Giants players who spent time in Sacramento playing for the Triple-A River Cats will have a chance to relive their minor league days next season. The Oakland A's announced yesterday that the team would leave the East Bay for Sacramento after the season, where the team plans to play from 2025-27 while a stadium on the Las Vegas Strip is built. A's team president Dave Kaval said Thursday that the team will pay to upgrade the batting cages, weight rooms and field itself at the stadium, and will also add seating, premium sections and advertising at Sutter Health Park. Tyler Fitzgerald played in Sacramento a year ago and said one of the most important changes for players was installed this offseason.

Giants players who spent time in Sacramento playing for the Triple-A River Cats will have a chance to relive their minor league days next season. The Oakland A's announced yesterday that the team would leave the East Bay for Sacramento after the season, where the team plans to play from 2025-27 while a stadium on the Las Vegas Strip is built. A's team president Dave Kaval said Thursday that the team will pay to upgrade the batting cages, weight rooms and field itself at the stadium, and will also add seating, premium sections and advertising at Sutter Health Park. Tyler Fitzgerald played in Sacramento a year ago and said one of the most important changes for players was installed this offseason.

Alex Cobb may be a medical marvel, but not even he is immune to bumps on his road to recovery. “I could have kept throwing through it, easily, but I wanted to make sure with us being so (advanced) in the rehab, where the team is at with the rotation, this would be a good time to knock out what's going on,” Cobb said Friday before the Giants' home opener. With Blake Snell set to debut Monday, the Giants have five healthy starters for the first time this season. When Cobb returns, he would add a sixth to a group that already counts Friday's home opener starter Jordan Hicks, Logan Webb, Kyle Harrison and Keaton Winn.

Alex Cobb may be a medical marvel, but not even he is immune to bumps on his road to recovery. “I could have kept throwing through it, easily, but I wanted to make sure with us being so (advanced) in the rehab, where the team is at with the rotation, this would be a good time to knock out what's going on,” Cobb said Friday before the Giants' home opener. With Blake Snell set to debut Monday, the Giants have five healthy starters for the first time this season. When Cobb returns, he would add a sixth to a group that already counts Friday's home opener starter Jordan Hicks, Logan Webb, Kyle Harrison and Keaton Winn.

Wilmer Flores and Xander Bogaerts will be among the stars on display when the San Francisco Giants face the San Diego Padres on Friday at 4:35 PM ET, at Oracle Park. Watch MLB, other live sports and more on Fubo! Use our link to sign up for a free trial. Place your bets on any MLB matchup at BetMGM, and sign up with our link for a first-time deposit bonus! Giants vs. Padres Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info Date: Friday, April 5, 2024 Time: 4:35 PM ET TV Channel: NBCS-BA Location: San Francisco, California Venue: Oracle Park Livestream: Fubo Bet on this matchup with BetMGM . Read More About This Game Giants vs Padres Player Props Giants vs Padres Odds Giants vs Padres Pitching Matchup Giants

Baseball fans will be out in force Friday for the San Francisco Giants' home opener, a 1:35 p.m. game at Oracle Park against the San Diego Padres. Fans can expect a special day at the ballpark for Opening Day, complete with an F-15 flyover and the home debuts of six new players. Inside the stadium, the Giants are introducing some new sculptures, including a 7-foot-tall SF Giants logo that will be in the lower center field area outside of the ballpark's garden during the opening homestand for fans to take pictures alongside it.

(BCN) — Baseball fans will be out in force Friday for the San Francisco Giants’ home opener, a 1:35 p.m. game at Oracle Park against the San Diego Padres. Inside the stadium, the Giants are introducing some new sculptures, including a 7-foot-tall SF Giants logo that will be in the lower center field area outside […]

Oracle Park boosts sounds quality at Oracle Park Giants marketing officer Rachel Heit touts Oracle Park's upgraded sound quality. SAN FRANCISCO - When the San Francisco Giants play Friday afternoon at their home opener against the San Diego Padres, they'll be the beneficiaries of a multimillion dollar upgrade. The team spent $15 million to upgrade Oracle Park's lighting and sound systems. The Giants replaced close to 600 speakers and amplifiers, while adding subwoofers. Giants marketing officer Rachel Heit told KTVU that the team has worked on increasing the sound quality for the last two years. The team says fans visiting this year will also notice sharper quality video displays, plus

When the San Francisco Giants play Friday afternoon at their home opener against the San Diego Padres, they'll be the beneficiaries of a multimillion dollar upgrade.

The countdown is on to the first pitch on the San Francisco Giants opening day Friday afternoon, and some of the team's biggest fans are pitcher Logan Webb's grandmothers.

San Diego Padres (4-5) vs. San Francisco Giants (2-5) San Francisco; Friday, 4:35 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Padres: Dylan Cease (0-1, 3.86 ERA, 0.86 WHIP, six strikeouts); Giants: Jordan Hicks (1-0, 0.00 ERA, 0.80 WHIP, six strikeouts) : Giants -118, Padres -101; over/under is 7 1/2 runs BOTTOM LINE: The San Francisco Giants come into a matchup against the San Diego Padres after losing four games in a row. San Francisco had a 79-83 record overall and a 45-36 record in home games last season. The Giants scored 4.2 runs per game while giving up 4.4 last season. San Diego had an 82-80 record overall and a 38-43 record on the road last season. The Padres scored 4.6 runs per game in the 2023 season

Like it or not, facial recognition cameras are coming to gates at Oracle Park, in what Major League Baseball calls “hands-free” ticketing, but others call a “nuclear bomb of privacy.” Friday is your San Francisco Giants' Home Opener, and so for this moment the Chronicle wrote a nice article about the technological upgrades coming to Oracle Park this season. The Chronicle headline describes these upgrades as “Dramatic lights, amplified sound, facial recognition.” The Chronicle calls this a “nifty doodad.”

As the Oakland A’s move to West Sacramento, bar patrons and bartenders celebrate.

At Oracle Park on Friday, the San Francisco Giants (2-5) take on the San Diego Padres (4-5), fellow members of the NL West, at 4:35 PM ET. The Giants are favored (-112) in a projected close game against the Padres (-108). The San Francisco Giants will give the start to Jordan Hicks (1-0, 0.00 ERA), who is looking for win No. 2 on the season, and the Padres will turn to Dylan Cease (0-1, 3.86 ERA). The Giants lost their most recent game against the Dodgers by a 5-4 score Friday.

The Eugene Emeralds, the High-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants, will open the 2024 season at PK Park on Friday. Here are four players to watch.

After their most exciting offseason in recent memory, the San Francisco Giants have been swiftly served a slice of humble pie. The team is 2-5, having just been swept by the archrival Dodgers, who they now trail in the NL West by four games. There's plenty of time to right the ship, and of course, the debut of Blake Snell in Washington on Monday gives the team plenty of reasons to stay optimistic. Fortunately, with six months to go, there's plenty of time for the Giants to make the moves necessary to put their season back on a winning course.

The San Francisco Giants will get the opportunity to introduce Jung Hoo Lee and reintroduce Bob Melvin to their fans when they host their home opener against the San Diego Padres on Friday afternoon. The clubs met to open the Giants' season in San Diego, where Melvin was the manager the past two years. Melvin is quite familiar to San Francisco Bay Area baseball fans, having played at Menlo-Atherton High and Canada Community College on the west side of the bay and the University of California on the east side before playing catcher for the Giants for three seasons from 1986-88. After managerial stints with the Seattle Mariners and Arizona Diamondbacks, he came back to the Bay Area to skipper the Oakland Athletics for 11 seasons before moving on to the Padres in 2022.

Programming Note: Watch Positive Coaching Alliance's Game Changer Awards and Benefit show at 9 p.m. PT on Thursday night on NBC Sports Bay Area after "Dubs Talk Live." Long before Matt Cain became a staple of the golden age of Giants baseball, he was taken under the wing of former Major League pitcher Mauro Gozzo. Gozzo pitched in the MLB for parts of six seasons, making appearances with the Toronto Blue Jays, Cleveland, Minnesota Twins and New York Mets.

Shohei Ohtani provides winning margin in 5-4 win over Giants, strikes surprising deal with fan to get "very special ball" back.

Rain is in the forecast for the Giants' home opener Friday, giving them an appropriately gloomy greeting from a disappointing first week. After splitting the opening series with the Padres, they were swept over the past three games by the vaunted Dodgers and returned home 2-5, riding a four-game losing streak. Set to welcome San Diego for the first games of the season on the shores of McCovey Cove, the wind has already been knocked out of the sails after a late-developing offseason that left the team optimistic internally. Manager Bob Melvin isn't ready to draw any conclusions.