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As fans tried to console themselves after the Giants' game three loss to the Washington Nationals Monday night one man had the courage to lead the team on to the National League Championship Series, on the back of a motorized scooter.
When Andrew Susac was in the sixth grade he wrote a story about playing for the Giants. He would, as the story goes, pass Barry Bonds as baseball's all-time home run king.
The San Francisco Giants may have knocked off the team with the National League's best regular season record but that doesn't mean they're the new favorites to win the World Series, or the National League Pennant for that matter.
Champagne was sprayed in the clubhouse again Tuesday night after the San Francisco Giants won the last of three consecutive one-run games with the Washington Nationals to advance to the National League Championship Series.
Joe Panik scored the go-ahead run in the seventh inning on Aaron Barrett's bases-loaded wild pitch, and the San Francisco Giants beat the Washington Nationals 3-2 on Tuesday night to return to the NL Championship Series.
San Francisco and the Giants are a perfect fit - both steeped in tradition but continuously evolving and getting better (and weirder) with each season.
San Francisco's China Basin Building was briefly evacuated Tuesday morning after a call of a suspicious package, which ended up being a bottle of booze, prompted a Hazmat team and the bomb squad to respond.
Aside from a seemingly generous strike zone, Scott also appeared to clap when Yasiel Puig was struck out during the third inning.
Having snapped San Francisco's NL-record postseason win streak, Gio Gonzalez and the Nationals look to stay alive Tuesday night when they oppose 2012 postseason hero Ryan Vogelsong in Game 4 at AT&T Park.
Doug Fister pitched seven shutout innings and the Washington Nationals took advantage of Madison Bumgarner's one off-target throw, staving off elimination in the NL Division Series with a 4-1 win against the San Francisco Giants on Monday.
Two days after playing the longest postseason game in Major League Baseball history the Giants will send the exact same lineup - except for the pitcher's spot - that won game two of the National League Division Series in 18 innings Saturday.
San Francisco leads Washington 2-0 in the NL Division Series, two years after losing its first two games at home to the Reds - just as the Nationals did this time. The Giants became the first team in major league history to overcome an 0-2 deficit in a best-of-five series by winning three straight road games.
A church in San Francisco's Parkside neighborhood is getting into the spirit of the Giants third playoff run in the past five seasons.
The San Francisco Giants have won the the first game of the National League Division Series against the top-seeded Washington Nationals Friday by a 3-2 score.
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Friday's matchup between Washington's Stephen Strasburg and San Francisco's Jake Peavy - pals who sometimes work out together in San Diego - gives one indication of the gap in experience the series represents. Strasburg, held out of the 2012 postseason to protect his surgically repaired elbow, will be making his playoff debut; Peavy will be making his sixth October start, including as a member of last season's World Series champion Boston Red Sox.
The Giants were not considered the most talented roster entering the 2010 or 2012 divisional playoff round, but bucked the odds to capture the World Championship each time. After that, and an 8-0 thumping of the Pirates Wednesday in the Wild Card round, you would think that oddsmakers would have learned to fear the beard, but no - the Giants (along with fellow wild card winner Kansas City) face the longest odds to win it all of the remaining eight teams at 10-1.
She wasn't the most menacing looking person in Pittsburgh Pirates garb Wednesday night, but a grey-haired woman in glasses was caught on camera Wednesday taking in the National League Wild Card Playoff game from inside the Giants dugout.
Madison Bumgarner pitched a four-hitter with 10 strikeouts and Brandon Crawford hit the first grand slam by a shortstop in postseason history as the San Francisco Giants routed the Pittsburgh Pirates 8-0 on Wednesday night in the National League wild-card game.
When this guy is on his game, and it's quite often, he's more precise than a Rolex. And the timing of this win was season-saving for San Francisco.
"I will be wearing this to support not only my package but also the #SFGiants! Go Giants!!"
Coach Madden talks about watching the A's lose to the Royals in the AL postseason opener and discusses what he thinks Tony Sparano, the Raiders' newly appointed interim coach, should do.
Salvador Perez singled down the left-field line with two outs in the 12th inning, allowing Christian Colon to score from second base and giving the long-suffering Royals a 9-8 victory over the Oakland Athletics in a wild AL wild-card game Tuesday night.
