Brian Wilson blew the save in the bottom of the 9th vs. the Cubbies. He gave up a game-tying home run. No criticism of Wilson here. He's one of the best closers in the business. It's just that the guy lives with danger -- seems to love it. He often [...]
I'm writing this just after Madison Bumgarner's totally inept outing in the top of the first vs. the Twins, 8 runs, 8 hits in a row, good grief. So, I have a question. How do you rank Giants' starting pitchers as they are currently performing? Here's my ranking. Cain Vogelsong [...]
The Giants got swept by the A's -- pretty amazing and frankly pretty bad. Well, it was good for the semi-resurgent A's. So the main topic of conversation with Bruce Bochy after the Giants lost 2-1 on Sunday was whether the Giants should trade a pitcher (Jonathan Sanchez anyone?) for [...]
I bumped into Duane Kuiper before today’s A’s-Giants game. We talked about new A’s manager Bob Melvin, a former Giant. Kuiper said Mike Krukow preferred to pitch to Bob Brenly instead of Melvin. “Brenly was Krukow’s personal catcher,” is how Kuiper put it. “Ask Bobby about that?” Kuiper said. “It [...]
I doubted Tim Lincecum last August and I was wrong. At the start of this season I said he was the best pitcher in baseball and I was wrong. I'm still puzzled by the guy. He has everything. He should be the best but he goes through stretches in which [...]
This is about Dusty Baker vs. Bruce Bochy, but it's really about old-style baseball managers vs. new-style. I prefer old style -- Baker, etc. -- in a specific way, but I am not criticizing Bochy --a new style guy. Got that? The Reds were in SF over the weekend and [...]
The Press Democrat just posted my Monday column about the Giants beating the Reds on Sunday. We are experiencing a glitch in posting and my column posting is about 12 hours late. We are working on it. I used the game as an example of the Giants' pattern -- how [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.