A Major League Baseball executive thinks the Cincinnati Reds and San Francisco Giants should open their wallets before the trade deadline.

Ronny Mauricio and Juan Soto homered in the seventh inning, and the New York Mets beat the San Francisco Giants 5-3 to match a season best with their seventh straight win.

The Pittsburgh Pirates get an opportunity to continue their run of spoiling other teams' postseason hopes when they open a three-game road series against the San Francisco Giants on Monday night.

The Giants would much rather forget about the dreadful series that they recently concluded against the Mets, in which they were swept.

It was a full circle moment for Matt Gage. The Broadalbin-Perth and Siena graduate got his first-career Major League Baseball start with the San Francisco Giants who drafted him more than a decade ago.

In a surprising turn of events, since the San Francisco Giants acquired slugger Rafael Devers, their offensive production has actually worsened.

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