Texas Rangers (15-11, first in the AL West) vs. San Francisco Giants (17-10, second in the NL West) San Francisco; Saturday, 4:05 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Rangers: Tyler Mahle (3-0, 0.67 ERA, 0.82 WHIP, 25 strikeouts); Giants: Robbie Ray (3-0, 4.07 ERA, 1.56 WHIP, 25 strikeouts) BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Giants -129, Rangers +109; over/under is 7 1/2 runs BOTTOM LINE: The Texas Rangers meet the San Francisco Giants with a 1-0 series lead. San Francisco has gone 7-4 at home and 17-10 overall. The Giants are 7-1 in games when they hit at least two home runs. Texas has a 5-8 record in road games and a 15-11 record overall. The Rangers have gone 11-3 in games when they did not give up a home run.

Justin Verlander pitched well enough to earn his first win in a San Francisco Giants uniform, but once again, the offense couldn't back him up. Despite another quality start from the veteran ace, the Giants fell 2-0 to the Texas Rangers on Friday night at Oracle Park. Verlander went six innings, allowing two runs on five hits while striking out six. “We got out-pitched tonight,” Verlander said after the game, summing up the night simply.

Wyatt Langford had three hits and an RBI to help the Rangers win in manager Bruce Bochy's return to Oracle Park. Eovaldi (2-2) allowed three hits and had seven strikeouts with one walk in his 300th career game in the majors while outdueling three-time Cy Young Award winner Justin Verlander.

Wyatt Langford had three hits and an RBI to help the Rangers win in manager Bruce Bochy’s return to Oracle Park. Eovaldi (2-2) allowed three hits and had seven strikeouts with one walk in his 300th career game in the majors while outdueling three-time Cy Young Award winner Justin Verlander.

The San Francisco Giants are on an absolute heater to open the 2025 season, putting together a 17-9 record through the first few series, and proving they have what it takes to compete in an extremely strong National League West. With three teams having 16 or more wins in the division, things are going to get extremely intriguing over the summer stretch of the season, and when the postseason rolls around, there may be multiple teams making it from there. The Giants have been led by impressive performances from Jung Hoo Lee, Tyler Fitzgerald, Mike Yastrzemski, Logan Webb, and others.

The Giants held back on the pomp and circumstance when Brandon Crawford played his final game with the orange and black on Oct. 1, 2023. Crawford, at the time, hadn't announced his retirement, leaving a cloud of uncertainty hanging over that afternoon. On Saturday, Crawford will receive a proper celebration as the Giants will host “Brandon Crawford Celebration Day” in honor of one of the greatest shortstops in franchise history following his retirement this past offseason. This weekend, the Giants will host the Bruce Bochy-led Texas Rangers, allowing Crawford's manager from 2011-19 to be in attendance for the festivities.

The San Francisco Giants are off to one of the most surprising starts in baseball, and the team is hoping to sustain it throughout the long season. It has been a great start for the Giants, but since expectations were somewhat low coming into the year, there is concern that the hot start could cool off. This winter, one of the main focuses of the Giants was to improve their offense. The emergence of Jung Hoo Lee has been a major reason why, but this was a team that was built on having a strong pitching staff to carry them.

The Texas Rangers are sticking around out west this weekend, now heading to the Bay. No, they're not playing the Athletics again, but they are taking on the team that actually remains in the Bay Area. The San Francisco Giants, getting to stay home after taking three of four to claim a series against the Milwaukee Brewers, are playing Texas in the last series of a grueling 17 games in 17 days early-season stretch. Texas, meanwhile, is wrapping up another short road trip before heading back home.

The Giants still have faith in right-handed closer Ryan Walker despite his recent struggles. San Francisco president of baseball operations Buster Posey told KNBR's Brian Murphy and Markus Boucher on Thursday morning why Walker's latest two-game stretch, in which he allowed six hits and six runs in 1/3 innings, doesn't define the 29-year-old, nor earn him a demotion behind fellow right-handed back-end reliever Camilo Doval.

The Giants still have faith in right-handed closer Ryan Walker despite his recent struggles. San Francisco president of baseball operations Buster Posey told KNBR's Brian Murphy and Markus Boucher on Thursday morning why Walker's latest two-game stretch, in which he allowed six hits and six runs in 1/3 innings, doesn't define the 29-year-old, nor earn him a demotion behind fellow right-handed back-end reliever Camilo Doval.

Giants outfielder Jung Hoo Lee is turning heads out in San Francisco.

It’s always nice to see Bruce Bochy.

Yesterday’s action on the farm.

The Los Angeles Dodgers seem like they have nearly unlimited amounts of money, three former MVPs in their starting lineup with Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman, and a pitching staff that never runs out of overpowering arms. Welcome to the National League West, which is far from a one-team show four weeks into the season. Going into Friday night's games, the San Diego Padres (17-8), San Francisco Giants (17-9), Dodgers (16-9) and Arizona Diamondbacks (14-11) are all off to a good start, foreshadowing a potentially fascinating summer race.

As he settled into San Francisco for the second time as Texas Rangers manager, Giants legend Bruce Bochy discussed Brandon Crawford, Buster Posey and more.

The San Francisco Giants are off to a much better start to the 2025 MLB season than pretty much anyone expected, which now means they are more in play for ever for an in-season trade. ESPN's David Schoenfield (subscription required) recently made a trade deadline preview for the Giants, which included prospects James Tibbs III and Dakota Jordan as their top trade candidates.

Texas Rangers (14-11, second in the AL West) vs. San Francisco Giants (17-9, second in the NL West) San Francisco; Friday, 10:15 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Rangers: Nathan Eovaldi (1-2, 2.64 ERA, 0.75 WHIP, 31 strikeouts); Giants: Justin Verlander (0-1, 5.47 ERA, 1.50 WHIP, 23 strikeouts) BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Giants -111, Rangers -108; over/under is 7 1/2 runs BOTTOM LINE: The San Francisco Giants start a three-game series at home against the Texas Rangers on Friday. San Francisco has a 7-3 record at home and a 17-9 record overall. Giants hitters have a collective .393 slugging percentage to rank eighth in the NL. Texas is 4-8 in road games and 14-11 overall. The Rangers have a 4-8 record

Two of Major League Baseball's active legends will occupy opposing dugouts Friday night when Bruce Bochy and the Texas Rangers visit Justin Verlander and the San Francisco Giants in the opener of a three-game interleague series. Bochy, who led the Giants to World Series championships in 2010, 2012 and 2014, will be making his second return to San Francisco since winning 1,052 regular-season games as their manager for 13 seasons.

(247NEWSSOURCE) – The San Francisco Giants took care of business with a 6-5 win over the Milwaukee Brewers in the series finale in San Francisco. Matt Chapman and Mike Yastrzemski both homered and had two RBI to lead the team at the plate. Tyler Rogers earned his second win in relief while Camilo Doval recorded his fifth save. The Giants won three of four over the Brewers to sit at 17-and-9. Three different Milwaukee batters finished with an RBI. Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich said that the team played poorly during the series. https://media-cdn.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/2499/files/2025/04/milyelich0424a-1.mp3 He said they also played poorly on defense. https://media-cdn.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/2499/files/2025/04/milyelich0424b-1.mp3

With the Giants seeking a comeback win for a series victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Thursday, Camilo Doval had thrown five consecutive balls in the top of the ninth inning. Doval, whose struggles last season were well-documented, was attempting to secure his third save in as many appearances. With a potential setback looming, shortstop Willy Adames jogged to the mound, joined by third baseman Matt Chapman and catcher Patrick Bailey, to offer Doval some words of encouragement. The result was a 6-5 win, bumping San Francisco to a 17-9 record and series win over Adames' former team.