Words can’t describe this moment, a team with no real star beating the two-time NL champion. Throughout the playoffs the Giants have been the dark horse to reach the World Series, and now they are here.
Do they have a shot against the Rangers’ high octane offense? Yes. You can never write the Giants off. With that, here is why the Giants have a real shot at winning the 2010 World Series.
The San Francisco Giants lost to the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 5 of the 2010 NLCS. The Giants lead the series 3-2 but must now return to Philadelphia for Game 6 and Game 7 if needed. They are only one win away from from earning their fourth National League pennant since the team moved to San Francisco in 1958. It would also be the team’s first pennant since 2002.
If Game 7 is needed, the Giants can place their champagne dreams on hold for next season. The window of opportunity for them to advance to the World Series is growing ever shorter. The Phillies have been the most dominant team in the National League for the past three seasons, advancing to the World Series in the past two seasons.
I believe that the Giants have all of the tools necessary to split the final two games in Philadelphia. I also believe that they are at a severe disadvantage in a Game 7, should it be necessary.
Here are 10 reasons that Game 6 is a do or die game for the Giants.
This was a bad game. This was just a bad game.
Nothing seemed to go right for the Giants in this one.
Panda choked. Two runs scored on Aubrey Huff’s fielding error. Jayson Werthless hit a home run. Cody Ross made the last out tagging from second to third in the bottom of the third inning. Both Giants pinch hitters promptly struck out. And Phillies pitching had their way with the Giants lineup.
The Giants scored once on Cody Ross’s RBI single, Timmy had one bad inning and that was all she wrote.
The game was close throughout, “torture” as always. We Giants fans have had so many tortuous games with mostly positive results we were starting to like this whole torture thing.
But this was the bad kind of torture. This was this kind of torture, courtesy of medievality.com:
“The torturer turned the handle causing the ropes to pull the victim’s arms. Eventually, the victim’s bones were dislocated with a loud crack. If the torturer kept turning the handles, some of the limbs were torn apart, usually the arms.”
Yeah, that about describes it.
Here are the grades for the Giants in Game 5 of the NLCS. Those a bit squeamish look away.
Hey there, baseball fans! Welcome to Game Five of the NLCS between the visiting Philadelphia Phillies and the San Francisco Giants.
Amateur baseball historian Evan Adrian here, guiding you through what could be the final game of this series.
The Giants won a classic October contest last night, beating the Phillies 6-5 on a ninth inning sac fly courtesy of Juan Uribe. They now stand just one game away from closing this thing out and punching their ticket to the 2010 World Series.
In a pitching rematch of Game One, the Phillies trot out their ace Roy Halladay to face the Giants’ ace Tim Lincecum. Philly is hoping Halladay can conjure up some of his no-hit NLDS magic and take this series back home. San Fran is hoping to close this one out in front of their raucous home crowd.
Keep it locked right here to follow the action every step of the way!
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Buster Posey has announced himself to Major League Baseball. The San Francisco Giants rookie catcher broke out for the Giants in game 5 going four for five with two RBI’s, in the Giants 6-5 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. The Giants now lead the best of seven series three games to one.
It was Posey’s at-bat in the bottom of the ninth that was the biggest, as Posey singled to right off of Roy Oswalt, sending Aubrey Huff to third, to set up Juan Uribe’s sacrifice fly.
The entire country now knows of Buster Posey, here are some highlights of this young stars career.
The San Francisco Giants can smell the pennant.
After an impressive Game 3 win behind Matt Cain and Cody Ross, San Francisco has a 2-1 edge in games in the 2010 NLCS against the Philadelphia Phillies. Game 4 will be played Wednesday in San Francisco, where the teams will also duel in Game 5 before (potentially) heading back to Philadelphia.
The Giants have to feel good about taking the lead for the second time in this series, after the two-time defending National League champion Phillies rallied to rout the G-men at Citizen’s Bank Park in Game 2 of the set. Manager Bruce Bochy looks like a genius for the myriad adjustments he has made as the series has progressed, and the offense has done just enough to support the stellar pitching staff.
Going into Game 4, the Giants have their foot on the throat of Charlie Manuel’s crew. The series become a very dicey proposition with a Phillies win, but if San Francisco can pull out a victory to go up 3-1, the series is all but over. Ten things will make or break the Giants’ effort to move within shouting distance of their first pennant since 2002. What are they?
Read on.
The 2010 National League Championship series between the San Francisco Giants and the Philadelphia Phillies has already given us some sterling starting pitching. Despite what a few of the the classier Philly fans believe.
Roy Halladay and Tim Lincecum hooked Cy Young horns in Game 1 and, though neither was on top of his superlative game, they still managed to whiff 15 batters in an evenly split 14 combined innings.
Roy Oswalt and Jonathan Sanchez dueled in Game 2 with the Phillies’ ace walking away the better man on the evening. The midseason acquisition spun eight frames of three-hit ball, surrendering Cody Ross’ fourth postseason big fly in the fifth inning as his only blemish.
Sanchez wasn’t quite as dirty, but he managed five erratic innings while only allowing two earned runs to a vastly superior offense.
And the fun isn’t over yet.
With the seven-gamer knotted at a game apiece, the Gents and Phightin’s will give us at least three more scintillating matchups between starting pitchers.
Matt Cain and Cole Hamels will reignite hostilities when the series opens in the City on Tuesday, and we’ll probably see rookie phenom Madison Bumgarner before another dose of Doc Vs. the Franchise in Game 5.
Depending on how the contests unfold, we might see one crack this list of the top 10 pitching matchups in the history of Major League Baseball.
Through just two games and six at-bats in the 2010 NLCS, Cody Ross has hit an astounding three home runs.
Ross homered twice off Roy “Doc” Halladay, which is fascinating given the fact that Ross’ name backwards is “ssory doc” (sorry Doc).
Ross, who was claimed off waivers from Florida, has been one of the least likely playoff heroes in recent memory, which begs the question: Who is the most improbable postseason hero of all time?
NLCS Game 2: San Francisco Giants vs. Philadelphia Phillies Live Blog
Salutations, Bleacher Bums! Marc Juberg here, ready to bring a little West Coast flavor to the 2010 National League Championship Series, which the national media seemed determined to have us believe was over before it started.
But the Giants, fresh off an impressive Game 1 victory over Roy Halladay and the Phillies, send southpaw Jonathan Sanchez to the mound against the second assassin in Philly’s Murderer’s Row of starters, right-hander Roy Oswalt.
Will the Phillies calm the pundits’ nerves and even the series at one game apiece? Or will the Giants, a team of torture looking to become a team of destiny, take a 2-0 lead back to the friendly confines of AT&T Park? Stay tuned!
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Following Tim Lincecum’s second masterful outing of the postseason against the Phillies in Game 1 of the NLCS Saturday, I scanned all the way back to 1958 when the Giants moved to San Francisco from New York to find the greatest pitching gems in SF Giants postseason history.
I found some obvious names, I found some surprise names, I found three names from this year’s Giants squad (no, Barry Zito wasn’t one of them).
Given what Giants starting pitchers have already done this postseason, there’s a strong case to call them the best SF Giants starting rotation ever.
Here are the Top 10 Pitching Gems in SF Giants Postseason History.
The Giants had to win the game for the pitcher to be included.