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2013 →. The San Francisco Giants are an American baseball team. Their 2012 season marked their 130th year in Major League Baseball, as well as their 55th year in San Francisco since their move from New York following the 1957 season, and the 13th at AT&T Park. The Giants finished with a record of 94–68, They finished in first place in the ...
All-Star (2011) Matthew Ryan Joyce[1] (born August 3, 1984) is an American former professional baseball outfielder, who played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Between 2008 and 2021, he played for eight MLB teams, most notably the Tampa Bay Rays, with whom he was named an MLB All-Star in 2011. Raised by a single father in Tampa ...
2013 →. The 2012 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball 's (MLB) 2012 season. [ 1 ] The 108th edition of the World Series, the series was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion San Francisco Giants and the American League (AL) champion Detroit Tigers; the Giants won in a four-game sweep.
The matchups for the 2012 NLDS were: (1) Washington Nationals (East Division champions) vs. (5) St. Louis Cardinals (Wild Card Game winner): Cardinals win series 3–2. (2) Cincinnati Reds (Central Division champions) vs. (3) San Francisco Giants (West Division champions): Giants win series 3–2. Both series saw the first postseason meetings ...
2020 →. The 2019 season was the San Francisco Giants ' 137th year in Major League Baseball and their 62nd year in San Francisco since their move from New York following the 1957 season. It was their 20th season at Oracle Park and the first under that name following the transfer of naming rights from AT&T. [1] This season was the 13th and last ...
In New York, the Giants enjoyed 55 winning seasons, with only 3 losing seasons between 1903 and 1939, a stretch which included two runs of 10 or more straight winning seasons (1903–14 and 1916–1925). In San Francisco the Giants have had 39 winning seasons, including their first fourteen in the city. Their eight World Series titles are tied ...
Kapler started the season platooning in center field with Matt Joyce, in place of Rays' center fielder B. J. Upton, who had offseason surgery on his left shoulder and was not ready for Opening Day. [62] On April 13, Kapler struck out against New York Yankee outfielder Nick Swisher. [39] Kapler then began to platoon in right field with Gabe Gross.
In Game 2, Bronson Arroyo outdueled San Francisco ace Madison Bumgarner as the Reds blew out the Giants by a 9–0 score to take a 2–0 series lead, handing Bumgarner his worst postseason loss ever. When the series moved to Cincinnati, the Giants narrowly prevailed in an extra-inning Game 3 to avoid elimination, then blew out the Reds in Game ...