American Dash

If the San Francisco Giants publicity department had been empowered to script Sunday's game at the home field, they couldn't have ...

It's that time of the season, when character counts.  The Pirates are showing it, battling and defeating the previously very hot Mets ...

Before Thursday night's game, the San Francisco Giants were shut out twice in three games.  In the game they won between, they scored on...

Everybody is heading for the hills, but the stern tall marshal is going to defend the town.  The Madison Bumgarner of last autumn came ful...

On the big stage of ESPN Sunday Night Baseball, in a sold-out PNC Park, the Pittsburgh Pirates completed a sweep of the Los Angeles Dodger...

Not following the Chicago Cubs every day, I find it difficult to pin down why they are so hot right now.  They are a very young team and tho...

For the second straight night in Atlanta, the San Francisco Giants scored 8 runs, but this time they won 8-3, with an 8th inning rally of fo...

In some ways, it is unfortunate that the Pirates are in the same division as the St. Louis Cardinals.  The Cards have the best record, the m...

The weekend ended with the Giants sweeping their 3 game series with Oakland and the Pirates winning 3 of 4 from the powerhouse Washington Na...

They seem to save it for the best teams.  The Pirates, comfortably back home, beat the Washington Nationals twice, with more power than pitc...

The Pirates haven't righted the ship yet after the All-Star break, but the SF Giants are clipping along.  They've finished a 5-1 r...

Coming out of the gate after the All-Star game break, the San Francisco Giants swept their three game series at Arizona, including a 5 hour ...

As both of my teams are in the NL, not good news that the AL won the All-Star game to secure home field advantage in the World Series. A...

Both my teams are surging into the All-Star break,  but you can't beat the Pittsburgh Pirates for a dramatic and ecstatic weekend.  On S...

Barry Bonds was hanging around the batting cage before the game, talking to players about hitting, and talking about players to coaches.  ...

Imagine you are a SF Giants fan who lives within an hour or two of the city, and you don't have a lot of money.  There probably still ar...

That the SF Giants lost their three game series at Washington was less of a shock than their 3 duds in Miami, but it still had to be discour...

This week's NBA news has all the major free agents wooed by the Los Angeles Lakers going to other teams.  The best the Lakers can do is ...

The Giants wasted a very impressive return performance by Jake Peavy to lose 2-1 to the Washington Nationals.  Things only get harder in Was...

The Marlins swept their three game series with the visiting Giants, and the only team more surprised at that than the Giants would be the Ma...