Brandon Belt added a third on a sacrifice fly in the 3rd inning, and that was to prove to be the final run of the contest. Danny Duffy was brought in, but he too struggled allowing a single to Pablo Sandoval that moved Pence to 3rd base, and a walk to Brandon Belt to load the bases. Lynn struck out the next three batters but with two outs in the 6th inning, Pablo Sandoval doubled down the left-field line and Hunter Pence lined a single to knock him in and tie the game. After being retired in order in the 1st inning, the Giants loaded the bases in the 2nd with nobody out. National League. 3 rings in 5 years?! Incredibly, only three days after making 117 pitches in shutting out the Royals in Game 5, Bumgarner pitched 5 innings of scoreless relief making 68 pitches and not walking a batter. [28], Sunday, October 26, 2014 – 8:07 p.m. (EDT) at AT&T Park in San Francisc, Giants starter Jake Peavy was in trouble early on, escaping a jam in the 1st inning. A. J. Pierzynski, in the lineup for the injured Yadier Molina, knocked in Wong as the Cardinals took the lead back. Height of bar is margin of victory • Mouseover bar for details • Click for box score • Grouped by Month, 103. Print; By Henry Schulman. The Giants loaded the bases in the bottom half of the inning with one out, but couldn't score as both teams squandered golden opportunities to seize the initiative. The win marked the 10th consecutive postseason victory for the Giants, a streak extending back to the 2012 National League Championship Series. The Giants answered immediately though in the bottom of the 1st, as Gregor Blanco also had a leadoff double go off a fielders' glove, this time a fly-ball that was dropped by Jon Jay on the run. MLB : Series records : Colorado Rockies(H) against San Francisco Giants(A) ... San Francisco Giants 0 W H 2014/09/03 Colorado Rockies 9 - San Francisco Giants 2 W H 2014/09/02 Colorado Rockies 7 - San Francisco Giants 12 L H 2014… October 21, 2014. Hudson also settled down, but gave up another run on a double by Alex Gordon in the 6th and was removed from the game. "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" (Tony Bennett song), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2014_San_Francisco_Giants_season&oldid=991608108, Pages using infobox MLB yearly with unknown parameters, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Game Suspended (Unplayable conditions). Sep 23, SFG (85-72) lost to LAD, 2-4, 158. Matt Cain is the second starter, and he is coming off a mediocre season by his standards. Some high school data is courtesy David McWater. With their 7–1 victory, the Giants had now won 16 of their last 18 in the postseason, and handed Kansas City their first loss of the 2014 postseason. The first signs of trouble for the Giants came in the bottom of the 6th when, after a leadoff double from former Giant Nate Schierholtz and a two-out walk to Jayson Werth, Peavy was taken out of the game. Eric Hosmer added the third run for the Royals with an RBI single off reliever Javier López. Follow San Francisco Giants Team History, Regular Season Results, Postseason results, and more on ESPN.com 23. The following season, however, the team’s play fell off, as the Giants won 18 fewer games than they had in 2012, and San Francisco finished the year with a losing record. [17] Tim Hudson struck out 8 Nationals and conceded one run in ​7 1⁄3 innings of work, but was bettered by Nationals starter Jordan Zimmermann who came an out shy of recording a three-hit shutout, before walking Joe Panik and being removed from the game. The Giants too made a change as Bumgarner's night was to be over after 8 quality innings. With two outs in the bottom half of the inning, Gregor Blanco singled for the second time in as many at-bats, and then Joe Panik hit a two-run home run inside the foul-pole in right-field. This was Panik's first home-run at AT&T Park and just his second since being called up. After singles by Jon Jay and Matt Holliday to start the inning, Hudson appeared to be working through the trouble as he retired the next two hitters, however Kolten Wong hurt the Giants at the plate again, this time launching a two-run triple to cut the Giants lead to 2 runs. Highlights from the 2014 NLCS, especially from Game 3, Game 4, and Game 5. The following is a list of all regular season and postseason games played between the San Francisco 49ers and New York Giants. Then Vogelsong's attempted sacrifice bunt turned out to be the perfect bunt, with neither Gonzalez nor third baseman Anthony Rendon taking charge to field the ball, and all the runners were safe. He gave up 5 singles, a walk and a stolen base as the Royals scored 4 runs to knock him out of the game after recording just 8 outs. Bumgarner set a postseason record for scoreless innings on the road, his streak standing at ​26 2⁄3. Jul 22, 2014, Attendance: 30109, Time of Game: 5:46. In the 6th, Brandon Finnegan was the next Royals reliever to be touched up as Sandoval came through again, this time with a bases-loaded two-run single. The previous record … With the bases loaded, Hunter Strickland came on to make just his tenth overall Major League appearance and struck out Ian Desmond to end the threat. He retired the lead-off hitter, but Andrew Susac's pinch-hit single was followed by a Juan Pérez base hit. The 2014 San Francisco Giants season was the Giants' 132nd year in Major League Baseball, their 57th year in San Francisco since their move from New York following the 1957 season, and their 15th at AT&T Park. Multi-year: Blanco then attempted to bunt the runners over, and Collins threw the ball into him as he was running down the line, allowing a run to score, the trail runner to 3rd base and Blanco to reach. Please note that players may not be in the uniform of the correct team in these images. Brandon Belt hit singles in back-to-back at-bats in the 6th and 7th innings, driving in three more runs, while Buster Posey singled in the 8th inning to drive in the final run. Haft. Die San Francisco Giants sind eine US-amerikanische Baseballmannschaft.Sie spielen in der Western Division der National League in der Major League Baseball.Das Franchise ist seit 1958 in San Francisco beheimatet und war von der Gründung 1883 bis zum Umzug in New York City stationiert.. 2014 RECORD: 6-10 The Giants began the year with back-to-back losses and while they managed to string together a pair of three-game win streaks, that was all they had in them. Total Zone Rating and initial framework for Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith. How They Got Here: The Giants got off to an outstanding start this season, going 43-21 through June 8. Sep 15, SFG (82-68) lost to ARI, 2-6, 153. Chris, "Giants among men: SF walks off to win NL pennant" mlb.com, October 17, 2014. With an eerie similarity to Game 3, a fielding mistake by the Cardinals was copied later by the Giants, as Kolten Wong doubled off the glove of Blanco to make it three straight leadoff doubles. In the bottom of the 3rd inning, the Giants turned a potentially game-changing double play after the leadoff man reached. Alcides Escobar singled, and that was that for Hudson as the Giants were forced to remove a starter before the end of the 2nd inning for two straight games. Michael Morse stepped in to pinch-hit, and hit a game-tying home run into the corner in left field. This was to prove short-lived however, as Oscar Taveras hit a solo shot off Jean Machi to tie the game in the bottom half of the inning. Sep 24, SFG (85-73) lost to LAD, 1-9, 160. The Royals continued to tack on to their already unassailable lead, Cain doubling in a run in the 3rd, Alcides Escobar repeating the dose in the 5th, and Moustakas adding another on a home run in the 7th. 2014 NLCS - San Francisco Giants over St. Louis Cardinals (4-1) series statistics and schedule. The win meant the Giants held a 3–2 lead in the series, heading back to Kansas City. Points Against: 340 (21.3/g) 10th of 32. All images are property the copyright holder and are displayed here for informational purposes only. Chris, "Giants beat Nats for ninth straight postseason win" mlb.com, October 5, 2014. Jul 26, SFG (58-47) lost to LAD, 0-5, 106. Vogelsong was taken out of the game, and the bullpen was again superb for the Giants as the Cardinals couldn't add to the four runs they had at that point.