Toggle navigation Champs or Chumps. Past 10 Seasons - San Francisco Giants History. Overview The San Francisco Giants have played a total of seasons. Have the San Francisco Giants gone by any other names? He won 20 games for the first time in and then did it five consecutive years.
The Giants also brought up a fresh-faced year-old outfielder in , and although he was not physically imposing, Mel Ott would power his way through 20 seasons and finish with career home runs, the most hit by a National Leaguer to that time.
Ott would follow Terry into the manager's chair in Although the Giants were not winning, they continued to have a searing, white-hot rivalry with the Brooklyn Dodgers, which was why New York City was shocked when the Dodgers long-time manager Leo Durocher agreed to replace Ott in the middle of the season.
Durocher took the helm and piloted the Giants to two of their greatest seasons. The Giants were no match for the Yankees in the World Series.
But three years later they were back to sweep a Cleveland team that had set an American League record with wins. During this time the Giants brought up the "Say Hey Kid" — Willie Mays, and was his breakout year with 41 home runs, runs batted in and a.
By the time he retired in , Mays had 3, hits, home runs, a slew of franchise and National League offensive records and he could lay claim to being the greatest center fielder in National League history. Despite Mays as a drawing card, attendance at the crumbling Polo Grounds dwindled, and owner Horace Stoneham did what only a few years earlier seemed unthinkable — he moved the team from New York City to San Francisco in Even with a surprising world championship the Giants have not enjoyed the success in California they had in New York, winning only four pennants , , and They did flex considerable muscle during their first decade out west.
High-kicking mound ace Juan Marichal kept the Giants in contention almost every season. The team featured Mays 49 home runs, runs batted in,.
The team, managed by Roger Craig and led by Kevin Mitchell's big bat 47 home runs, runs batted in,. The Giants brought in free agent Barry Bonds in , and his big season 46 home runs, runs batted in and a league leading.
The Giants again found disappointment in the World Series, however. At this time the Giants were approached by San Francisco. O'Malley, who needed a second team on the West Coast in order to make his move work, pushed Stoneham toward relocation. The "NY" script on the Giants' caps, along with the orange trim on their uniforms, and the blue background used by the Dodgers, would be adopted by the Mets. The Mets still use this color scheme today, with the addition of black in -- the Giants' orange and black combined with Dodger blue.
Though recently the club has enjoyed relatively sustained success, there have also been prolonged stretches of mediocrity, along with two instances when the club's ownership threatened to move it out of San Francisco. Most disappointingly for the large fan base that they have maintained ever since their arrival in the city, the Giants have as yet failed to win a World Series title for San Francisco. The next season, Willie McCovey won the same award. The new stadium quickly gained a reputation for being one of the most inhospitable in baseball, with swirling winds, cold temperatures and impenetrable evening fogs making for a torturous experience; the radiant heating system installed never worked.
Candlestick Park's reputation was sealed in the 9th inning of the All-Star Game , when after a day of perfect conditions, the winds rose. A strong gust caused Giants relief pitcher Stu Miller to slip off the pitching rubber during his delivery, resulting in a balk and a baseball legend that Miller was "blown off the mound". In , after another memorable pennant chase with the Dodgers which resulted in a playoff series, the Giants brought a World Series to San Francisco. Losing the series 4 games to 3 to the New York Yankees , the seventh game went to the bottom of the ninth with the Yankees ahead With Matty Alou on first base and two outs, Willie Mays sliced a double down the right field line.
Right fielder Roger Maris , whose 61 home run season in has historically overshadowed his great defensive work, quickly got to the ball and rifled a throw to the infield, preventing Alou from scoring the tying run.
With the speedy Mays on second, any base hit by the next batter, Willie McCovey , would likely have won the series for the Giants. McCovey hit a screaming line drive that was snared by second baseman Bobby Richardson , bringing the Series to a sudden end. Earlier in the inning, a failed sacrifice bunt by Felipe Alou had ultimately resulted in Matty not scoring on Mays' double, which started a lifelong dedication to fundamentals on Felipe's part.
In addition, to rub salt in the wound, Richardson was not originally positioned to catch the drive, he only moved there three steps to the left in reaction to a foul smash by McCovey on the previous pitch. Giants fan and resident of nearby Santa Rosa Charles Schulz made a rare reference to the real world in his Peanuts comic strips soon afterward.
In the first two panels, Charlie Brown and Linus are sitting on a porch step, looking glum. In the last panel, Charlie cries to the heavens, "Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher? This time, Charlie cries, "Or why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just two feet higher? Although the Giants didn't make another World Series until , The Giants of the '60s continued to be pennant contenders thanks to several future hall-of-famers, including Gaylord Perry , who pitched a no-hitter with the Giants in ; Juan Marichal , a pitcher with a memorable high-kicking delivery; McCovey, who won the National League MVP award in , and Mays, who hit his th career home run in The Giants' next appearance in the post-season was During this decade, the Giants gave up many players who became successful elsewhere.
In Bob Lurie bought the team, saving it from being moved to Toronto. A year later, Toronto was awarded an expansion team the Blue Jays , but San Francisco baseball fans' worries about losing their beloved Giants had not completely gone away just yet. The rest of the s was a generally disappointing decade for the Giants, finishing no higher than third place in any season. That 3rd place season was They were atop the West for most of the season, but the Dodgers heated up to eventually win the West and the NL Pennant.
However, Robinson's tenure lasted less than four years and was generally unsuccessful. In that tenure, the Giants finished a game over. They were in the midst of a 3-team pennant race with the Dodgers and Braves. In , a year which saw the Giants lose games the most in franchise history , owner Bob Lurie responded by hiring Al Rosen as general manager. New manager Roger Craig served as the Giants' new manager from to In Craig's first five full seasons with the Giants, the team never finished with a losing record.
Louis Cardinals in seven games. The bright spot in that defeat was Giants outfielder Jeffrey Leonard , who was named the series MVP in a losing effort. Although the team used 15 different starting pitchers, the Giants won the National League pennant. Williams' next pitch missed the outside corner to bring the count to 1-and After Clark fouled off two more pitches, he hit a screaming line drive up the middle to bring in two runs.
In the top of the 9th inning, Steve Bedrosian was shaky as he gave up a run. But ultimately, Bedrosian was able to get Ryne Sandberg to ground-out for out 3. The series is perhaps best remembered because the Loma Prieta earthquake on October 17, disrupted the planned Game 3 of the series at Candlestick Park.
After a ten-day delay in the series, Oakland finished up its sweep of San Francisco. Following the '89 World Series defeat, a local ballot initiative to fund a new stadium in San Francisco failed, threatening the franchise's future in the city.
After the season, owner Bob Lurie, who had previously saved the franchise from moving to Toronto in , put the team up for sale. A group of investors from St. Petersburg, led by Vince Naimoli , reached an agreement to purchase the team and move them across the country. In addition to the anticipated move to downtown San Francisco, the Giants' ownership also made a major personnel move to solidify fan support.
Before even hiring a new General Manager or officially being approved as the new owners, Magowan signed superstar free agent Barry Bonds a move which MLB initially blocked until some terms were negotiated to protect Lurie and Bonds in case the sale failed , a move that shaped the franchise's fortunes for more than a decade.
This led the Giants to a great record in Dusty Baker 's first year as manager, which earned Baker the Manager of the Year award. Desperately needing a win against the Dodgers in the final game of the year to force a one-game playoff with the Braves, the controversial choice of Giants rookie pitcher Salomon Torres proved disastrous as he gave up 3 runs in the first 4 innings and the Giants went on to lose the game After MLB 's establishment of the Three-Division- Wild Card playoff format following the season, New York Times sports columnist Dave Anderson captured the feeling of many baseball purists regarding the thrilling and for Giants fans, heartbreaking winner-take-all outcome as the 'last pure pennant race'.
The period of to were not good years for the Giants, punctuated by the strike that canceled the World Series in The strike cost Matt Williams a chance to beat Roger Maris ' single season home run record - he was on pace for over 60 homers when the strike hit with 47 games left to play. The Giants then came in last place in both and , as key injuries and slumps hurt them.
Sign up to receive our daily Morning Lineup to stay in the know about the latest trending topics around Major League Baseball. Dodgers: 7 Years: , '59, '63, '65, '81, '88, The Dodgers have had most of their World Series success since moving to L. They were a frequent World Series participant when they were in Brooklyn, but they went in the Fall Classic while playing in their original home. After losing back-to-back World Series to the Astros in and the Red Sox in '18, the Dodgers hold the distinction of having lost the most World Series of any franchise with 14 the Yankees are next at They put those two Series behind them and ended a season drought by knocking off the Rays in the '20 World Series.
Pirates: 5 Years: , '25, '60, '71, '79 Pittsburgh is one of baseball's original franchises, and though the Pirates have made just seven World Series appearances in their history, they have made them count. The Bucs'.
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