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SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 2014 SPRING TRAINING NOTES 24 Willie Mays Plaza •San Francisco, CA 94107 •Phone: 415-972-2000 sfgiants.com •sfgigantes.com •sfgiantspressbox.com •@SFGiants •@los_gigantes• @SFG_Stats CHICAGO CUBS (5-6) at SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS (7-4) RHP Jeff Samardzija (0-0, 5.40) vs. RHP Matt Cain (1-0, 0.00) Game #12/Home Game #8 • Monday, March 10, 2014 • Scottsdale Stadium • 1:05 p.m. (PT) • sfgiants.com UPCOMING PROBABLE STARTING PITCHERS & BROADCAST SCHEDULE: Tuesday, March 11 at Cincinnati (1:05): LHP Tony Cingrani (1-0, 0.00) vs. RHP Tim Hudson (0-0, 0.00) -- sfgiants.com Wednesday, March 12 vs. Chicago-AL (1:05): RHP Felipe Paulino (0-0, 13.50) vs. RHP Tim Lincecum (1-0, 0.00) -- sfgiants.com • • 2014 SPRING TRAINING SPRING RECORD • The San Francisco Giants open their 68th Spring Training in Arizona in 2014...it marks the Club's 33rd-consecutive spring here in Scottsdale, Arizona and the 64th-consecutive Overall Record �����������������������������������������������������������7-4 SPRINGspring OVERVIEW camp in the desert. Scottsdale Stadium ������������������������������������������������4-3 Home Record ��������������������������������������������������������������4-3 Road Record ����������������������������������������������������������������3-1 Day Record �������������������������������������������������������������������7-4 • The Giants have won six of their last eight games and are 7-4 overall this spring, going Night Record �������������������������������������������������������������� 0-0 YESTERDAY'S4-3 here at homeRECAP and 3-1 on the road. Vs. NL Record ��������������������������������������������������������������5-1 Vs. AL Record ��������������������������������������������������������������2-3 LHP Edwin Escobar Current Streak ����������������������������������������������������������W1 • The Giants defeated theRHP Dodgers Jean by Machi a score of 3-2 in a split-squad game at Camelback COUNTING DOWN Ranch... started for SF and hurled 3.0 innings, allowing one run on IF Brandon Hicks 21 days one hit and four walks... earned the save, tossing 1.1-scoreless innings 29 days with two strikeouts...Machi entered the game with the bases loaded in the 8th inning to Opening Day, 3/31 at Arizona and struck out Drew Butera to get out of the jam... drove in all three to Home Opener, 4/8 vs. Arizona of the Giants' runs, which included a two-run blast off Dodgers' ace Clayton Kershaw THE ROSTER SF FUTUREin the 2nd TEAM inning. LHP Madison Bumgarner • Yesterday, the Giants played an exhibition game vs. the SF Future Team... IF Angel The Giants spring roster is currently at Villalona started for the Giants and tossed 4.0 innings, IFallowing Christian one Arroyo hit and two 54 players, which includes 30 pitchers (nine non-roster), four catchers (two non- walks with five strikeouts...at the plate, Bumgarner went 1-for-2 with an RBI... roster), 12 infielders (three non-roster), went 2-for-4 and the Giants’ 2013 first round pick, , went eight outfielders (one non-roster)...of the IN THE1-for-2 TRAINERS for the Future ROOM Team. 30 pitchers in camp, 22 are right-handed OF Michael Morse OF Hunter Pence and eight are left-handed. IF Marco Scutaro GIANTS TV HIGHLIGHTS & • has a tight calf and has a sore left elbow, as both INTERVIEWS players are day-to-day... has yet to appear in a Spring game because BIGof OFFSEASON a sore back. MOVES RHP Tim Lincecum LHP Javier • SFG Productions, the in-house pro- Lopez OF Hunter Pence duction team of the San Francisco • The Giants re-signedRHP Tim Hudson (two-year contractOF extension), Mike Morse Giants, will provide Spring Training (three-year contract extension), and (five-year contract exten- highlight packages this year for every sion), then signed (two-year contract) and (one-year Cactus League game within two hours LOOKINGcontract). BACK AT THE 2013 SEASON of theTech final Specs: out for download. • The videos will be en- Online Media: • The Giants finished the 2013 campaign (56th in San Francisco and 131st overall) with coded with a high-quality H.264 codec. a 76-86 (.469) record, tied with the Padres for third place in the National League West • If you would like to and 16.0 games behind the first-place Dodgers. add select highlights from every game, • San Francisco was in first place for 30 days, but last held first on May 26...they were they will be available for embedding by a season-high eight games over .500 through May 12 (23-15) and a season-worst 16 going to http://m.mlb.com/sf/video STRONGgames FINISH under .500 TO 2013 through Sept. 7 (63-79). • To view or receive footage, go to the Giants media information website at • Beginning Aug. 24, the Giants went 20-14 (.588), for the third-best winning pct. among sfgiantspressbox.com (username: me- NL teams since that date, behind St. Louis (22-12, .647) and Washington (22-12, .647)... dia; password: giants2014). CANSF’s HE best PLAY month ALL 162came AGAIN? in September, where they went 16-11 (.593). OF Hunter Pence • If you have any questions please con- tact Liam Connolly at • started every one of the Giants’ 162 games in 2013, becoming the [email protected] first Giants player in the SF-era (since 1958) to start every regular season game in a GIANTS INFORMATION SITE season, and the first since Alvin Dark started all 154 games for the New York Giants in 1954...Pence became the first Giants player since Bobby Thomson to start every game of a season in the outfield...Thomson started all 156 games in center field during the • sfgiantspressbox.com, a private, me- KEEP1949 THE season STREAK for the GOING New York Giants. dia-only website that helps streamline and expedite distribution of informa- tion to outlets covering the team in a • Pence will enter the 2014 season with a 171-consecutive games started streak, which is more environmentally friendly manner the longest in the National League and the second-longest in the Majors behind DET’s by reducing the use of paper. BASEBALLPrince Fielder AMERICA'S (505 TOP consecutive 10 SF PROSPECTS starts). • Content including game notes, stat #1 RHP Kyle Crick #2 LHP Edwin Escobar packs, media clips, lineups, rosters and audio is updated prior to every Giants • The following is a list of the Giants'#3 RHPtop 10 Chris prospects Stratton heading into the 2014#4 season: - LHP spring/regular season game and will Adalberto - Mejia (2011 1st round supplemental#5 - pick),OF Mac Williamson - remain archived for the remainder of (2008 non-drafted#6 - IF Christian free agent), Arroyo - #7 - RHP (2012 Heath 1st round), Hembree the season. The 2013 Giants media #8 - LHP(2011 Ty non-draftedBlach free agent), #9 - IF Joe Panik (2012 3rd guide can also be found on the site. round),#10 - RHP Clayton Blackburn (2013 1st round), (2010 5th round), (2012 5th round), (2011 1st round), • To access the site (username: media; World Champions (7): 1905, 1921, 1922, 1933, 1954, 2010, 2012 password: giants2014) NL Pennants (20): 1904, 1905, 1911,(2011 1912, 16th 1913, round). 1917, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1933, 1936, 1937, 1951, 1954, 1962, 1989, 2002, 2010, 2012 NL West Titles (8): 1971, 1987, 1989, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2010, 2012 GIANTS MEDIA NOTES -- PAGE 2 -- 2014 SPRING TRAINING SCHEDULE/RESULTS Date Opponent Site Time Result Record Winner Loser Att Wed., Feb. 26 Oakland Scottsdale 1:05 L, 5-10 0-1 Chavez Petit 6,498 Thurs., Feb. 27 OFFMilwaukee DAY Scottsdale 1:05 W, 4-3 1-2 Vogelsong Thornburg 7,093 Fri., Feb. 28 Oakland Phoenix 1:05 L, 6-7 0-2 Neal Hembree 4,285 Sun., March 2 Arizona Scottsdale 1:05 W, 5-3 2-2 Loe Ziegler 10,830* Sat.,Mon., March March 1 3 Chicago-NL San Diego Mesa Scottsdale 1:051:05 L, 2-7 Cancelled 2-3 Due to Rain Benoit Petit 6,905 Wed., March 5 Los Angeles-AL Scottsdale 1:05 W, 3-2 4-3 Cain Weaver 8,275 Tues.,Thurs., March March 4 6 Colorado Cincinnati N.Scottsdale Scottsdale 1:05 1:05 W, 3-23-2 5-3 3-3 Bumgarner Casilla Hawkins Wang 6,0627,893 Sat., March 8 Seattle Scottsdale 1:05 L, 3-18 6-4 Ramirez Vogelsong 12,123* Fri., March 7 Kansas City Surprise 1:05 W, 5-0 6-3 Lincecum Ventura 6,734 SF Future Stars Scottsdale 1:05 W, 8-0 Bumgarner Crick 6,098 Sun.,Mon., March March 9 10 LosChicago-NL Angeles-NL Glendale Scottsdale 1:05 1:05 W, 3-2 7-4 Gutierrez sfgiants.com Patterson 13,252* sfgiants.com Wed., March 12 Chicago-AL Scottsdale 1:05 sfgiants.com Tues., March 11 Cincinnati Goodyear 1:05 KNBR 680 Fri., March 14 Colorado Scottsdale 1:05 sfgiants.com Thurs., March 13 Texas Surprise 6:05 Oakland Scottsdale 3:05 KNBR 680/NBC Bay Area Sat.,Sun., March March 15 16 Seattle Cleveland Peoria Scottsdale 1:05 KNBR 680 sfgiants.com sfgiants.com Mon., March 17 Los Angeles-AL Tempe 1:05 Tues., March 18 Cleveland Goodyear 7:05 sfgiants.com Wed.,Fri., March March 21 19 OFFOakland DAY Scottsdale 6:35 KNBR 680/CSN Bay Area Thurs., March 20 San Diego Peoria 7:05 KNBR 680 Sun., March 23 Kansas City Scottsdale 1:05 KNBR 680 Sat., March 22 Chicago-AL Glendale 1:05 sfgiants.com sfgiants.com Mon.,Wed., MarchMarch 24 26 LosColorado Angeles-AL Tempe Scottsdale 1:051:05 sfgiants.com Tues.,Thurs., March March 25 27 Milwaukee Oakland Maryvale AT&T Park 7:15 1:05 KNBR 680/CSN Bay Area Fri., March 28 Oakland AT&T Park 7:15 KNBR 680 KNBR 680/NBC Bay Area *denotes sellout Sat., March 29 Oakland Oakland Col. 1:05 DEFENSIVE INNINGS SPRING TRAINING BROADCAST COVERAGE Player C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF TOT Abreu • Flagship station KNBR Radio (680 AM, SF), the Adrianza Giants Radio Network will carry 12 Cactus League 22 22 games (all weekend games, as well as March 13 at Arias 4 36 1 41 Texas and March 21 vs.