From McCovey Chronicles

  • Giants-Pirates Series Preview - April 2024: Giants take on a heap of former Giants

    The older I get, the more my dying brain cements around the idea that fans invoke “small sample size” primarily when they don’t like the results. In a small sample size, Joey Bart is doing very nicely as a new member of the Pittsburgh Pirates, who’ve come to play the San Francisco Giants this weekend in a 3-game series. He’s 7-for-23 with a trio of dingers, a double, and 8 RBI to go with 5 walks against just 8 strikeouts. That’s a triple slash of .304/.429/.739 in a measly 28 PA. Now, it’s not...

  • San Francisco Giants: With a 10-game hitting streak so soon into his MLB career, The Jung Hoo Lee Effect is i

    Sports is tension + fun = entertainment and for the last couple of years the San Francisco Giants have lacked the “plus fun” part. Their offseason looked a lot like the last offseason where they made a lot of moves to shore up a roster that needed shoring up — save Jung Hoo Lee who, and this is no exaggeration, might already have saved the season. I cannot recall the last time I was this excited about the Giants and it’s all thanks to that Jung Hoo Lee fanclub that showed up and sat behind home...

  • How to watch San Francisco Giants vs. Miami Marlins

    The San Francisco Giants wrap up this three-game series against the Miami Marlins this morning at loanDepot Park. Taking the mound for the Giants will be right-hander Keaton Winn, who enters today’s game with a 5.06 ERA, 3.91 FIP, with 13 strikeouts to seven walks in 16 innings pitched. His last start was in the Giants’ 2-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday, in which he allowed two runs on five hits with six strikeouts and three walks in five innings. He’ll be facing off against Marlins...