SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS NEWS

Will Wilson - Comes off IL Wilson (undisclosed) went 0-for-3 on Wednesday in Double-A Richmond's 7-4 loss to Hartford after being reinstated from the 7-day injured list prior to the game.

Impact Wilson was sidelined for just under a month due to the unspecified injury. For the season, the 23-year-old middle infielder is slashing .236/.360/.486 with five home runs and a stolen base across 86 plate appearances.

MAY 29, 2022 • ROTOWIRE

Wyatt Mathisen - Healthy at Triple-A Mathisen (undisclosed) has appeared in two games for Triple-A Sacramento since being reinstated from the 7-day injured list Tuesday, going 0-for-5 with two walks and a run.

Impact Mathisen was sidelined for just under a month due to the unspecified injury. For the season, the 28-year-old is hitting .154/.262/.346 while striking out in 31.1 percent of his 61 plate appearances at Sacramento.

MAY 29, 2022 • ROTOWIRE

Franklin Labour - Returns from IL Labour (undisclosed) has gone 1-for-8 with a run, an RBI and five strikeouts in two games since Double-A Richmond reinstated from the 7-day injured list Tuesday.

Impact Labour was sidelined for just over two weeks with the unspecified injury. For the season, the 24-year-old outfielder is slashing .185/.290/.395 with four home runs and a stolen base across 93 plate appearances at Richmond.

MAY 29, 2022 • ROTOWIRE

Darin Ruf - Sitting Sunday Ruf is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the Reds, Maria I. Guardado of MLB.com reports.

Impact Ruf will be on the bench for the second time in three games and looks like he may have to settle for a part-time role even while Brandon Belt (knee) and LaMonte Wade (knee) are on the injured list. Wilmer Flores is expected to serve as the Giants' regular first baseman while Belt is on the shelf, while Joc Pederson and Luis Gonzalez should pick up starts in the corner outfield against right-handed pitching.

MAY 29, 2022 • ROTOWIRE

Donovan Walton - Retreats to bench Walton is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the Reds, Maria I. Guardado of MLB.com reports.

Impact Following his promotion from Triple-A Sacramento on Wednesday, Walton started in three straight games and went 3-for-10 with a pair of doubles and a run. Despite his quality work at the dish, Walton still looks like he'll serve as more of a utility man while he's up with the Giants, especially while Thairo Estrada continues to perform well as the team's primary second baseman.

MAY 29, 2022 • ROTOWIRE

Reds host the Giants, try to extend home win streak

The Cincinnati Reds, on a four-game home winning streak, host the San Francisco Giants

MAY 29, 2022 • ASSOCIATED PRESS

Pederson Pulls Out Receipts to Show Group Text Exchange With Pham The Giants outfielder offered some background into his ordeal with the Reds outfielder.

MAY 29, 2022 • STAR-TELEGRAM.COM

Curt Casali - Goes 1-for-4 in return Casali went 1-for-4 in Saturday's 3-2 loss to the Reds.

Impact Casali missed the minimum seven days on the concussion injured list. He went 7-for-16 (.438) in the six games before he was hurt, and he had started to claw away some playing time from the struggling Joey Bart. Casali has a .263/.338/.456 slash line with three home runs, 10 RBI, seven runs scored and a pair of doubles through 20 contests. He'll likely continue to see a timeshare behind the dish going forward.

MAY 29, 2022 • ROTOWIRE

Evan Longoria - Swats long ball Saturday Longoria went 1-for-3 with a solo home run and a walk in Saturday's 3-2 loss to the Reds.

Impact Longoria's sixth-inning blast got the Giants within a run, but that was as close as they got. After a slow start to the season following a finger injury that cost him a month to begin the year, he's started to pick it up at the plate with hits in five straight games. Longoria is 7-for-18 (.389 in that span). The third baseman owns a .239/.271/.478 slash line with three homers, seven RBI, four runs scored and two doubles in 48 plate appearances.

MAY 29, 2022 • ROTOWIRE

Alex Wood - Early homer leads to loss Wood (3-4) took the loss Saturday versus the Reds. He allowed three runs on four hits and a walk with six strikeouts in 5.2 innings.

Impact Three of the five baserunners Wood allowed came in the first inning. Kyle Farmer took him deep to give the Reds an early lead, and the Giants' offense wasn't able to get Wood off the hook. The southpaw had a rough May, allowing 15 runs (14 earned) in 23.2 innings across five starts. He's at a 4.81 ERA, 1.47 WHIP and 45:13 K:BB across 43 innings overall in his nine starts this year. He'll look to get things back on track with a road start in Miami next week.

MAY 29, 2022 • ROTOWIRE

LEADING OFF: Rookies Witt, Gorman and Harris draw attention

Bobby Witt Jr. began the season as a highly rated prospect and looks like he’s starting to heat up

MAY 29, 2022 • ASSOCIATED PRESS

Farmer's power, Aristides' arm send Reds past Giants 3-2

Right fielder Aristides Aquino threw out pinch-runner Joey Bart at the plate to end the game, and the Cincinnati Reds held off the San Francisco Giants 3-2 behind Kyle Farmer’s ear...

MAY 28, 2022 • ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tommy Pham benched for three games over fantasy football tiff with Joc Pederson - The Boston Globe Pham smacked Peterson in the face before the Giants and Reds played Friday, with the latter explaining he'd been accused of some “sketchy” s...

MAY 28, 2022 • BOSTONGLOBE.COM

Fellow MLB managers offer former Tiger Gabe Kapler support for protest Gabe Kapler, manager of the Giants, said he doesn’t plan to be on the field for the anthem as a protest following the school shootings in Te...

MAY 28, 2022 • DETROITNEWS.COM

Fellow managers offer Gabe Kapler support for protest

Several of Gabe Kapler’s fellow managers are offering their support for his decision to avoid the field during the national anthem as a protest following the school shootings in Te...

MAY 28, 2022 • ASSOCIATED PRESS

Giants' Gabe Kapler, distressed over mass shootings, skips national anthem The San Francisco Giants manager said he would stay off the field during the anthem “until I feel better about the direction of our country....

MAY 28, 2022 • WASHINGTONPOST.COM

More details, fallout emerge from Tommy Pham's slap of Giants' Joc Pederson CINCINNATI — More details and fallout of Tommy Pham’s slap heard ’round the baseball world emerged Saturday in the lead up to the Giants’ se...

MAY 28, 2022 • CHARLOTTEOBSERVER.COM

Tommy Pham suspended three games for pregame fight with Joc Pederson over —fantasy football text! - The Boston Globe Pham confronted and slapped Pederson while San Francisco warmed up in the outfield Friday.

MAY 28, 2022 • BOSTONGLOBE.COM

Reds' Pham suspended 3 games for slapping Giants' Pederson

San Francisco Giants outfielder Joc Pederson said Reds outfielder Tommy Pham slapped him over a fantasy football dispute.

MAY 28, 2022

Reds' Pham suspended 3 games for slapping Pederson

Cincinnati Reds outfielder Tommy Pham has been suspended by Major League Baseball for three games after San Francisco Giants outfielder Joc Pederson said Pham slapped him because o...

MAY 28, 2022 • ASSOCIATED PRESS

Joey Bart - Not starting Saturday Bart will sit Saturday against Cincinnati, Maria I. Guardado of MLB.com reports.

Impact Bart didn't have much of an edge in playing time over Curt Casali throughout the middle of May, and with Casali back from a concussion Saturday there's no guarantee Bart will make more than half the starts going forward. Casali owns an .816 OPS in 19 games this season, while Bart has struggled to a .634 OPS in 30 contests.

MAY 28, 2022 • ROTOWIRE

Thairo Estrada - Remains on bench Estrada isn't starting Saturday against the Reds.

Impact Estrada will be out of the lineup for a second straight game after he recently drew nine consecutive starts. Donovan Walton is starting at the keystone and batting eighth.

MAY 28, 2022 • ROTOWIRE

Wilmer Flores - Not starting Saturday Flores isn't starting Saturday's game against the Reds.

Impact Flores will get a day off after he went 3-for-8 with two doubles, two runs, an RBI and a strikeout over the last two games. Darin Ruf will take over at first base and bat third Saturday.

MAY 28, 2022 • ROTOWIRE

Michael Papierski - Optioned to Triple-A Papierski was optioned to Triple-A Sacramento on Saturday.

Impact Papierski spent a week with the major-league club and went 0-for-9 with a run, a walk and four strikeouts over five games. However, he'll head back to Sacramento after Curt Casali was reinstated from the 7-day injured list Saturday.

MAY 28, 2022 • ROTOWIRE

Curt Casali - Reinstated from injured list Casali (concussion) was reinstated from the 7-day injured list Saturday.

Impact Casali spent a week on the injured list but will start behind the plate and bat ninth Saturday against the Reds after he cleared the league's concussion protocol. Joey Bart has been struggling at the plate this season, so Casali had moved into a timeshare at catcher prior to his absence.

MAY 28, 2022 • ROTOWIRE