Giants Beat Royals in Game 7 to Win Title

[iandhr]

Source: ny times

The San Francisco Giants won their third championship in five years with a 3-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals in the deciding Game 7 of the World Series on Wednesday.

Madison Bumgarner was the star of the Series for the Giants. After allowing just one run in 16 innings in two winning starts in the Series, he turned in another outstanding performance in Game 7, this time in relief.

Pitching on just two days’ rest, in the unfamiliar role of reliever, Bumgarner pitched the game’s final five innings, giving up two hits and no runs.

The Giants loaded the bases against Jeremy Guthrie, the Royals’ starter, with nobody out in the second inning. Back-to-back sacrifice flies gave them a 2-0 lead.




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[c588415]

1. KC who? way to go Giants!

[yuiyoshida]

2. Beautiful

[davidpdx]

19. I had to work this morning

but was checking in on the score every time I got down to the office for a break. It was about 1 o'clock here in Korea when I finished and had saw the headline. So glad they won.

[still_one]

3. Right down to the wire

[montana_hazeleyes]

4. Yaaaaaaaaay!

Giants never give up. They showed everyone who doubted them.

[LibDemAlways]

5. A nail biter there at the end. Bumgarner is amazing.

[Iamthetruth]

24. From Hickory NC

About as small town as it gets.

[NBachers]

6. Oh, man- right down to the last pitch of the last inning of game 7.

Whoever won this series, the fans of both teams got their money's worth. What a series! That catch by Sandoval is priceless.

It's chaos right outside my Mission District apartment. I think I'll head on down to Mission Street and see what's happenin'.

I tip my hat to the Kansas City Royals. What a World Series!

[C Moon]

7. Woo hoo!

[c588415]

8. Madison Bumgarner slapped some"Royal" ass !

3 world series wins in 5yrs. The Giants rule !

[olddad56]

27. I wouldn't get so cocky...

I'm a Giants fan and I'm really happy that the Giants won. But give KC its due, they were a good ball club that ran into a one man buzz saw. Madison Bumgarner was phenomenal. But if you take him out of the rotation and look at the other starters, they were absolutely terrible. With the expectation of Bumgarner, that had to have been the worst starting rotation to ever win a World Series. Bumgarner won 3 of the games and Petit won the other. The other three combined for zero wins in 5 starts. I hope that those three starters are all gone next year, along with Homer Strickland and Kerosene Jean Machi.

[KamaAina]

33. Actually Affeldt was the winner last night

which leaves MadBum in the (I believe) historic position of having two wins AND a save in a single Series.

[KamaAina]

37. But don't forget, Cain will be back

That's two strong Southern hosses right there.

edit: and of course, Peavy is always, always good in the regular season. As George Steinbrenner once described Dave Winfield, he's "Mr. May".

[c588415]

38. if you were a true GIANTS fan, you would be cocky, too. I know

that you are a disgruntled KC fan; I wont laugh at you .
With that said, the sports media tried to convince us all that it was a slam-dunk for KC to win the world series. In fact while the Giants battled ST Luis, I heard a commentator from ESPN assert that neither the Giant nor St Luis were even worthy enough to play KC, and that pissed me off. So excuse me for gloating over Mad Bum, and my Giants.

Best of luck to your Cinderella KC Royals next year....aah ha ha ha

[DallasNE]

9. Bumgarner Series ERA Is Miniscule 0.428571 n/t

[Lulu KC]

10. Not so happy here in Kansas City

[StevieM]

12. I was really rooting for the Royals. They came so close. I think Ned Yost made some serious mistakes

For starters, I don't know why he shut down the Royals running game. If Infante had stolen 2nd, then Escobar's bunt would have moved him to third with one out and he could have tagged and scored on Aoki fly ball.

I also don't know why he didn't go to Herrera sooner in the 4th inning. In fact, if he was going to pitch Herrera for 3 innings, Davis for 2 and Holland for 2-3, then maybe he should have just started the game with them and then gone to James Shields to finish it.

[olddad56]

28. it is always easy to second guess the manager,

I second guess Bochy all of the time. But KC was a hell of a ball club and Yost got the most out of them. They ran into a buzz saw in Bumgarner, the Giants bullpen pitched well and in last nights game, and so did KC's. The Giants made that one run lead hold up. Last night, the ball bounced the Giants way. That is baseball.

[KamaAina]

34. Shoo-in for AL Manager of the Year

[StevieM]

36. Actually, Buck Showalter is the overwhelming favorite to win the Manager of the Year award.

The votes are already in. They vote at the end of the regular season, before the postseason begins.

Also, just as the Giants seem to always win in even numbered years, so to does Showalter consistently win the Manager of the Year award every 10 years in years ending with the number 4. He won in 1994, he won in 2004 and he is expected to win in 2014.

Matt Williams of the Nationals is the favorite to win it in the National League. Which is kind of ironic given the bad job he did in the NLDS.

[yuiyoshida]

15. Hey Kansas City really battled hard...

That 10-0 blowout the night before, scared many people in the Bay Area, but people kept saying trust in Bochy, Trust in Bochy... so we did.. It was an awesome series, and KC fans represented their team well..

[big_dog]

26. so close, yet so far...(about 90 feet in the 9th inning to be exact)

see ya next year GIANTS!

[KamaAina]

32. The shirts are going to be shipped off to Third World countries like Haiti

that's what happens to that stuff, which is always made for both teams so the ones for the winning team are ready to ship immediately. Don't know about the other swag.

[hvn_nbr_2]

22. Your Royals had a magnificent last month

The way the Royals finished the regular season and went thru the playoffs is plenty of reason for pride. (And that's coming from a Giants fan.) They had the misfortune of running into Madison Buzzsaw.

[KamaAina]

35. If only they hadn't fscked it up for the A's

[Gormy Cuss]

23. But it was a great game and a great series.

Both teams did well -- it was so close to ending in the Royals favor. Maybe next year for them.

[KamaAina]

31. Well, it is an odd-numbered year

so the field is wide open.

[C Moon]

11. Yay!

[vlakitti]

13. Can you repeat this?

Yay and yay and yay!

Good for SF and the Bay Area.

[C Moon]

14. :D

[pstokely]

16. Will Roberts and Brownback lose also?

Although the Royals (and Chiefs) play in Missouri
http://www.kshb.com/sports/baseball/royals/study-predicts-royals-boost-to-midterm-incumbents

[davidpdx]

18. I remember seeing that posted on DU the other day

Glad someone brought that up. I guess we'll see.

[corkhead]

20. Nice of the Royals to make that sacrifice for the good of the country

[FailureToCommunicate]

17. Not happy about the first ever (off site) review of out at first. Three minute delay, and 'what

might have been' for the Royals.

**sigh**

(As a Red Sox fan, I'm used to disappointment. So, I'll be okay)

[Brother Buzz]

21. Yogi Berra likes it

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

25. I missed the end of the game. I couldn't watch it. I wanted to see the final pitch and

the reaction.

If anyone has a link and would like to share, I'd be most grateful.

[KamaAina]

29. I couldn't get away from it

some dude down the block had the play-by-play cranked up so loud you could have heard it in KC that last half-inning. If Gordon had scored on the muffed hit (most observers believe Crawford would have gunned him down), I'd be posting this from jail!

[KamaAina]

30. Two Missouri teams down. None left!

Guess we, uh, showed them.