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The club ended its title-winning drought in 2010, as they beat the Texas Rangers 4–1 to bring the Commissioner's Trophy to San Francisco for the first time in the city's history. [5] The Giants won their second title in San Francisco in 2012, sweeping the Detroit Tigers, [6] and won again for the third time in five years in 2014, defeating ...
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]
The Giants originated in New York City as the New York Gothams in 1883, and were known as the New York Giants from 1885 until the team relocated to San Francisco after the 1957 season. During most of their 75 seasons in New York City, the Giants played home games at various incarnations of the Polo Grounds in Upper Manhattan .
San Francisco finished the season with an 86–76 record in second place in the NL West, eight games behind the division-winning Arizona Diamondbacks. [ 41 ] The Giants started the 2012 season playing barely above .500, trailing the Los Angeles Dodgers for most of the first half of the season.
November 17, 1992: Steve Decker was drafted by the Florida Marlins from the San Francisco Giants as the 35th pick in the 1992 expansion draft. [7] December 8, 1992: Barry Bonds signed as a free agent with the San Francisco Giants. [8] December 10, 1992: Jim Pena was traded by the San Francisco Giants to the San Diego Padres for Paul Faries. [9]
Brian Wilson then retired the side in order in the ninth for the Series-winning save and first-time baseball world championships not just for the Giants (for the first time in 56 years) but for San Francisco, [34] since the Giants' five other world championships were won in New York (in 1905, 1921, 1922, 1933 and 1954).
The 1991 San Francisco Giants season was the Giants' 109th season in Major League Baseball, their 34th season in San Francisco since their move from New York following the 1957 season, and their 32nd at Candlestick Park. The team finished in fourth place in the National League West with a 75–87 record, 19 games behind the Atlanta Braves.
May 29, 2012 – Melky Cabrera sets a new San Francisco Giants record with 50 hits in the month of May. He would finish the month with 51 hits, tying Randy Winn for the Giants' San Francisco record for most hits in any month. June 5, 2012 – Freddy Sanchez has back surgery, ending his attempts to come back from a season-ending injury in June 2011.