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By Jeremy Kahn

OAKLAND-With the end of the 2014 Spring Training, coming this weekend, there are 25 players wearing the Orange and Black that are happy that the Spring Training is over and the regular season will now begin.

Over their last 21 games, the San Francisco Giants have been on the winning end of 12 of them, and overall they are 17-12-1 during the 2014 exhibition season.

The Giants won nine out of their 15 games at Scottsdale Stadium, 8-4-1 on the road and 0-2 in what is usually the friendly confines of AT&T Park.

Against National League opponents during the Cactus League play in the State of Arizona, the Giants went 10-2, a winning percentage of .833.

Over the Giants winning percentage of .586 was the fourth highest in the Cactus League behind the Seattle Mariners (.621), the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (.621) and the Cleveland Indians (.714).

After the game today, the Giants will take Sunday off and fly back to Arizona, where they will open their 132nd season on Monday afternoon against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field.

Madison Bumgarner will take the ball for Bruce Bochy in the opener, while Kirk Gibson will send former Oakland Athletics pitcher Brandon McCarthy.

Matt Cain will head to the mound on Tuesday for the Giants, while Wade Miley will take the ball for Gainbosn’s ballclub.

The newest Giants pitcher, Tim Hudson will make his Giants debut on Wednesday, as the former A’s pitcher will face another former A’s pitcher in Trevor Cahill.

As of now, Tim Lincecum is set to pitch in the finale of the series, but that could be up in the air after the right-hander took a line drive off the left knee in Friday night’s 4-1 loss to the A’s at AT&T Park.

Lincecum was hit on the knee off a batted ball hit by A’s first baseman Daric Barton in the top of the fourth inning and left the game immediately.

X-Rays on Lincecum’s knee were negative and he was diagnosed with a contusion on the left knee.