Month: June 2015

Cleveland Cavalier's LeBron James against the Golden State Warriors in Game one of the NBA Finals. AP Photo/Ben Margot

Warriors Outlast Cavs and LeBron to take Game One in OT

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By Jeff Hall

OAKLAND –

It was a game that appeared like a football game with two great offenses that you got the feeling that the team who had the ball at the end would come away the winner. While that was not exactly how it ended, it was a wild start to the NBA Finals and it was The Golden State Warriors that out lasted the Cavaliers 108-100

Both teams had a long wait before game one, and no one seemed to have benefited from the break more than LeBron James. James seemed to be everywhere the ball was in the early going in the game. James Led the game’s scoring and had seven points quickly in the first few minutes of the contest. The Warriors seemed cold and rusty and struggled shooting at the start of the game

The Warriors were 0-3 from beyond the 3-point line until Harrison Barnes made the first long ball after the Warriors first time-out.

The Warriors were 6 for 21 shooting in the first quarter Cleveland took advantage and went on a 10-0 run late in the first quarter.  Cleveland led after the first 29-19. Lebron James had 12 first quarter points, Curry was held to just 4 points

“It was a slow start for all of us, I thought in the first half we looked nervous.”said Warriors Head Coach Steve Kerr.

In the second, the Warriors pulled within four points thanks to the bench play of Marreese Speights. Speights took charge and gave the Warriors the offensive spark they needed and seemed to heat up the play of the entire team. The Warriors recovered from a fourteen point deficit thanks to outstanding benh play.

Despite the Warriors poor shooting, they managed to stay close to the Cavaliers

The Warriors tied the game eight minutes in the second quarter thanks to the great deliverer Stephen Curry who made his first 3-point shot to even up the scoring. A Cleveland turnover and another Curry three gave the Warriors the lead in the second

JR Smith ended a wild first half with a 3-point shot in the final second of the first half to give the Cavs a 51-48 lead at the end of the first half James led all scorers with 19 first quarter points and despite the slow start, Curry finished the first half with 14 first half points. The Warriors bench gave the Warriors the lift they needed scoring 18 total points with Speights leading all bench scoring with six first half points.

The scoring remained fierce in the third quarter with the teams exchanging the lead throughout the action.

Draymond Green got himself into foul trouble when he committed his fourth foul with three minutes remaining in the third quarter. Andre Iguodala drove to the basket after a Warrior steal away from James in the final seconds of the third and the teams were tied at seventy-three. James led all scorers with 30 points by the end of the third.

LeBron was definitely the star of the game, but not even his greatness was enough to help his team pull away from the hard scoring Warriors offense and tough defense in a game that was ultimately decided by the outstanding bench play of the Warriors.

James scored 44 points for  the cavs.

Kerr had this to say about James performance. “He’s a great player and he’s a tough player to stop.  You pick your poison and you take your chances.”

Notes:

James 44 points became the highest point scoring total in his play in an NBA Finals game

In the final seconds, Curry missed a layup after being tightly defended by Kyrie Irving and allowed the Cavs and James to get the final shot of the game with the game fourth quarter.. James missed a step-back 3-point attempt and a missed second attempt by Iman Shumpert and sent the game one into overtime.

Curry scored the first points in overtime making two free-throws nearly two minutes into the overtime period

Curry was fouled again and made two more free-throws giving the Warriors a four point lead. Harrison Barnes gave the Warriors  essntially a game finishing shot with a 3-point basket with two minutes remaining in OT giving the Warriors a 7- point lead.. After the play Kyrie Irving had to leave the game as he held on to his back and struggled to get back into the locker room. Irvin has been fighting a knee injury throughout the playoffs and worked hard to be ready for play in the finals. Irving was a big part of this game on both ends of the floor and this would be a huge loss for the Cleveland if they have to go the rest of the way without him.

” I felt something a little different in my knee and couldn’t continue to play” said Irving after the game.

“I hope he’s okay, you want everyone to be healthy in the Finals. I hope he’s able to come back.” Said Kerr after the game regarding the injury to Irving.

While the Warriors appeared to be the nervous team in the beginning of the game, Cleveland looked like the unsettled team during the Overtime period The Cavs scored only a single basket thanks to a easy give away layup from LeBron James at the very end of overtime.

James led all scorers and scored a game total  44 points. Curry Led he Warriors scoring with 26 points and eight assists. Klay Thompson seemed to be just fine scoring 21 points after not knowing if he would be able to play in Game one of the finals.

“We came out of regulation flat an without the kind of energy we displayed throughout the game. It could have been fatigue.” said Cavalier’s Head Coach David Blatt.

Notes: James 44 points became the highest point total for him in an NBA Finals game.

 

Stanley Cup Finals Podcast with Joe Lami: Weird twists and turn deflections are Hawks pay day in game one win

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by Joe Lami

Chicago @ Tampa Bay 1-0 Hawks lead series: Chicago goaltender Corey Crawford who had 22 saves in game one against the Tampa Bay Lighting on Wednesday night’s 2-1 win. The Lighting exploded with shots on Crawford and it kind of helped Crawford settle in and only allowed one goal in the one goal defeat of Tampa Bay. Crawford allowed one goal on a crazy redirection it was absolutely insane. This shows the great hand of the Lighting forward Alex Killorn who scored at 4:31 in the first period.

Killorn’s shot took a crazy deflection in the left circle and was he able to get his stick on the puck and it was an amazing goal and all of a sudden towards the end of the game in the last six and half minutes that’s where the Hawks were able to completely take over the scoreboard as they controlled the latter part of the game at least in the shot department not allowing the Lighting any shots in the final frame.

In the second half of the game the Blackhawks completely dominated it and it was only game one and more importantly for Chicago it was a road game. Now the Hawks officially stole home ice away already in the first game and if the Hawks can take game two in Tampa Bay on Saturday they would have a chance to sweep when they get back to Chicago.

The Hawks key player on Wednesday night was Teuvo Teravainen who had a goal and an assist with the second Chicago goal and he provided the kind of third line production that you need to see in the playoffs. He was able to takeover and he joked with the media after the game and he said to the media “I shouldn’t have scored that first goal I’m going to have to talk to the media.”

Teravainen had two points and he was actually on the ice for all three goals that were scored in the contest and it ended up being a plus one rating. The one shot on net found the back of the net at 11:51 from Teravainen in the third period for his total ice time. The goal that was scored by the Hawks Antonine Vermette at 15:26 in the third period was on an amazing forecheck it was set up by Patrick Sharp after a dump and chase play.

It was Sharp on a forecheck that really started the play and they were able to capitalize after the puck went into slot and Vermette was able to find the back of the net to get the eventual gamer.

Joe Lami is an NHL analyst for http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to his podcast below

The A’s defeat the Tigers again , Sweep the Series

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by Jerry Feitelberg

Baseball is such a crazy game. No matter how many years one follows the game, things occur that make fans literally go insane. Take the 2015 edition of the Oakland A’s, for example. They had such a horrible start to the season. Nothing went right for the for the first 44 games of the season. They could not buy a clutch hit. Their fielding was terrible as was the bullpen, They played a lot of one-run games but could not win. However, hopefully, the team may have turned around the season as they won in Detroit Thursday afternoon 7-5 to sweep the Tigers. It was a season-high fourth win in a row for Oakland and their ninth win in the last 12 games. They are not out of the hole yet as they are still ten games under .500 with a record of 23-33, but things are looking better. The A’s Jesse Hahn pitched well as he recorded his third win of the year and his record improved to 3-5. Drew Pomeranz, working out of the bullpen, pitched the eighth and shut down the Tigers. The only sour note in the game was the performance of Dan Otero. Otero is not having one of his best years. Some of the time, Otero is good and some of the time he is not-so-good. His outing Thursday was a not-so-good outing. He retired one hitter, the ever-dangerous Miguel Cabrera but gave up four runs on four hits as the Tigers made it a 2-run game. Bob Melvin went to his closer, Tyler Clippard, for the save and Clippard came through getting  Nick Castellanos  and James McCann on flyballs to the outfield to end the game.

The A’s scored three runs in the top of the second. Josh Reddick and Brett Lawrie singled to start the frame to put men on at 1st and 3rd with no out. Eric Sogard reached on a fielder’s choice when Tigers’ pitcher Shane Greene made an error on the throw to second trying to start a double play. Reddick scored on the error. Lawrie was safe at second and Sogard was safe at first. The next hitter Josh Phegley tripled to deep center field to drive in Lawrie and Sogard.

The A’s added a run in the fourth, two in the 5th and one more in the 7th. In the fourth, Stephen Vogt walked leading off the inning. Vogt scored on a Billy Butler double to left. In the 5th, Billy Burns walked and stole second. It was the 10th steal for Burns. The Tigers issued an intentional walk to Vogt. Billy Butler singled to left. Burns scored and when Tiger left-fielder Daniel Fields overran the ball, Vogt came home with the A’s 6th run of the game.

The Tigers got on the board in the bottom of the 6th. With tow out, Anthony Gose and Jose Iglesias singled to put men on at 1st and 2nd. Miguel Cabrera singled to drive in Gose with the run. The A’s got the run back in the 7th of tiger pitcher Tom Gorzelanny. Gorzelanny walked Ben Zobrist and Stephen Vogt. With two in the inning, Brett Lawrie doubled to drive in Zobrist with the A’s 7th run.

Jesse Hahn was done after 7 innings and it looked like it was going to be smooth sailing for Oakland. Drew Pomeranz was brought in to pitch. It was Pomeranz’s first appearance since coming off the DL and he worked a scoreless 8th inning for Oakland.  Bob Melvin made the call to the bullpen. Dan Otero came in and retired the first batter he faced, Miguel Cabrera. That was they only hitter that Otero retired. Daniel Fields doubled. Ian Kinsler singer to drive in Field to make it a 7-2 game. J.D. Martinez singled. That was followed by a Tyler Collins’ home run. Detroit is back in the game trailing 7-5. Melvin brought in his closer, Tyler Clippard and Clippard retired Castellanos and McCann to end the game.

Game notes- The line for Jesse was 7 IP, 5 hits, and 1 run allowed. Hahm\n’s record in now 3-5 with a 3.51 ERA. Pomeranz went 1 inning with all zeros and Tyler Clippard earned his 9th save. Shane Greene took the loss for Detroit and his record in now 4-5. He went 4.1 innings and gave up 6 runs, but two were unearned.

The A’s move on to Boston for a three-game set at Fenway Park. It will be a battle of left-handers as Scott Kazmir will go for Oakland and Wade Miley will be on the hill for the Red Sox.

Game time will be at 4:05pm PT.

Pirates fleece Giants in an unexpected three-game sweep at AT&T Park

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By Morris Phillips

The Pirates’ memory of what transpired on October 1 is probably a lot more vivid than the collective memory of the Giants.

If so, that may explain how the hot Giants had their heels cooled by Pittsburgh in a three-game sweep at AT&T Park that concluded on Wednesday afternoon with a 5-2 Giants’ loss.

The Pirates 2014 post-season was made frustratingly brief by the Giants and Madison Bumgarner in an 8-0 shutout that sent Pittsburgh home for the winter without them even scoring a single run in the playoffs.  What’s worse is the shutout took place at PNC Park in front of disbelieving Pirates fans.  And more worse: the game was effectively over after four innings when Brandon Crawford’s grand slam gave the Giants a 4-0 lead that Bumgarner was certain to maintain.

After that harsh dismissal, it wouldn’t surprise anyone that the Pirates probably had their trip to San Francisco circled on their calendars.  In a three-game sweep in which the Pirates did everything right—especially on the mound—it sure seemed to be the case.

“We did run into a hot club that played very well,” manager Bruce Bochy admitted.  “When they didn’t hit it hard like the eighth inning, groundballs had eyes.  It was one of those series.  What could go wrong went wrong did at times.”

Francisco Liriano allowed four hits and a run in seven innings and the Giants’ hitters were stymied for the third straight day.  In each loss, the Giants scored first only to see the Pirates assume the lead and hold on.  Liriano allowed Joe Panik’s RBI single in the second, but Pittsburgh responded with single runs in the fourth and fifth, then three more in the ninth to put the game away.

Jordy Mercer homered for Pittsburgh in the fifth to give the Pirates a lead, and Jung Ho Kang had the two-run double that capped a three-run rally in the ninth.

The Giants’ lineup was missing Brandon Belt, Brandon Crawford and Hunter Pence as Bochy elected to give his heavy-use guys a day off.  Those absences boosted Liriano, who allowed the Giants fewer hits (4) than a trio of relievers that followed him in the final two frames (5). The late rally saw Belt produce a pinch-hit single and the Giants get the tying run to the plate, but the Pirates closed the door.

Reliever Mark Melancon came on with the bases loaded and one out, and he got Crawford and Nori Aoki to ground out to end the game.

The Pirates won for the 12th time in their last 16 games while the Giants have dropped five straight for the second time this season.  The Dodgers lost in Denver to the Rockies 7-6 last night allowing the Giants to stay within two games of the NL West leaders.

On Thursday, the Giants visit President Obama at the White House for the third time in celebration of their 2014 World Series victory before they open a three-game series over the weekend in Philadelphia.

The A’s beat the Tigers again behind the strong pitching of Sonny Gray.

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by Jerry Feitelberg

The A’s are on the move. They beat the Tigers 6-1 to win their fifth game out of the last six and the eighth out of the last eleven. The  A’s ace, Sonny Gray, was dominant as he went eight innings allowing no runs and just two hits. He threw 108 pitches picking up his seventh win of the year. His record is now 7-2 and he owns an ERA of just 1.65. The Tigers’ Anibal Sanchez took the loss. Sanchez is now 3-7 with a 5.67 ERA for 2015. The A’s offense was led by Billy Burns, Josh Reddick, Brett Lawrie and Billy Butler.

The A’s scored three runs in the top of the third. Brett Lawrie doubled with one out to get things going. After Marcus Semien popped out, Sanchez walked Mark Canha and Eric Sogard to load the bases. The next hitter, Billy Burns, hit the first pitch from Sanchez for a triple that cleared the bases to put the A’s up 3-0. Josh Reddick hit a solo homer in the third to put Oakland ahead 4-0. The A’s added another run in the eighth and ninth. The Tigers scored their lone run in the bottom of the ninth.

Game notes- Fernando Rodriguez relieved Gray in the ninth and gave up one run on two hits. It was the fourth time in twelve starts that Sonny Gray did not allow a run. The A’s announced that Drew Pomeranz has been activated off the DL and will be working out of the bullpen. Arnold Leon was sent back to Nashville.

The Tigers have lost six games in a row for the first time since the 2011 season.

With the win, the A’s have won the series for the second consecutive time. The A’s meet the Tigers Thursday morning at 10:05 am PT. Jesse Hahn will go for Oakland and Shane Greene will pitch for Detroit.

San Francisco Giants podcast with Michael Duca: Giants not doing so good against pitchers they face for the first time

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by Michael Duca

SAN FRANCISCO–Looking back on the Giants four straight loses the Giants lost a tough one a 8-0 shutout against the Braves last Saturday to Braves pitcher William Perez who went seven innings, four hits, three strikeouts, and improved his ERA to 2.66. The Giants never do well against new pitchers they’ve never faced before.

You can go back to the days when former Montreal Expo pitcher the late Charlie Lea who threw a 4-0 no hitter against the Giants at Olympic Stadium in the second game of a doubleheader on May 10, 1981. Lea did it against a Giant line up that was not too familiar with his pitching style. This is just how things work they’ve always been a fast ball hitting team. The Giants against Perez didn’t do so well last Saturday because he threw off the breaking pitches and that’s what the Giants struggle with when they face pitchers like that.

On Sunday’s game against the Braves in the 7-5 loss the Giants scored two early and someone asked me when the Giants are going to start coming from behind for a change instead of taking the early lead and losing it. Which they did as the Braves scored twice in the seventh and scored four times in the ninth. What happened on Tuesday night the Pirates put up a four spot to later had a lead 4-2 and then they added on in the next three innings for the 7-4 win.

What happened Sunday for Atlanta was a matter of the Giants taking the lead early 2-0 lead an later things snowballed with the Braves picking two runs in the top of the seventh and four runs in the top of the ninth. Giants reliever Santiago Casilla tried close it out but was shelled in that ninth for four runs three of them earned on three hits.

Michael Duca does Giants commentary each week at http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to his podcast below

Oakland Starts the Road Trip win a Comeback Win to Defeat the Detroit Tigers

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by Jerry Feitelberg

What’s going on with the A’s? They started off the six-game road trip with a 5-3 comeback win over the Tigers in Detroit night. The A’s are starting to look like the team that everyone hoped would compete for the top spot in the AL West. However, that did not happen  as the A’s got off to a terrible start, but the A’s have won four of the last five and seven of the last ten. In Tuesday’s game, the A’s had a quality start from Kendall Graveman and three innings of hitless relief. Evan Scribner kept the Tigers down in the 7th and 8th innings to set the stage for Tyler Clippard who closed out the win for Oakland with his eighth save of the year. The A’s played well defensively and did not make an error for the second straight game. The A’s also had a key hit in the 7th to put them ahead for good. Ben Zobrist hit a line drive over the right field fence for a grand slam. All the ingredients were in play. Hitting, pitching, bullpen, and defense. Let’s hope the Green and Gold can continue their winning ways.

The Tigers scored three runs in the bottom of the fourth. Miguel Cabrera and Yoenis Cespedes singled to put men on at 1st and 2nd. Graveman retired the next two batters but walked Tyler Collins to load the bases. Cabrera scored when Graveman uncorked a wild pitch. Nick Castellanos followed with a single to drive in Cespedes and Collins.

The A’s scored five runs in the top of the 7th. Brett Lawrie led off with a single. Lawrie advanced to second on a wild pitch. Marcus Semien followed with an infield single to put runners at 1st and 3rd. The A’s caught a break on the next play. Eric Sogard hit a ground ball to Ian Kinsler. The Tiger second baseman threw home thinking that Lawrie was running on contact but Lawrie held at third at Sogard was safe at first on the fielder’s choice to load the bases. Billy Burns singled to center to drive in Lawrie with the A’s first run.  The Tigers brought in Angel Nesbitt to face Ben Zobrist. Zobrist, batting from the left side, hit a line drive that cleared the fence for a grand slam. The A’s have the lead for the first time in the game. There was no more scoring as the bullpen shut the Tigers down the final three innings to secure the win for Oakland.

Game notes.

Kendall Graveman improved his record to 3-2. He went six innings allowing eight hits and three runs. Scribner pitched two hitless innings to record his 6th hold for Oakland. Tyler Clippard earned his eighth save and he allowed no hits in his inning of work. Billy Burns had two more hits to raise his average to .330. Brett Lawrie also had two hits and the slam was the second home run of the year for Zobrist.

After the game, Ben Zobrist had this to say. “It’s big, because I feel like that’s happened to us more than it has us taking advantage of their mistakes this year,” said Zobrist. “It had to turn around. It’s been turning around gradually, and we’re fighting and battling to get back to the kind of team we know we are. Tonight was a step in the right direction.”

“Huge momentum for us there,” said Graveman. “It was one of those games where the pace was slow, and you just felt like something had to go our way. And you get a couple plays there that go our way in that inning that maybe hadn’t gone our way all year, that gave us a little confidence, a little boost, and once that went out, that was a really good feeling in the dugout there.”

The A’s ace, Sonny Gray will pitch Wednesday night and he will be opposed by Anibal Sanchez. Game time will be at 4:05 PT from Detroit.

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Giants walk the plank

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By Jeremy Kahn

SAN FRANCISCO-After a six-game winning streak put the San Francisco Giants, the wheels have fallen off over the four days.

Chris Heston could not get out of the fourth inning, as the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Giants 7-4 before a sellout crowd of 41,913, the 356th consecutive sellout at AT&T Park.

After the Giants took a 2-0 at the end of the first inning, things seemed to be going well for the Giants; however the third inning came and everything imploded.

The Pirates scored four runs, as Andrew McCutchen got the Pirates on the board with a single that scored Josh Harrison, who led off the inning with a single. Gregory Polanco scored the tying run on a Heston wild pitch.

Pedro Alvarez then gave the visitors from the “Steel City,” a two-run lead, when he doubled on McCutchen and Starling Marte.

After the Pirates took the lead in the top of the third inning, the Giants came back to tie it up, when Brandon Crawford hit his eighth home run; however it came with a little controversy.

Pirates manager Clint Hurdle challenged the call of a home run, as it looked like a fan reached over the fence and interfered with the ball.

Hurdle’s challenge was denied, as after a four minute thirty five review, the play stood and the game was tied.

Nick Walker then gave the Pirates the lead for good in the top of the fourth inning, as he singled to score McCutchen.

Jordy Mercer gave the Pirates a two-run in the top of the fifth inning, as he hit his first home run of the season.

McCutchen then drove in the final Pirates run of the night in the top of the sixth inning that scored Polanco.

Heston lasted 3.2 innings, allowing five rubs on seven hits, walking three and striking out six, as his record fell to 5-4 on the season.

A.J. Burnett pitched five innings, allowing four runs on eight hits, walking two and striking out five and improved his record to 6-1 on the season.

Joe Panik grounded into a force play with the bases loaded to end of the bottom of the eighth inning.

Hunter Pence tried to give the Giants hope in the bottom of the ninth inning, as he led off the inning with a single off of Marc Melancon. Unfortunately, Posey and Brandon Belt each grounded out to second base, and Crawford popped out to Harrison for the final out.

Oakland A’s podcast with Charlie O: A’s putting up fight in battling to get out of the AL West basement

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by Charlie O Mallonee

DETROIT–The three game win streak that the A’s picked up is a great thing it was the first series win for Oakland since May when they took two out of three from Texas. That’s a long time between series wins and they did it again on Tuesday night winning the first of three games in Detroit with a win 5-3.

The A’s had won six of their last nine ball games and things are on the positive the A’s jumped to a 5-3 lead when Ben Zobrist hit a grand slam home run off of Tiger pitcher Alfredo Simon at Comerica Park on Tuesday night which wound up being the final score. The A’s have won four of their last five games.

The A’s are 13-25 over their last 37 games remember they started out 8-8 the season and 20-33 overall now that’s the worst in the American League. They have won four out their last six, their in the cellar in the AL West with 12.5 games off the lead. They’ve been 25 days in the cellar.

Right now it’s not about getting into first place I really believe right now the goal for the A’s has to be get to .500. If they can get to .500 then there’s a lot of opportunities and if they get to .500 their not going to be as quick to break up the team. If this team gets into late July when the trade deadline comes up as their still looking at a record as they have right now there’s going to be some players that some A’s fans like their going to be gone.

So it’s really important for the A’s to keep themselves together to keep competitive in the AL West and keep the fans interested to make their goal “let’s get back to .500”. The starting pitching for the A’s all season long has been the shining star for the Oakland A’s. There 5-2 in their last nine games they have a 1.23 ERA which every team in MLB would love to have from their starting pitchers.

The starters for the season have an ERA of 3.19 which is the best in the AL and you ask the question why are they 20-33? The don’t have the number one relief core that is part of the problem. Right now the A’s are third in innings pitched by their starters. They have gone into Tuesday night’s game 316 innings pitched by their starters.

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San Francisco Giants podcast with Jeremy Kahn: Giants want to snap loss string against Bucs before road trip

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by Jeremy Kahn

SAN FRANCISCO–The thing about the Giants loss 4-3 from Monday night is the Giants held a one run 2-1 lead and let it go and lost the ball game by a run in the late innings.. Gerrit Cole who started for the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday night is now 8-2 and came in and he’s a brother law of Brandon Crawford’s wife and is a East Bay product.

Cole is a very good young product and he’ll be with the Pirates for a very long time. Cole was able to retire Crawford into a double play and he made an out and the next time Crawford could go out and do better. In last week’s Braves series at AT&T the Giants could have won all four of those games but lost heavily 8-0 in game three and 7-5 in game four of that series.In the game against the Pirates on Monday night they could have won that game.

The Giants minor league players have been the whole key to the Giants success and look at Giants second baseman Joe Panik last season and now they have a great third baseman in Matt Duffy. These players came up here and did very well.

Giants plan to have affordable housing at AT&T Park. The Giants and San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim plan on putting an initiative on the November ballot to do construction at parking lot A to build affordable condos which is badly needed in the city. The Bay Area needs to consider more affordable housing but the Giants building affordable housing next to the ball park is a great idea. This initiative could happen or very well not happen we’ll see what happens on this coming November ballot and we’ll talk from there.

Tuesday’s Giant starter Chris Heston had been throwing some great ball he shutout the Braves in his last outing. Heston had a one run lead in the game versus the Pirates on Tuesday he has been a bullseye pitcher. His stuff has been lights out and his breaking ball has been working for him. He very well has been a great contributor the Giants shutout string that they had going in the month of May. The Pirates touched him up for four runs in the top of the third after San Francisco had a two run lead.

Jeremy Kahn is a San Francisco Giants beat writer catch his podcast below at http://www.sportsradioservice.com