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July 14 — Starting pitchers Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain are voted to the 2009 All-Star Game, with Lincecum being named the NL starting pitcher [10] July 19 – Team majority owner Sue Burns dies of lung cancer [11] July 27 — Giants trade pitching prospect Scott Barnes to the Cleveland Indians for first baseman Ryan Garko [12]
In 1904, the Giants won the National League championship but no World Series was played. Christy Mathewson was the Giants' Opening Day starting pitcher that season. [3] The Giants also won the 19th century World Series twice, in 1888 and 1889. Ledell Titcomb and Mickey Welch were the Giants Opening Day starting pitchers in 1888 and 1889 ...
MLB All-Star Game NL Starting Pitcher: 1 2009 [50] NL Pitcher of the Month: 1 June 2009 [11] NL Player of the Week: 3 2009, 2013–2014 [11] Major League Baseball Starter of the Year 1 2008 [151] Players Choice Award for NL's Outstanding Pitcher 1 2008 [152] [153] San Francisco Giants Opening Day starting pitcher: 4 2009–2012 [154]
The rematch of these division rivals was a must-win game for the Giants in a season where every game was quickly becoming a must-win game for the Giants. A win would keep alive the Giants' hopes of winning the NFC East. Dallas receiver Roy Williams scored the game's first touchdown in the second quarter, on a 4-yard pass from Romo. Manning ...
October 10 – Larry Jansen, 89, two-time All-Star pitcher for the New York Giants (1947–1954) and Cincinnati Reds (1956), who won 21 games in his rookie season while leading the National League with a .808 winning percentage, and was the winning pitcher in the 1951 playoff game decided by Bobby Thomson's Shot Heard 'Round the World; later ...
It was the first perfect game for the Giants franchise (first in San Francisco), the ninth in NL history, the fifth no-hitter thrown by MLB pitchers in 2012, and the second of three perfect games of the season, a Major League record, after Chicago White Sox pitcher Philip Humber threw one on April 21. Cain threw 125 pitches, the most by a ...
[1] [2] Two nights later, his teammate Dennis Martinez threw a perfect game against the Dodgers. On September 3, 1995, Gardner notched his only save in the major leagues. He pitched the bottom of the 11th for the Marlins to nail down an 8-7 victory over the Astros. [3] Gardner played the last six seasons of his career with the Giants.
On August 24, 1975, Halicki threw a no-hitter for the San Francisco Giants against the New York Mets in a 6–0 victory. [1] Halicki's no hitter was the last no-hit game by a Giants pitcher at home until Jonathan Sánchez's no-hit winning game on July 10, 2009.