{"id":772658,"date":"2026-08-07T19:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T19:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/772658\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T19:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T19:42:14","slug":"giants-make-pitching-decision-ahead-of-tigers-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/772658\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants Make Pitching Decision Ahead of Tigers Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/mlb\/san-francisco-giants\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Giants<\/a> have finalized their pitching plans for Friday night&#8217;s series opener against the <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/mlb\/detroit-tigers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Tigers<\/a> at Oracle Park.<\/p>\n<p> NBC Sports Bay Area beat writer Alex Pavlovic reported on X that veteran right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/players\/jt_brubaker\/588296\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JT Brubaker<\/a> will serve as the opener in San Francisco&#8217;s scheduled bullpen game. The decision comes as the Giants continue navigating rotation shortages while leaning on their bullpen to cover innings. <\/p>\n<p>The Giants enter the matchup at 48-67, sitting fourth in the National League West, while the Tigers arrive with a 56-59 record and remain 3.5 games behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/mlb\/chicago-white-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago White Sox<\/a> in the American League Central.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco Giants have finalized their pitching plans for Friday night&#8217;s series opener against the Detroit Tigers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,162,4,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342],"class_list":["post-772658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco-giants","tag-baseball","tag-giants","tag-mlb","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-sanfrancisco","tag-sanfranciscogiants","tag-sf","tag-sf-giants","tag-sfgiants"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117055936500707942","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}