It would have been a storybook ending, at least of a chapter, if the San Francisco Giants had been able to defeat the LA Dodgers last night to win their National League division series and move on, but the Giants' bats just weren't hot enough, and the Dodgers won the game 2-1 and the series 3-2.

I now find myself in the position of wanting all four ( Read more... )

I got to see, not just listen, to a San Francisco Giants game today because this afternoon's game against the Arizona Diamondbacks was a Facebook Game of the Week. I could put it on one screen while doing Day Jobbe on the other. It was Giants Torture again, but this time we came out ahead, with a home run in the bottom of the 9th with two outs to ( Read more... )

Pitchers and catchers are reporting to Giants Spring Training camp in Arizona. Soon we will have baseball again ( Read more... )

When Lisa and I left the Sparks Nugget after dinner heading to Raley's to go shopping, the Giants had a comfortable 5-2 lead going to the top of the ninth inning and we were feeling pretty good about San Francisco going back to Chicago for a decisive game 5. By the time we got to Raley's, the Giants had blown that lead, and by the time we checked ( Read more... )

The San Francisco Giants made something of a hash of the second half of the regular season, but managed to squeak into the post-season, barely making it to the one-game wild card playoff with the New York Mets. Both teams trotted out their ace pitchers, and the game was a real pitchers' duel. Then in the top of the ninth inning, Conor Gillaspie ( ( Read more... )

This week has been very hot, with daytime highs up to 40°C in Fernley and no air conditioning except the swamp cooler. It's been livable, but only just. Yesterday, I suggested to Lisa that we go into Reno after work and take in a Reno Aces baseball game, because they were hosting the Sacramento RiverCats, The San Francisco Giants' AAA affiliate. ( Read more... )

It was a nail-biter, right down to the winning run for Kansas City coming to the plate when a misplayed ball with two out in the bottom of the ninth put the tying run on third, but THEY DID IT! The San Francisco Giants won their third World Series in five years. Pitcher Madison Bumgarner came into the game in relief having pitched two days ago and ( Read more... )

It turned out that the BASFA Baseball Outing was called off and I didn't have tickets to the game tonight after all.

( Oh, that's Bad. No, that's Good... )

Lisa informed me this week that she's managed to clear enough wall space to accommodate more shelves, and asked me to buy two more BILLY bookshelves. So after breakfast and checking out of the hotel this morning, I went up to East Palo Alto and did so. This was indeed my second trip there in a week, but that's because we didn't know we'd have room ( Read more... )

The Giants are playing a "traditional doubleheader" (two games, one admission, as opposed to most modern double-headers, where they clear the park and you need another ticket for the second game) on Tuesday in order to make up a rained-out game with the Cincinnati Reds. Because the rained-out game was in Cincinnati, the first game (4:05 PM start) ( Read more... )