Baseball
5/15 Gamethread: Giants vs. Dodgers
Photo by Andy Kuno/San Francisco Giants/Getty Images Logan Webb vs. Elieser Hernández The San Francisco Giants wrap up this series against the Los Angeles Dodgers tonight at Oracle Park. Taking the mound for the Giants will be right-hander Logan Webb, who enters tonight’s game with a 3.38 ERA, 2.90 FIP, with 42 strikeouts to 14 walks in 53.1 innings pitched. His last … [Read more...] about 5/15 Gamethread: Giants vs. Dodgers
Beat LA (past tense)
Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images A welcome change. There is a special thing that happens in professional sports, and baseball is certainly no exemption. When a team is falling and flailing, they desperately reach for something, anything, to catch hold of. Occasionally they’re lucky and, like an unrealistic protagonist in an action film, grab hold of a ledge with the … [Read more...] about Beat LA (past tense)
A’s bats silent in 3-0 loss to Astros
Photo by Logan Riely/Getty Images Aaron Brooks with a head-turning start though The A’s dropped their third straight game to the rival Astros, falling to their division rival by a final of 3-0 on a night the bats could only muster two hits. Right-hander Aaron Brooks, only just recalled today, made the start for the A’s in tonight’s contest. This is Brooks’ third … [Read more...] about A’s bats silent in 3-0 loss to Astros