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In 1934, the team won its second title, defeating the Chicago Bears in the NFL Championship Game. The Giants won another championship four years later, and made four appearances in the NFL Championship Game from 1939 to 1946, losing each time. New York won its fourth NFL title in 1956, with a 47–7 win over the Bears in the championship game ...
Giants 23, Cowboys 19 (January 3, 2021) – The Giants held off a late Cowboys rally to win 23–19; with the entire NFC East slumping to a possible three-way division tie at 6–10. The Giants win would allow them to clinch the NFC East if the Washington Football Team lost their game to the Philadelphia Eagles later that night.
In Game 5, the Twins held off a late rally by the Athletics in the bottom of the ninth to win 5–4, and advance to the ALCS. Both teams would meet again in the ALDS in 2006, which the Athletics won in a sweep. This was the last time the Twins won a playoff series until 2023, and this remains their only LDS series win.
In Game 1, the Giants prevailed in an offensive duel by an 11–7 score. In Game 2, the Giants blew out the Rangers, 9–0, thanks to another solid pitching performance from Matt Cain. When the series moved to Arlington, the Rangers won Game 3 by a 4–2 score to win their first World Series game.
In 2010, the Giants defeated the Texas Rangers in five games to win the World Series for the first time since moving to San Francisco in 1958, thus ending the 52-year "Curse of Coogan's Bluff". The Cubs beat the Cleveland Indians in the 2016 World Series in seven games after trailing in the series 3 games to 1.
Before long, the Giants were 6–2 but lost two straight to division foes: to the Cowboys 33–20 at home, and to the Philadelphia Eagles on the road, putting the Giants in second place in the NFC East at 6–4. In first place was the Eagles, but at December 19 the two teams tied at 8–4, setting up a match for first place.
The Giants won 3–0 after a 3-run home run by Conor Gillaspie in the top of the ninth inning as Madison Bumgarner pitched a complete-game shutout in the Wild Card Game for the second time in three years. The Mets would not return to the postseason again until 2022. To date, this is the last postseason series win by the Giants.
The victory marked the first time the Giants had ever won a postseason Game 7, having previously lost Game 7 of the 1912 World Series, the 1924 World Series, the 1962 World Series, the 1987 National League Championship Series and the 2002 World Series. It was also the second time in three games that the Giants staff had tossed a shutout; the ...