SAN FRANCISCO — Sunday notes…
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Chicago Cubs vs. San Francisco Giants preview, Sunday 6/14, 2:10 CT
- IT’S PRETTY RARE: The Cubs swept three games at San Francisco on Sept. 13-15, 1993. They have done it in only one of the 35 subsequent series before the current one, July 26-28, 2013. This is their 12th since then. Five times, the Cubs won the first two games and lost the third, most recently in 2023. In 2009, they won three, then lost the fourth. (Courtesy BCB’s JohnW53)
- RUN SCORING NOTE: The Cubs have scored 20 runs in their last three games (nine, five, six). They had scored at least 20 in 11 previous three-game spans this season, some overlapping, but only twice since May 8: 21 runs, May 15-17, and 22, May 27-29. They played 10 more games after the last of the previous span before the first of the current span. (Courtesy BCB’s JohnW53)
- THE PITCHING IS BETTER THAN YOU THINK: Cubs pitchers have yielded no more than three runs in a season-best four consecutive games. They had allowed three or fewer in three straight three times, all between March 30 and April 20. The Cubs have allowed eight runs in the last 40 innings. Six came on five homers, one on a triple and one on a walk-off single. (Courtesy BCB’s JohnW53)
- PCA! PCA! PCA!: Pete Crow-Armstrong is on a 17-game on-base streak in which he is batting .370/.425/.726 (27-for-73) with six doubles, a triple, six home runs, 10 RBI and 14 runs scored.
Ryan Rolison, LHP vs. Logan Webb, RHP

Ryan Rolison is going to open this game because the Giants generally stack the top of their lineup with left-handed hitters. This is an attempt to try to neutralize that. Rolison threw a scoreless inning vs. the Giants last Saturday at Wrigley Field and overall this year, lefties are batting .182/.263/.182 (6-for-33) against him with 13 strikeouts. Rolison last pitched Thursday against the Rockies, throwing one inning and 17 pitches.
After Rolison, Colin Rea is supposed to be the “bulk guy” this afternoon. Rea got hit pretty hard by the Rockies in his last start, last Tuesday at Coors Field. So what do you say we try to pretend that didn’t happen?
In Rea’s three previous starts he posted a 3.57 ERA and got into the sixth inning in all three of them.
Current Giants, though, have hit him hard (small sample size alert): 16-for-32 (.500) with four home runs (Luis Arraez, Matt Chapman, Rafael Devers and Jung Hoo Lee).
Rea has two outings this year as the “bulk guy” and in those he’s thrown 9.1 innings, allowed eight hits and four runs, and struck out eight.
Logan Webb has been the Giants’ best starter for the last five-plus seasons, with Top 6 Cy Young finishes three times in that span. He’s continued that this year, with a bit of a higher ERA (3.88), which has come down over his last three starts (0.90 ERA, 0.672 WHIP, no home runs in 19.1 innings).
Webb last faced the Cubs Aug. 28, 2025 in San Francisco and allowed three runs in seven innings. Ian Happ is 5-for-14 (.357) against Webb with a home run and Dansby Swanson has homered twice off him in 14 career at-bats, including a homer in that game last year.



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Where to watch Chicago Cubs vs San Francisco Giants: TV channel, start time, streaming for June 14
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The 2026 MLB season has surpassed the quarter mark, and after each team’s first 40 games, there’s plenty of reasons to tune in all summer long.
Chicago White Sox slugger Munetaka Murakami has already proven doubters wrong by launching 17 home runs, Pittsburgh’s Paul Skenes consistently looks like the best version of himself on the mound and Milwaukee ace Jacob Misiorowski is throwing harder than any starter in the majors.
The MLB action continues on Sunday as the Chicago Cubs visit the San Francisco Giants.
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- Matchup: CHC at SF
- Date: Sunday, June 14
- Time: (ET)
- Venue: Oracle Park
- Location: San Francisco, California
- TV: ABC
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Person jumps out second-story window in SF after electric scooter fire
File Photo. San Francisco Fire Department’s Engine 2.
SAN FRANCISCO – A person jumped out of a building Saturday in San Francisco after extinguishing a fire involving an electric scooter, fire officials said.
After using a fire extinguisher to put out the fire, the individual jumped from the second floor of a building at 34 Sixth St., according to the San Francisco Fire Department.
The individual sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to a hospital.
Fire crews confirmed that the fire was fully extinguished. The cause of the fire was determined to be an accident, involving an electric scooter.
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San Francisco Giants pitcher writes Bible verse on hat in defiance of Pride Night
As the old saying goes, courage is contagious. That is the exact term that should be used when a professional athlete defies the calls for complete and utter loyalty to the LGBTQ agenda during Pride Nights.
We’ve seen it from Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Blake Treinen this season, and from a small few around professional sports that have refused to wear rainbow Pride jerseys, hats and more. On Friday night in San Francisco, Giants pitcher Landen Roupp made a powerful statement of faith in God by his protest against his team celebrating Pride Night.
On a night when the San Francisco Giants invited same-sex couples to renew their marriage vows in the presence of a drag queen on the field, the national anthem was sung by an LGBTQ-affirming nondenominational church, and the team celebrated transgender people and other LGBTQ identities through their rainbow-colored hats, Roupp stood out by writing the Bible verses Genesis 9:12-16. These verses are the same ones legendary Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw wrote on his Pride hat last season during his team’s Pride Night.
Landen Roupp of the San Francisco Giants pitches against the Chicago Cubs in the top of the first inning at Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif., on June 12, 2026. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)
The verses are about God’s covenant (promise), signified through a rainbow, that He would never destroy mankind through a flood like He did in the days of the prophet Noah.
“And God said, ‘This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.’” Genesis 9:12-16
DODGERS PITCHER CLAYTON KERSHAW DISPLAYS BIBLE PASSAGE ON HAT DURING PRIDE NIGHT
Landen Roupp of the San Francisco Giants pitches against the Chicago Cubs in the top of the third inning at Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif., on June 12, 2026. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)
While unsurprisingly many Giants fans weren’t happy to see Roupp’s message on his hat, one saying, “Just let Landen Roupp go to another team, disrespecting SF Pride with his biblical reference. We don’t want him on our team,” there were many Christians on social media that showed support.
One supporter on X said, “WELL DONE, Roupp. We need more Christians with his courage.”
San Francisco Giants pitcher Landen Roupp throws a pitch to start the game against the Chicago Cubs at Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif., on June 12, 2026. (Larry Placido/Icon Sportswire)
When speaking to media postgame, Roupp said the message was meant to point people to “God’s covenant and the promise that He makes to us.”
Roupp went on to say, “It’s something that I believe in, and I stand firm in that. Thankfully, we live in a country where we get to believe what we want.”
He emphasized that the rainbow is a Christian symbol and as for the backlash to his anti-Pride messaging, he said, “There’s no hate at all. It’s just what I stand for, and what I stand in. I believe in God.” He also said he would “push them (LGBTQ-identifying individuals) to read the Bible.”
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The important point is that disagreement with a specific lifestyle does not equal hate. Many years ago we could agree to disagree, but with the infusion of the LGBTQ in corporate America and sports, athletes are expected to affirm, accept and ally with this movement. That’s not freedom, that’s coercion.
In my opinion, this takes a lot of guts and should not only be admired, but celebrated. No Christian athlete should be forced to endorse and accept something that goes against their religion.
As for Roupp’s performance, his outing wasn’t what he and his team hoped for. He went 4.2 innings, giving up 4 earned runs on 4 hits in a decisive 5-1 victory for the Chicago Cubs.
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