Three world series championships in five seasons WOW!!! One of five teams to have done it and they will accompany other great organizations including the New York Yankees who captured four between 1996-2000 and the Oakland Athletics who won two in the 1970s.. Don't get it twisted the Giants didn't win this world series easy but they proved why Bumgarner deserves to be seen as an elite pitcher. The Kansas City Royals just as the Giants did came in as a wild card team and had their foot on the gas pedal through out the entire postseason. The Royals steamed rolled the Angels and the Orioles to meet up with the Giants who before last night had two championships in five years and wasn't look at to be in the position that they were in. After their opening lost in Game 1 to the Giants the way they did people even myself wrote them off to lose the world series, but the royals had other plans. The Royals came out in game two exactly how the Giants came out in Game 1 with intentions or silencing the talkers and proving the doubters wrong and they did it. Through out this series the Royals played great baseball and pitched well to force a game seven. Their game six outing was a brutal assault on the Giants dismantling their defense and offense beating them 10-0. There's nothing better than having a dramatic game 7 in your own backyard and the Royals definitely created a great script for all of the baseball lovers and sports enthusiasts. The bottom line when it comes down to a game 7 someone will be celebrating and someone will not and unfortunately for the Royals they didn't get the opportunity to celebrate on their home field.
Giants come in many forms, whether helping others in their time of need, in fairy tales, grocery stores lol but their are many types of Giants. In October a Giant came in the form of a MLB baseball team from the west coast and that's San Francisco to be exact. Pushing their way up the ranks in the postseason as a wild card team to find themselves in the 2014 World Series against the AL Champs the Kansas Royals. The Giants charged out in game 1 with a full head of steam in KC and took game 1 convincingly. Just as any championship series goes you will experience some rough times as the Giants experienced in the world series against the Royals, but the key is how do you recover. The Giants had no choice but to recover and put their best foot forward after allowing the Royals to tie the series 3-3 with a devastating lost in KC forcing a game 7. I will give you two names that sealed the deal for the Giants in my mind, and that's Madison Bumgarner and Pablo Sandoval. Madison Bumgarner a BEASTTTTT came in as a relief in the fifth inning and pitched an amazing game. Even though Bumgarner on paper was given the save for the the Giants game 7 victory, everyone who watched last nights game knows he won that game. Bumgarner finished the last five innings with 4 Ks, 2 Hs and no runs scored. Bumgarners world series stats are as follows and that's all three world series I might add, 4 wins, 0 losses, 1 save, 31Ks, 0.25 ERA, 0.53 WHIP percentage and a .121 BAA. Ok the chant can continue now M V P, M V P, M V P! Mr. Pablo Sandoval, along side Bumgarner played an amazing game also. Sandoval went 3-3 with 2 runs what a way to hit the free agent market soon. Sandoval added to his game 7 heroics by catching the final pop fly out to seal the deal for the Giants and Bumgarner.
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