Maria Guardado

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'It was huge for us': Hicks battles frustrations, early woes in deep start

6 days ago | mlb.com | Maria Guardado

PHILADELPHIA -- Jordan Hicks didn’t look long for Thursday afternoon’s series finale at Citizens Bank Park after he gave up five runs in a 33-pitch first inning. But the hard-throwing right-hander somehow found a way to deliver the longest outing by a Giants starter on this road trip.
Hicks battles frustrations, early woes in deep start

6 days ago | bvmsports.com | Maria Guardado
Tyler Fitzgerald's strong stretch continues in Giants' win

1 week ago | mlb.com | Maria Guardado

PHILADELPHIA -- Last week, Tyler Fitzgerald got to receive a major perk of playing for the Giants: hitting tips from Barry Bonds. During the club’s most recent homestand, Bonds pulled Fitzgerald aside and asked him to meet him in the batting cage, where the legendary slugger instructed the slumping second baseman to focus on hitting the ball straight down to snap him out of his tendency to drop his barrel.
Hayden Birdsong adjusting to bullpen role with Giants

1 week ago | mlb.com | Maria Guardado

This story was excerpted from Maria Guardado’s Giants Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. PHILADELPHIA -- The end of Spring Training brought some bittersweet news for Hayden Birdsong. The 23-year-old right-hander made his first Opening Day roster after putting together a strong camp, but he ended up being the odd man out in the Giants’ fifth-starter competition, which relegated him to the bullpen to start the year.
Verlander still searching for elusive 1st win as a Giant

1 week ago | bvmsports.com | Maria Guardado
'It's tough': Verlander still searching for elusive 1st win as a Giant

1 week ago | mlb.com | Maria Guardado

PHILADELPHIA -- Justin Verlander took the mound in the sixth inning with a one-run lead and a chance to finally get his first win as a Giant. Instead, he saw both slip away. A defensive miscue by left fielder Heliot Ramos brought home the tying run before Verlander surrendered a go-ahead single to Alec Bohm, saddling the Giants with a 6-4 loss that evened this four-game series against the Phillies on a blustery Tuesday night at Citizens Bank Park.
Willy Adames, Tyler Fitzgerald homer in Giants' win vs. Phillies

1 week ago | mlb.com | Maria Guardado

PHILADELPHIA -- One of the more impressive parts of the Giants’ hot start is that they’ve managed to win games even with an offense that hasn’t been firing on all cylinders. Jung Hoo Lee, Mike Yastrzemski and Wilmer Flores have been carrying the lineup thus far, but the Giants know they’ll need the rest of their bats to get going in order to sustain their success moving forward. Two of those slumping hitters took a step toward breaking out of their early skids on Monday night.
Lee's 2-homer game fuels comeback, series win over Yankees

1 week ago | mlb.com | Maria Guardado

NEW YORK -- Jung Hoo Lee’s first trip to New York was certainly one to remember. Two days after homering in the first at-bat of his Yankee Stadium debut, Lee went deep two more times to power the Giants to a 5-4 comeback win in Sunday’s series finale in the Bronx. Lee put San Francisco on the board with a solo home run off former Giants left-hander Carlos Rodón in the fourth. He then turned a 3-1 deficit into a 4-3 lead with a three-run, go-ahead shot in the sixth.
Flores is there for his friends, but Giants fall to Yanks in rain

1 week ago | mlb.com | Maria Guardado

NEW YORK -- Who will be there when the rain starts to pour? Flores stayed true to his famous walk-up music -- the “Friends” theme song, “I’ll Be There For You” by The Rembrandts -- by crushing his sixth home run of the season on a cold, drizzly Saturday afternoon, but it wasn’t enough as the Giants fell to the Yankees, 8-4, to even this three-game Interleague series in the Bronx. Flores knocked in all four runs for the Giants and accounted for two of their six hits.
Flores is there for his friends, but Giants fall to Yanks in rain

1 week ago | bvmsports.com | Maria Guardado