The Giants lose a heartbreaker 6-5 to the Wild Card Reds. They seemed to run into a team that has been red hot the last week and half passing 3 teams to get in to the playoffs.

Down 6-1, the Giants fought back to cut the deficit to one run in the 8th and then proceeded to get out of a 9th inning jam that begun with a lead off triple. There just wasn’t enough “magic” as the Giants couldn’t to get the tying run home and another AZL season closes. It was a great game none the less and regardless of the outcome, this season has been a bright spot for the Giants system. Lots of potential on this roster and I just wanted to personally congratulate the players for their hard work and success this summer.

The MLB team is coming to town next week, and then we will jump back in with Instructional League followed by the Arizona Fall League. Stay Tuned…

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Giants down the Cubs in their final meeting of the AZL. I had the privilege of shooting this game alongside Jordan Megenhardt who also supplied some photos for use. I encourage you to check out his site for more superb baseball photography.

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This is a very small set of pre game shots since I couldn’t get anything useable from the practice field lights. Giants lost 8-3 after a big 5th inning rally from the A’s.

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Scottsdale Stadium may have the worst lighting in the Cactus League, but here are some shots from pre-game and the first couple innings. Giants fall 4-3, behind a 2RBI rehab night from Matt Downs.

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The Giants took down the Dodgers 3-1 with all around dominating performances by Austin Fleet, Ryan Bean, Jacob Dunnington, and Heath Hembree. Tommy Lasorda was in the house doing some “scouting”, which is probably why they played this game in the main stadium instead of the practice fields. Even though the stadium lights aren’t MLB standard here, they allow for some useable late inning shots.

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The new photo gallery and archives are now live over at AZGphotography.com

This is a welcome upgrade over the previous Flickr database and should showcase photos in a better presentation. Currently, there is not a search function available to locate specific player photos as this is being constructed/troubleshot.

Over the next couple of days I will fix the links within previous posts to route to the new archives as well.

Thanks again for following the site and please feel free to email any feedback you may have. I’m always trying to make things as simplistic and clean as possible and appreciate your comments.

- Joe

I am currently working on my online archives via Flickr. Unfortunately, as I do this the links to full galleries on the site will be down. I didn’t plan to do this at this time, but Flickr decided to force changes in the accessibility of my photo files without the ability to opt out of universal changes to their site. I am currently searching for a better option to host the archives of photos, if anyone has any ideas, please feel free to send me an email. Any help is greatly appreciated.

In the meantime, the photos on the site itself will still be visible and I will continue to throw recent shots up here as I shoot games.

Thanks in advance for your understanding and I hope to get the archives back up ASAP.

- Joe

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