Here is an early link to my Saturday column about Jake Peavy. The full text runs below: SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Very early Friday morning. Jake Peavy enters the clubhouse. He is singing, his voice passionate, his face filled with emotion. Sing, Jake. “But darling, oh darlin’/You’re the best thing I’ve [...]
The Giants workout just ended. Pitchers threw to batters on three different fields. Jake Peavy pitched in Scottsdale Stadium – I watched him. Tim Lincecum pitched in the back field at Scottsdale Stadium and I did not see him. Reporters asked Bruce Bochy about Lincecum. “Looked good,” Bochy said, “threw [...]
Here is a link to my Friday column about the core of the Giants bullpen. The full text runs below: SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The constant in the Giants’ greatness is the bullpen. OK, call it one of the constants. Bruce Bochy is constant and Brian Sabean is constant and Buster [...]
IN TODAY'S column I wrote about the new A's third baseman Brett Lawrie who replaces the old third baseman Josh Donaldson. Here is a comparison of key stats the past two seasons for both of them. Games played: Donaldson in 2014, 158 games; in 2013, 158 games. Lawrie in 2014, [...]
Here is a link to my Wednesday column about Angel Pagan. The full text runs below: SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. Angel Pagan reported to work on Tuesday, but it wasn’t the regular kind of reporting to work. It wasn’t getting up in the morning and drinking a cup of joe and driving [...]
Here is a link to my Saturday column about the lack of power hitters on the SF Giants. The full text runs below: SAN FRANCISCO — I went in search of a power hitter. Giants Media Day. Players in different rooms at AT&T Park, players ready to talk. Was there [...]
Here is a link to my Sunday column about the Pablo Sandoval sweepstakes: The full text runs below: The Bay Area has descended into serious Panda-monium. Or maybe we’re all suffering from Panda-mania and need prescription drugs to calm our frantic mood. It’s all because Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval [...]
Here is a link to my column about Game 7 of the World Series. The full text runs below: KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Madison Bumgarner. That’s all you need to know. It’s rare when a ballplayer transcends a World Series. We’re thinking Willie Mays in 1954 — superstars like him. [...]
Here is a link to my column about the Giants' win in Game 5. The full text runs below: SAN FRANCISCO I could write about Madison Bumgarner and how he outpitched James Shields in Game 5 of the World Series and how he made the Kansas City Royals look ill [...]
Here is a link to my column about Game 4 of this exciting World Series. The full text runs below: SAN FRANCISCO — By the end, the game was a rout or maybe it was an assassination. It was absurd, actually — the Giants getting hit after hit, 16 hits [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.