BASEBALL MULTIMEDIA  SUNDAY OCTOBER 24, 2010 BRIAN “Professor B” Davis Staff Writer-  Well Giants fans from Northern California to all the through the valleys of Carmel & Fresno through the upper northern coast of Sacramento all the way through Chico California the San Francisco Giants are the new champions of the National League by dethroning the two time National League champions Philadelphia Phillies by a score of 3-2 when Giants third baseman Juan Uribe hit an opposite field homer to right field into the seats to give the Giants a 3-2 lead after the Phillies jumped on Giants starter Johnathan Sanchez for an early 2-0 lead he would ‘nt survive the bottom half of the third inning after hitting Phillies second baseman Chase Utley. Utley, threw the ball back at Sanchez then he started to woof back at Utley then both benches emptied but no punches were thrown. In the bottom half of the ninth inning Giants closer Brian Wilson with the tying and winning runs on first & second base flashes of last year’s game 4 classic when Jimmy Rollins hit a game winning two-run walk-off double off Dodgers closer Johnathan Broxton but this time fate would not favor the Phillies as Giants closer  Brian Wilson struck out former National League MVP Ryan Howard looking to give the San Francisco Giants their first pennant and World Series since 2002 their fourth National League Pennant since moving to the west coast since 1958 and are looking for their first ever World Series title on the west coast and the franchise first when they were in New York in 1954. Giants outfielder Cody Ross who was claimed off waviers from the Florida Marlins in August who batted .350  with three  homers and three doubles and five RBI’s was named the NLCS MVP Ross, three homers was the most by a San Francisco Giant since Jeffery Lennard’s four against the St.Louis Cardinals in 1987.

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 20,2010  Brian “Professor B” Davis Staff Writer- In the National League Championship Series at game 3 at AT&T Park in San Francisco the Giants behind the Matt Cain beat the Phillies by a score of 3-0 on Wednesday. Cain went 7.0 innings of giving no runs on a pair of hits with five strikeouts. Phillies losing pitcher Cole Hammels went six innings giving up three runs on five hits with eight strikeouts. Giants outfielder Cody Ross who was claimed by the Florida Marlins back in August got another RBI hit to give the Giants a 2-0 lead then first baseman Aubry Huff added a RBI hit to score Pat Burrell to make the final score 3-0. The Phillies offense wit runners in scoring position were 0-for-5 at the plate. With the win the Giants have a 2-1 series lead and the Giants have won 10-out-of their last 13 games since 1989 and since the NLCS went to the four out of a best-of-seven format in 1985 15-out-of-the last 19 NLCS teams up 2-1 in the Series went on and won the national League Pennant.

BRIAN “Professor B” DAVIS STAFF WRITER- The San Francisco Giants wins the first round of this heavyweight National League Championship Series bout against the two-time National League Champion Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia Saturday night winning by a score of 4-3. The game was scoreless until the top of the third inning when Giants outfielder Cody Ross hit a solo homer off Phillies ace Roy Halladay who just coming off the second no-hitter in postseason to give the Giants a 1-0. Then the Phillies responded in the bottom half of the frame when catcher Carlos Ruiz hit a opposite homer into the rightfield  seats to tie the game at 1-1. Then later the Ross added  a two-run homer to extend the Giants lead to 3-1 Ross would ended going 2-for-3 at the plate with a pair of homers and three RBI’s and Pat Burrell also went 2-for-3 with a pair of RBIs. Giants ace and reining two-time National League Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum went 7.0 innings giving up three runs on six hits with eight strikeouts while his counterpart Roy Halladay went 7.0 innings giving up four runs on eight hits with seven strikeouts suffers his first loss in the postseason also for the Phillies outfielder Jayson Werth added a two-run homer in a losing cause. Giants closer Brian Wilson picks up his third save in four chances in the postseason. 

Friday October 8, 2010 Brian “Professor B” Davis Staff Writer-  At AT&T Park in China Basin on Thursday night Giants ace Tim Lincecum pitched a two hit shutout as a sellout crowd of over 44,000 fans as Lincecum in his first ever post season start went the distance by shutting the Braves 2-0. Lincecum went 9.0 innings giving up no runs on a pair of hits while setting a new Giants post season record with 14 strikeouts while throwing 105 pitches in the contest. Accounting for the Giants lone run the game when Cody Ross’s RBI single scoring Giants catcher rookie Buster Posey scoring the Giants lone run for the contest. Lincecum’s two-hit complete game shutout agianst the Braves come on the same date on Wednesday October 7, 1987 when Dave Dravecky’s two hit complete game shutout against the St. Louis Cardinals in game 2 of the National League Championship Series as the Giants beat the Cardinals 5-0 on the strength of homers by Will Clark & Jeffery Leonard. Dravecky in that game went the distance giving up no runs on a pair of hits with six strikeouts at Busch stadium in St.Louis.

Brian “Professor B” Davis  staff writer- Well Giants fans on Saturday Night against their rivals the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodgers Stadium at Chavez Ravine was another classic.This ranks up there with the Giants trailing 4-2 in the top half of the ninth inning to score four times in the ninth inning to to come from behind to win game three of the best of three playoff game to won the 1962 National League Pennant and to advanced to their first World Series since moving to the coast in 1958. Or  in a game on Memorial Day weekend in May 28,1978 when Mike Ivie hit a pinch-hit grand slam off Dodgers ace and future Hall of Famer Don Sutton in a Giants win 6-5 in front of a sellout crowd of over 56,000 at Candlestick Park or four years later on on Sunday October 3, 1982 with the Giants who were eliminated the day before after the Dodgers stomped the Giants by a score of 15-2 the Dodgers came into the final day of the season needing to win against the Giants to force a one-game playoff with the Atlanta Braves the following day in Los Angeles when future hall of famer and a former two-time National League MVP Joe Morgan hit a three-run homer off of Dodgers reliever Terry Forester in the bottom half of the seventh inning to give the Giants a 5-3 win and sending the Dodgers home on the next train smoking and the Braves won the N.L. West by 1.0 game. 

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Staff Writer- In today’s baseball news & notes- The San Francisco Giants has claimed outfielder Cody Ross from the Florida Marlins on Monday. The 29-year old outfielder who the giants claimed off wavers last Friday so far this season is hitting .265 with 10 home runs with 58 RBIs in 120 games for the Marlins this season will provide the Giants some flexibillity off the bench and could start in various occasionally. Ross has a career .264 with 83 homers and 312 RBIs in his seven big league seasons. Ross best season was last years when he put up a career high with a .270 average, 24 homers & 90 RBIs in 151 games but ther Marlins want to have an spot for outfielder Cameron Maybin who came to the Marlins along with pitcher Andrew Miller in return in the Dontrelle Willis & Miguel Caberra trade during the 2007 winter meetings trade.

To make room for Ross the Giants has designated infielder Matt Downs for assignment according to San Jose Mercury News Andy Baggarly reports the Giants have at least 10 days to either trade or release him outright or and or when he clear wavers he can accept a minor league assignment or elect to be a free agent. Downs 26, last year on Baseball America’s top 25 prospects at number 24 on the Giants list.

In baseball’s news according to a report from SI’s Jon Heyman  the Boston Red Sox has put a waver clam on Detroit Tigers outfielder Johnny Damon. If the Red Sox gets him they would be getting a diminishing Damon who at 36 saw his number slipped down this year. He’s only hitting only .270  and played only 286 innings. He’s also a type B free agent at the end of the season and it’s highly unlikely he would get arbitration.

And finally the San Francisco Giants will take on the N.L Central leading Cincinnati Reds at AT&T Park for the first of a three-game series. For the Giants it will be Matt Cain with a 9-10 record  with a 3.11 ERA against the Reds Edision Vaolquez  3-1 record with a 4.98 ERA.

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San Francisco Giants on Monday night in front over 40,000 fans for to Salute Grateful Dead legend Jerry Garcia also in attendence NBA legend and basketball hall of famer Bill Walton who helped the Portland Trail Blazers to their only NBA championship back in 1977 see the Giants eked a 4-3 win over the Chicago Cubs in 11 innings on a Pat Burrell bases loaded sacrafice fly with no out in the bottom half of the 11th inning scoring Edgar Renteria from third base. It’s the second time ibn the last three days that the Giants won a game with a sacrafice fly which produced a game-winning RBI. Giants reliever Chris Ray picks up the win iin relief to improves his record to (5-0) while M. Mateo takes the loss his record his (0-1).  The Giants will be back in action for the second game of the four game series where Giants ace Tim Lincecum will be on the mound while the Cubs will send Ryan Dempster on the mound first pitch will be at 7:15 pm pst. The Giants with the win the Giants are a 1.5 game behind the idle San Diedgo Padres in the National League West and 1.0 game ahead of the Philadelphia Phillies & St.Louis Cardinals in 5.0 games ahead of the Colorado Rockies and 5.5 games in front of the Los Angeles Dodgers the National League Wild Card race.

And at The Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati the St.Louis Cardinals beat the Reds by a score of 7-3 led by Skip Schumaker homer and a RBI single by Albert Pujols Reds catcher and former Oakland A’s Ramon Hernandez in a losing cause the Cardinals trails the front-running Reds in the big showdown in the National League Central to just 0.5 game.  

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BASEBALL MULTIMEDIA INQUIER UPDATE IN REVEIW FOR TUESDAY JUNE 1, 2010

BRIAN “PROFESSER B” DAVIS STAFF WRITER- On Monday AT&T Park Colorado Rockies ace Ubaldo Jimenez pitched his second complete game of the season as the Rockies ace outduled his counterpart two-time National League Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum as the Rockies down the San Francisco Giants by a score of 4-0 as Jimenez improves his record to (10-1) while Lincecum drops his record to (5-2). Jimenmez piched his second complete game of the season the first was back in April when he threw his no-hitter against the Atlanta Braves. On Monday Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval manage to get three hits off of the ace of Rockies while Giants ace Tim Lincecum is now a personal (0-2) in his last three starts while he’s also dealing with a nasty blister on on his  throwing (finger) hand. The Rockies got the first two runs with two outs with a two run single by Rockies infielder Clint Barmes while first baseman Todd Helton added a RBI.

Meanwhile on Monaday the NCAA announced the 64-team baseball team brackett as the first round baseball regionals will start on Friday the format is as it follows. This is a 64-team 12-city schools are the hosted sites. The first round of the College Baseball Regonals is set of four teams seeded 1-through-4  with a double elimination format which the teams who losses twice is eliminated from the tournament. Then the second round of the College Baseball playoffs is the Super Reginals College Baseball’s version of the League Championship Series which will be a 2-out-of-a- best-of-3 format the team wins two games of the Super Regionals Championship Series will adavnced to the College World Series at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha Kansas. 

                                 The National Top Seeds

                                 1. Arizona State

                                 2. Texas

                                 3.Florida

                                 4.Costal Carolina

                                 5.Virgina

                                 6.UCLA

                                 7.Louisville

                                 8.Georgia Tech

Note:The top Nationally 8-seeded teams will also be eligible to host the Super Regionals if the nationally seeded club wins their respective regional series in the first round of the baseball tournament.

REGIONALS

(DOUBLE ELIMINATION)

TEMPE REGIONAL

1.Arizona State

2.San Diego

3.Hawaii

4.Milwaukee

FAYEHVILLE REGIONAL

1.Arkansas

2.Washington State

3.Kansas State

4.Grambling State

AUBURN REGIONAL

1.Auburn

2.Clemson

3.Sotheren Miss.

4.Jacksonville  State

ATLANTA REGIONAL

1.Georgia Tech

 2.Alabama

3.Elon

4.Mercer

AUSTIN REGIONAL

1.Texas

2.Rice

3.Louisiana-Lafayette

4.Rider

FORT WORTH REGIONAL

1.TCU

2.Baylor

3.Arizona

4.Lamar

NORWICH REGIONAL

1.Florida State

2.UCONN

3.Oregon

4.Central Conn.St.

LOUISVILLE REGIONAL

1.Louisville

2.Vanderbilt

3.Illionois State

4.St.Louis

LOS ANGELES REGIONAL

1.UCLA

2.LSU

3.UC Irvine

4.Kent State.

FULLERTON REGION

1.Cal State Fuellerton

2.Stanford

3,New Mexico

4.Minnesota

CORAL GABLES REGIONAL

1.Miami (Fla.)

2.Texas A&M

3.FIU

4.Darthmonth

GAINSVILLE REGIONAL

1.Florida

2.Florida Atlantic

3.Oregon State.

4. Bethume-Cookman

NORMAN REGIONAL

1.Oklahoma

2.Califorina

3.North Carloina

4.Oral Roberts

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BASEBALL INQUIER MULTIMEDIA REPORT THURSDAY APRIL 28, 2010

Brian “ProfesserB” Davis Staff Writer- The Philadelphia Phillies beat the San Francisco Giants in a classic by a score of 7-6 in 11 innings. The Giants a comanding 4-1 lead heading into the top of the ninth inning when with one out in the top half of the ninth inning when Giants manager Bruce Bochy pulled his ace Tim Lincecum in what would be a total managerial second guessing/questionable decision to bring in Giants closer Brian Wilson  in to finish the game but after the Phillies loaded the bases Phillies outfielder Jayson Werth hits a bases loaded three run double down the right field line clearing the bases to tie the game at 4-4. The Phillies took the lead in the top half of the 10th inning the Phillies took a 5-4 lead when Phillies catcher Brian Schnider scored on a wild pitch then in the bottom half of the frame the Giants tied the game on a RBI hit by Andres Torres. Then in the top half of the 11th inning the Phillies took a 6-5 lead on a RBI double by shortstop Wilson Valdez scoring Raul Ibanez and added the important insurance run when Giants outfielder Eugino Velez’s error scoring Valdez to make it 7-5 Phillies. The Giants made the game 7-6 but Phillies reliever Nelson Figerueroa pitched out of a Giants rally to pick up his first win of the season (1-0) while Sergio Romo is the loser his record now drops to (0-2). Also Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard hits his first homer in 66 @ bats for baseball’s new $125 million man.

The final thoughts from yesterday’s game like the great line from the late Jim McKay from ABC’s Wide World Of Sports TV Series for the Phillies the thrill of victory and for the Giants and the agony of defeat I was listening to both radio talk show today to the Murph & Mac show on KNBR 680 in San Francisco hosted by Brian Murphy & Paul McCaffery and a lot of callers who ripped Giants manager Bruce Bochy for not letting Lincecum finsih the game. The Giants who already took two out of three from the Cardinals last weekend and was only a strike away from sweeping the two-time defending National League Champion Phillies and that all changed when Jayson Werth’s three-run double changed the game around. This loss is totally on Giants manager Bruce Bochy who should have kept his ace Lincecum in the game his final numbers he went 8.1/3 innings giving up three hits, two earned runs with 11 strikeouts and his ERA is a 1.27 ERA. And brining Eugenio Velez who dropped a routine fly ball to score another run for the Phillies and also listening to Sportsradio 610 WIP Radio based in Philadelphia Midday Show with Glen Macnow & Anthony Gargano on line ihad Phillies play-by-play man Tom McCarthy and they could not believe that Giants manager Bochy took the two-time National League Cy Young Award winner keep him the game but if you are a Phillies fan hey it was not pretty but we’ll take the win but for Giants fans you have to be totally be ********** on Bochy’s decision to bring in closer Brian Wilson and ripping Bochy for his decision but Giants fans it’s late April and Pennants are won in September & October not in April so don’t fret it’s not the end of the world like the classic track by Bobby McFerrin’s 1988 Grammy Award Winner Record Of the Year  classic Don’t Worry Be Happy.

In NCAA baseball action on Wednesday the Arizona State Sun Devils laid the woodshead spanking to the USF Dons at Winkels/Packard Stadium at Jim Brock Field by a score of 21-3. The Dons took an early 3-0 lead in the top of the second inning before the Sun Devils scored 21 unawnsed runs in four out of the next five innings. Sun Devils Riccio Torrez had another four-hit game perfomance while Deven Morrero and Zach Wilson had four RBI’s apeice and for the Dons senior catcher Ryan Lipkin  smashed his 15th double of the season while also juniors Stephen Yarrow & Pete Lavin each had a double apiece the Dons as a team extends their West Coast Conference team leading 114 leading doubles for the season. With the loss the Dons drops their record to (22-20) while the 2nd ranked Sun Devils improves thier record to (35-5). The Dons will be back on the hilltop on Friday for the first od the three-game weekend series against the San Diego Torreros in West Coast Conference Friday’s game will be at 3:00pm pst and Saturday & Sunday @ 1:00pm pst.

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WEDNESDAY APRIL 28, 2010 Brian” Professer B ” Davis Staff Writer- The USF Dons fell to the top ranked Arizona State at Packard Stadium/Jim Brock Field in Tempe Arizona by a score of 11-5. The Dons had an early 3-1 lead against the second ranked Sun Devils from the Pac-10 when the Sun Devils scored 10 times over the next five innings to the final score 11-5 ASU. Despite the loss the Dons collected 10 hits or more for the 10th time in 20 games and the Dons adds to their West Coast Conference leading 110 doubles. Leading the way the Dons was senior shortstop Derek Poppert who went 4-for-5 at the plate with a RBI and a stolen base while Dons second baseman Robert Abel went 1-for-4 at the plate with a pair of RBI’s while for ASU’s first baseman Riccio Torrez went for 4-for-5 at the plate with a RBI and both Zach Macphee and Kole Calhoun both hit their sevethn homers for Sun Devils while catcher Austin Barnes bases loaded three-run double made the score 11-3 before the Dons scored twice in the eighth inning to make the final score 11-5 ASU. With the win the 2nd ranked Sun Devils improves their record to (34-5) while the Dons drops their record to (22-19). The Dons and Sun Devils will be back in action for the final game of the two game mid-week series at Packard Stadium at Jim Brock/Bobby Winkles Field in Tempe Arizona first pitch will pitch will be at 6:30 pm pst.

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