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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]
Additionally, the Giants' starting rotation boasted three Cy Young Award winners: Randy Johnson, Tim Lincecum, and Barry Zito. After the season ended, Lincecum won his second straight Cy Young. [7] The Giants would build on their surprising 2009 season the following year, winning the World Series. It would be their first in San Francisco.
On June 5, 2009, Wilson saved Randy Johnson's 300th win. Johnson, searching for his 300th win, gave up one unearned run in six innings in Game 1 of a doubleheader against the Washington Nationals; the Giants had a 2–1 lead in the eighth inning. With runners on first and second for the Nationals and two outs, Wilson was called on to get the save.
The 2009 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2009 season.As the 105th [1] edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff contested between the Philadelphia Phillies, champions of the National League (NL) and defending World Series champions, and the New York Yankees, champions of the American League (AL).
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 ...
The Phillies hosted Games 1, 2 and 6, while the Giants were at home for Games 3, 4 and 5. The Giants would go on to defeat the Texas Rangers in the World Series in five games, winning their first World Series championship since 1954, and their first since relocating to San Francisco from New York City back in 1958, ending the Curse of Coogan's ...
Jason David Schmidt (born January 29, 1973), is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher.In his career, he has played for the Los Angeles Dodgers (2007–2009), San Francisco Giants (2001–06), Pittsburgh Pirates (1996–2001) and Atlanta Braves (1995–96), by whom he had been drafted in the eighth round, 206th overall, of the 1991 draft.
In Game 3 of the NLCS against the Cardinals on October 17, Cain allowed three runs in 6 + 2 ⁄ 3 innings and was charged with the loss as the Giants lost 3–1. [82] On October 29, in Game 7, Cain threw 5 + 2 ⁄ 3 shutout innings and earned the win as the Giants won 9–0, marking the second time in the playoffs that Cain had won a series ...