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The 2013 San Francisco Giants season was the Giants' 131st year in Major League Baseball, their 56th year in San Francisco since their move from New York following the 1957 season, and their 14th at AT&T Park. They entered the season as the defending World Series Champions.
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 2013 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2013 season. [1] The 109th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League (AL) champion Boston Red Sox and the National League (NL) champion St. Louis Cardinals; the Red Sox won, 4 games to 2 to win their eighth championship.
The Giants lost the 1962 World Series in seven games to the New York Yankees. The Giants were swept in the 1989 World Series by their cross-Bay rival Oakland Athletics, a series best known for the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, which caused a 10-day delay between Games 2 and 3. [18] The Giants also lost the 2002 World Series to the Anaheim Angels.
The San Francisco Giants wore special uniforms to commemorate their 2012 World Series win on April 7. Similar to their commemoration of their 2010 World Series championship, the jerseys, instead of bearing the familiar "GIANTS" across the chest, displayed the interlocking "SF" logo on the front of the jersey's left side in gold. The Giants also ...
The Giants finished a 4–0 sweep over the Detroit Tigers in the World Series. [48] Pablo Sandoval, who hit home runs in his first three at-bats in Game 1, and had a .500 average in the World Series, was named the World Series MVP. [49] [50] Early in 2013, the Giants were in first place in the NL West. However, in May, the Giants began a slide ...
Lincecum pitching in Game 1 of the 2010 World Series Lincecum in the 2010 World Series parade. On November 1 at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, with the Giants leading the Series three games to one, Lincecum started and was the winning pitcher in the clinching Game 5. He struck out a franchise World Series record 10 batters in eight innings ...
Williams played in a World Series for each of the teams he played for (1989 with the Giants, 1997 with the Indians, and 2001 with the Diamondbacks in which he won over the New York Yankees). During these years, Williams became the only player to hit at least one World Series home run for three different Major League baseball teams. [ 2 ]