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The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason. First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
The Giants won three World Series championships in 2010, 2012, and 2014, giving the team eight total World Series titles, including the five won as the New York Giants. Players inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum as members of the San Francisco Giants include CF Willie Mays , 1B Orlando Cepeda , P Juan Marichal , 1B ...
They went on to lose in the World Series to the Yankees. A 4–0 series sweep of the Cleveland Indians in the 1954 World Series earned the Giants their fifth title. Until 2010, the Giants were without a title since relocation to San Francisco — at the time this was the third-longest World Series winning drought in the league. [5]
The Bay Area is home of a Major League Baseball team, the San Francisco Giants who play at Oracle Park [10] and have won eight World Series titles (three as the San Francisco Giants (2010, 2012, and 2014) and five as the New York Giants).
The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise based in San Francisco, California. 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 ...
This was the third all-California matchup in the World Series, and the only one to feature two teams from the San Francisco Bay Area. This was also the fourth World Series meeting between the Athletics and Giants ( 1905 , 1911 , 1913 ), dating back to when both teams were in Philadelphia and New York City respectively.
In the U.S., Game 5 of the World Series drew an average 18.6 million viewers across Fox, Fox Deportes and Fox's streaming services, the network announced, making it the most-watched Game 5 on Fox ...
The 1989 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1989 season.The 86th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion Oakland Athletics and the National League (NL) champion San Francisco Giants.