Just a very short Troy E. Renck piece about how Jim Tracy felt having to pinch hit Friday night for All-Star Brad Hawpe with Jason Giambi.  Giambi won the game for the Rockies.  Hawpe has been struggling the second half of this season, and with the Rockies needing to win games, Tracy had to put [...]

Last nights Mets game could have been one of the greatest Mets games I have seen all year. Ollie Perez seems to have figured something out, enough so that long after the Shea faithful would have taken him out of the game (after he walked 3 in one inning) Ollie came back out to pitch [...]

Apparently, The  SF Giants have gotten Barry Bonds to agree to do a press briefing in each road city that the Giants travel to, on the first day of the series, and to do them in the dugout.  I’m sure you realize that most beat reporters don’t have access to the slugger except when he [...]