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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]
All-Star Game Best Pitcher Award: (2009 Game 1) ... First win/complete game victory: ... 2012, 7th game against Yomiuri Giants (Yokohama Stadium), 3 runs allowed in 7 ...
The Giants tied the game in the third, then added six runs in the sixth, taking an 8–2 lead before Lincecum allowed two more runs in the sixth and departed. He earned the win in an eventual 11-7 triumph. [77] Lincecum pitching in Game 1 of the 2010 World Series Lincecum in the 2010 World Series parade
The team was originally formed in 1883 as the New York Gothams, then the club was renamed the New York Giants in 1885. 75 years later, in 1958, the franchise moved to its current day city, San Francisco. Through the 2017 season, the Giants have played 20,528 games, winning 11,015, and losing 9,513 for a winning percentage of approximately .537. [1]
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 ...
The Giants went on to sweep the Detroit Tigers 4–0 to win the World Series. Vogelsong and Barry Zito were the only pitchers to go undefeated in the postseason amongst all Giants' starting pitchers. Vogelsong posted a 3–0 record with a 1.09 ERA, allowing three runs through 24.2 innings, the lowest ERA among all Giants' starting pitchers.
In the NLDS, the Giants defeated the Atlanta Braves 3–1. The Giants followed that up with a 4–2 win over the Philadelphia Phillies in the NLCS. Behind Tim Lincecum, the Giants wrapped up the 2010 World Series over the Texas Rangers with a 3–1 Game 5 win for their first World Series championship since 1954 and first since moving to San ...