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San Francisco Giants podcast with Morris Phillips: Pence buys some time from Giants shopping with game-winning two-run double

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On the SF Giants podcast with Morris:

There was so much talk about shopping Hunter Pence that it sounded like it was good as gold that he was going to get traded. Pence’s two-run RBI double might have saved his job for now in a Sunday game that won it for San Francisco.

The Giants have improved on the homestand with a 5-2 record with three more games left with Colorado starting Tuesday night. The Rockies are in fourth place in the NL West. Morris will tell us how he sees this series coming up. Giants outfielder Austin Jackson’s name had come up as being shopped by SF, but the Giants are concerned like Pence giving up Jackson–they could eat a lot of his contract.

Morris Phillips covers Giants baseball for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

That’s Amaury News and Commentary: A’s set new home run record at 25 straight games and Edwin Jackson to the rescue

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By Amaury Pi-González

The powerful A’s now own a major-league record on Sunday in Chicago. Mark Canha hit a solo home run in the fifth inning to establish a new home run record. A streak of 25 consecutive road games with a home run. Previous modern record was set in 1996 by the Baltimore Orioles. Considering how often home runs are hit these days, it will be interesting to see how long this record last. Last season was the season of the home run, a record of 6,104.

A’s are calling up journeyman pitcher Edwin Jackson. This will be his 13th team tying a major league record. The moment Jackson wears the Green and Gold, he will tie Octavio Dotel, as one of the only two pitchers in history to have pitched for 13 different teams. You need at least three mainstays in a rotation to stay afloat, especially in this very tough AL West. This is not the NL West, this is a division with the Astros, Mariners and Angels, three teams that could be playing ball in October.

Bob Melvin is one of the best managers in the game today. The two-time Manager of the Year (2007 Arizona, 2012 Oakland) has done a terrific job with a very inconsistent rotation and like an expert chemist is trying to find the formula on a team, where the bullpen is in much better shape than the starting rotation. We know that the New York Mets’ Noah Syndergaard and Jacob deGrom are not coming to Oakland. During the first half of the season we have seen Daniel Gossit, Paul Blackburn, Josh Lucas also taking the ball to start games. Daniel Mengden left a game this weekend in Chicago with a foot injury, so the A’s are calling up journeyman Edwin Jackson.

As of the start of the current road-trip in San Diego, there were three starters in the “rotation:” Sean Manaea, Daniel Mengden and Frankie Montás. We can take Mengden out for a while with that foot injury and see how Edwin Jackson will do with the Athletics uniform. From the start of this season, the A’s could have used a veteran pitcher, this team has an abundance of young pitchers with little experience. It seems like 10 years ago that Kendall Graveman opened this season for the A’s against the Angels on March 29th at the Oakland Coliseum.

The A’s have been playing good ball during this road trip against teams. They should be able to beat the Padres, White Sox and Tigers. These are teams that are at the bottom of their divisions. Yet in baseball, to be a contender you must beat these teams. Their road trip continues into Detroit for a four-game series prior to returning home next Friday from a weekend series against the AL Central leading Cleveland Indians and then a two-game set vs. the San Diego Padres during Independence week.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez does News and Commentary each week at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

MLB The Show podcast with Matt Harrington: Barreto comes through for A’s in a big way; Giants’ Stratton pitched well, but Padres get 9th inning rally

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On the MLB The Show podcast with Matt Harrington:

The Oakland A’s Franklin Barreto wasted no time in his return to the A’s line up with six RBIs and two home runs. Barreto is playing second while Jed Lowrie is playing third in place of the injured Matt Chapman during the first game of the doubleheader in Chicago Friday. Trade talk has the A’s looking to shop either Jonathan Lucroy and Jed Lowrie to get some young prospects.

The Giants starting pitchera Chris Stratton sailed into the ninth with the Giants trailing by one run 3-2. The Padres scored three runs in the top of the ninth to get some insurance runs for a 6-2 lead. Stratton said the loss was his fault and Stratton almost had a complete game.

Matt Harrington does the MLB The Show podcast on Saturdays at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

San Francisco Giants podcast with Michael Duca: Battle of Brandon Bats–Crawford and Belt hitting over .300 gives Giants’ offense a punch

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On the SF Giants podcast with Miguel:

The Giants’ first baseman Brandon Belt’s success of .304, 65 hits, 35 hits and 12 homers and Giants’ shortstop Brandon Crawford’s success of .310, 78 hits, 32 RBIs and eight home runs. Both are the main staples in the Giants’ lineup. Also, Giants’ outfielder Hunter Pence was noted as struggling as he had two RBIs last Wednesday against the Miami Marlins, but in hitting and defense, Pence has struggled. What has been his frustration?

Pitcher Madison Bumgarner improved his record to 1-2, tossing an eight inning, three-hit shutout and got bullpen help from Mark Melancon. Who closed the door on the Padres on Thursday night in the ninth inning?

Giants and Padres tonight from AT&T Park. The Giants will go with Chris Stratton 8-4. Michael goes over Stratton’s performance of late.

Michael Duca hosts the SF Giants podcast each Friday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Oakland A’s podcast with Morris Phillips: Budget crunch–A’s could share park with triple-A Nashville

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Photo credit @athletics_fanly: Former Oakland A’s pitcher Bartolo Colon pitched for the A’s with a Oakland Oaks throw back jersey during an A’s promotional day tribute to the old PCL team

On the A’s podcast with Morris:

We asked Morris his thoughts of the possibilities on the idea to bring the Oakland A’s triple-A affiliate, the Nashville Sounds, to Oakland. The money conscious-minded A’s could save a bundle from shipping players from Oakland to Nashville and vice versa by moving the team to Oakland and sharing the park with the Sounders and rename them the Oakland Oaks (named after the former PCL team in the ’40s and ’50s).

The A’s will probably own the Oakland Coliseum property soon enough and then they’ll have their say on running the facility once that’s in place. The Oaks could play at the Coliseum on days that the A’s are on the road. It would also be a good way to keep the Coliseum busy when the A’s are not using the park.

The A’s would save money on flying players back and forth from Nashville and if they would consider consolidating the the A’s and Oaks to one location. The NHL’s San Jose Sharks are doing that with their minor league club, which they moved from Worcester to San Jose, and they’ve saved a bundle on travel not to mention being able to being able to get players up to the big club by a short walk down the hallway.

If the A’s move to Jack London Square, they can continue to have the Oaks play at the Coliseum since the A’s would own the Coliseum property anyway. With the money the A’s save, they could finally have their Spanish radio broadcasters travel with the team and announce all 162 regular season games. They could afford to have them on the charter and stay at the team hotels and promote the A’s to their largest untapped audience, the Hispanic radio market.

Morris Phillips is filling in for Jerry Feitelberg for today’s podcast. Morris covers Oakland A’s baseball each Sunday home and away at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Oakland Raiders podcast with Tony Renteria: Carr entering his 5th season; Carr is expected to take Raiders to new heights

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On the Raiders podcast with Tony R:

Oakland Raiders quarterback Derek Carr is entering his fifth season for the Raiders and the Raiders hope to see Carr get off to a great start and great showing for 2018. Former head coach John Madden, who came out with “Madden 19,” and gave the overall quarterback ratings.

Of the quarterback rankings, Maddon gave Carr an 82, scoring better were just the Green Bay Packers’ quarterback Aaron Rogers with 99, only fared better than the Panthers’ Cam Newton 82, the Ravens’ Joe Flacco 77 and the Rams’ Jared Goff 81.

Head coach John Gruden said he was looking forward to seeing Carr throwing to wide receivers Jordy Nelson and Amari Cooper. They could be key all season.

Tony Renteria does the Oakland Raiders podcasts at http://www.sportsrdioservice.com

San Francisco Giants podcast with Morris Phillips and Michael Duca: Giants with lowest save percentage in NL looking for relief

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On the SF Giants podcast with Morris and Michael:

The San Francisco Giants have the lowest save percentage in the MLB. The Giants are not even in the ballpark when it comes to saves with the rest of the National League bullpens. The Giants’ save percentage is 14 saves in 30 opportunities.

Right around 52%–surprisingly, San Diego is No. 1 at 82%. Obviously, the Padres haven’t had that many save opportunities that allowed the percentages to jump up. If your closer is having a great season (statistically) and you got 14 blown saves, four of which are attributed to Giants’ relief pitcher Hunter Strickland, you have to ask how do you characterize that?

There’s much more as Michael and Morris do the Giants podcast each week at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary podcast: FIFA has positive impact on Russian economy; A’s in San Diego to open two-game series tonight

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photo from fifa.com: The Brazilians exult after scoring on Switzerland during the FIFA match in Moscow Russia during 2018 World Cup

On the podcast with Amaury:

What has it meant for the economy in Russia to have this year’s World Cup and how will it impact the Mexican, U.S., and Canadian economy for 2026. FIFA gains more interest than any other sport when the event comes up once every four years. Even non-soccer fans turn to it.

A’s open two game series in San Diego: The San Diego Padres the A’s next opponent have a similar business model to the Oakland A’s. Padres general manager AJ Preller no longer employs expensive free agents. The Padres use their farm system more, use younger players and use a few veterans.

The A’s are at .500 the 13th time this season. The A’s also will be missing Matt Chapman and Matt Joyce both on the ten day D.L. The A’s will start Paul Blackburn tonight. In his last start Blackburn got lit up by the Houston Astros at the Oakland Coliseum going 1 1/3 innings and giving up eight runs.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Spanish radio talent for the Oakland A’s, the vice president of the Major League Baseball Hispanic Heritage Museum, does a music show on KIQI radio, and does News and Commentary each week at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

 

San Francisco Giants podcast with Morris Phillips: With Posey’s injuries over the years, Bart looks to be Giants catcher in the future

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photo from abc7.com file: Georgia Tech catcher Joey Bart signed the biggest contract for a position player coming out of college with the San Francisco Giants over the weekend

On the SF Giants podcast with Morris:

It’s early, but with some of the injuries that San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey has been enduring over the last few years and currently riding the bench with hip and back issues, the Giants’ most recent signing of college phenom catcher Joey Bart gives them some confidence about their future at the position. Morris takes a look at the highly touted Bart and the Giants plans to use Bart as the catcher of the future.

The Giants’ Brandon Belt and Nick Hundley took the Los Angles Dodgers deep off starter Caleb Ferguson.  Belt ripped his 12th home run of the season and Hundley with his eight round tripper. Giants starting pitcher Chris Stratton got in a quality start going six innings, three hits, a run, one walk and struck out three hitters to shut down the Dodgers on Sunday 4-1.

Back to Bart, Bart is expected to visit AT&T Park on Tuesday night. He might even suit up and take a few swings, but that’s yet to be seen. The Giants signed Bart for a record $7.25 million the highest college signing for a position player.

Moons over Miami: Tonight the Giants host the Miami Marlins at AT&T Park. The last time these two teams met at Sun Trust Field in downtown Miami the Giants were nearly swept losing three games out of four. The Giants will start Andrew Suarez, who’s 2-4 and a 4.92 ERA in a 7:15 pm first pitch.

Morris Phillips does the Giants podcasts each Monday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

 

 

MLB The Show podcast with Charlie O: From Oak to Ok–A’s Murray will rejoin A’s next year; Giants looking to get tracked with road win tonight

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photo from normantranscript.com: The Oakland A’s Kyler Murrray joined the A’s for workouts on Saturday at the Coliseum. Murray signed with the A’s to play on the club next season as he will join the Oklahoma Sooners as quarterback in August for the 2018 NCAA season

On the MLB The Show podcast with Charlie O:

Today’s opponent for the Oakland A’s, the Los Angeles Angels, came in Friday night with a five-game losing streak, which they ended and the A’s extended their four-game losing streak to four in the loss to the Angels.

The A’s will try and reboot and get game two of this home three game series today at the Coliseum today. The A’s got a little pick me up when Oklahoma Sooners quarterback Kyler Murray was selected and worked out with the team over the weekend. Murray said he would quarterback at Oklahoma and after football season Murray will be back swinging the bats for the A’s for spring training in February.

Murray has a deal worth over $4 million with Oakland and his contract allows him to play football and go to school at Oklahoma which would be during August through early January.

San Francisco Giants update: The San Francisco Giants’ road problems continue after they dropped the opener of their three-game series with the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night 3-2 at Dodger Stadium. The Giants are suffering on offense and couldn’t rally on Friday night.

The Dodgers are fighting to get into first place and they know the Giants are in a world of pain, losing four of their last five games, and are out their All-Star caliber players: pitcher Johnny Cueto and third baseman Evan Longoria with injuries.

The Giants were missing Brandon Belt due to an appendix surgery. Belt is scheduled to be suited up at Dodgers Stadium tonight and he was on a roll before he had to have the surgery. Belt made a fast recovery and is anxious to start swinging the bats.

Charlie O does the A’s podcasts weekly and is filling in for Matt Harrington on the MLB podcast today at http://www.sportsradioservice.com