Wow, what a great and super fun baseball feature story from Susan Slusser. I might have been 9 or 10 years old when the Iron Mike at the local Bullwinkles weeded me out as a future pro baseball player.

The weird part is Soler has a 1.033 OPS with the bases empty. Mike Trout is going through the same thing: 1.123 OPS with nobody on, yet he's failed to knock in 67 of his 70 baserunners.

The strange, strange Jorge Soler RBI stat: He's come to bat with 87 runners on and driven in just 3 of them, including the automatic runner in the 10th tonight (on a 433-foot homer). It wasn't enough in the Giants' 4-3 loss. 'I don't know how to explain it,' Soler said in Spanish

It’s the Camilo Show and this time the Giants game operations team waited till he was at the bullpen gate to cut the lights. 👍

Logan Webb got 15 ground balls that were converted into outs tonight (including one GIDP), which matches his career high. He good.

Attention friends of Giants catching coach Alex Burg: You can stop texting him. He's OK. He lived to tell the tale of catching Camilo Doval's 100 mph fastball in the (literal) pitch dark. theathletic.com/5440451/2024/0…

Uhh, the bullpen catcher is in some danger here. Lights out in the middle of a 95 mph fastball?

The Giants were finally able to open Club Camilo at home.

Thanks to Andrew Baggarly for insight on the Giants within here.

Merrill Kelly has been scratched from his start today. Not sure on specifics, but it’s an injury of some kind. Sounds like team is still sorting through who will go in his place.

Love you, SF. ❤️

Patrick Bailey's first career splash homer is also the first by a Giant since Mike Yastrzemski on June 19 of last season. ⚾️💦

Let’s talk about Logan Webb’s fourth best (nice way of saying worst) pitch, which was his most frequently thrown pitch when he first arrived in the big leagues. Good reminder: development happens at the major league level and sometimes it’s dramatic. theathletic.com/5428695/2024/0…

Oakland A's closer Mason Miller went from a D3 pitcher with a 7 ERA to the hardest-throwing pitcher in the majors.

That transformation started with a failed drug screen and a diabetes diagnosis. theathletic.com/5410939/2024/0…

Bad umpiring performances will always draw more attention than the excellent ones. So let’s tip the scales a bit (and a hat) to Mark Carlson’s very good night behind the plate.

SJR14, the Calif. resolution that seeks to close the Shohei Ohtani tax loophole, passed in the state Senate 32-6. Next it must be approved by the assembly before it would go to the governor. Here’s a rundown on the legislation & what it hope to achieve:
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