• How to watch San Francisco Giants vs. San Diego Padres

    The San Francisco Giants kick off the 2024 season this afternoon with game one of this four-game opening series against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park. Getting the Opening Day start for the Giants will be right-hander Logan Webb. Webb finished second in the 2023 Cy Young Award voting, ending the season with a 3.25 ERA, 3.16 FIP, with 194 strikeouts to 31 walks in a league-leading 216 innings pitched. He’ll be facing off against Padres right-hander Yu Darvish, who ended his 2023 season for...

  • How to watch Giants vs. A’s

    It’s time for the first gamethread of the year. With the San Francisco Giants set to visit the Oakland A’s for the penultimate preseason game — and things finally televised — it seemed like we should have a place to talk about the action. During the regular season, I usually use this space to talk a tiny bit about the pitching matchup, but today there are two other things to talk about instead. First, it’s of note that Marco Luciano is in the lineup, starting at shortstop. We’re at the point in...