duel, and Chris Sale and Blake Snell formed a constellation over China Basin. And they did so in a playoff atmosphere against […]
There is perhaps no player more closely associated with the last of the Giants’ third World Series titles in their dynastic era than Madison Bumgarner, the pitching staff’s tenacious stud who started six games this October, pitched two complete shutouts and came out of the bullpen to get the final three outs of Game 7. […]
INDIANAPOLIS – The duck is everywhere this summer, and so are the ducks. As Oregon’s mascot tours the Big Ten campuses, the football program is a staple in national championship conversations. The Ducks were ranked No. 3 in the coaches’ preseason poll released last week and are No. 2 in ESPN’s power ratings. Their odds […]
