SF Giants win pennant on Travis Ishikawa’s walkoff homer

[yuiyoshida]

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Source: SFGATE



The 2014 Giants fell out of first place with a tremendous early-summer thud. They fell out of the top wild-card spot with a tepid late summer. They kept tumbling until it was time to rise, dust themselves off and become the last National League club standing.



Mobbing was more like it, after the Giants captured their third pennant in five seasons in the most thrilling way possible Thursday night.

After Michael Morse so improbably tied Game 5 of the National League Championship Series with an eighth-inning homer off Pat Neshek, Travis Ishikawa hit a three-run homer off Michael Wacha with one out in the ninth for a 6-3 win that sent AT&T Park into a state of delirium, and the Giants to the World Series.

The Giants won their seventh pennant in San Francisco and 21st in franchise history with, of all things, the long ball.

Read more: http://blog.sfgate.com/giants/2014/10/16/sf-giants-win-pennant-on-travis-ishikawas-walkoff-homer/

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HOW sweet it is

[TDale313]

1. Perfect way for them to move on.

Let's go, Giants!!!

[BuddhaGirl]

2. an awesome, dramatic finish

GO GIANTS!!

[deurbano]

3. YAY!

Not really a sports fan, but I live in San Francisco, so.

[yuiyoshida]

5. oh yeah!!!!

[yuiyoshida]

21. can't wait for something like this again ,...

[big_dog]

39. congrats Giants, now welcome to the World Series! beware of SungWoo in Game 1...

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Filmmaker says SungWoo Lee will return to KC for the World Series

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/ball-star/article2922076.html#storylink=cpy

[Brother Buzz]

41. Tit for tat, smart money says Wavy Gravy will make an appearance in San Francisco

[big_dog]

42. this is going to be a great series, one of the best playoffs in history!

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Fun Fact: The last time @Koreanfan_KC was in Kansas City, we swept the Giants. #BringBackSungWoo

[Brother Buzz]

43. I agree. Fun Fact: The last time Wavy Gravy was in Kansas City the republicans lost the White House

I was at the 1976 Republican Convention in Kansas City. I was running 'Nobody for President' at the time. I printed up these press releases and handed them out to the crowd at the Kemper Arena. 'Nobody keeps campaign promises.' 'Nobody lowers your taxes.' 'Nobody should have that much power.' 'Nobody is in Washington working for you.' - Wavy Gravy

[big_dog]

44. LOLZ touche, ther is no way to top that!

except SUN WOO thowing the first pich!!

[Tikki]

4. And they started as a Wild Card....Congratulations GIANTS..awesome win....

On to World Series victory.

Tikki

[yuiyoshida]

6. Right now Tony Bennett is singing

I left my heart in San Francisco, at AT&T Park.... and I am weeping like a kid.

[montana_hazeleyes]

8. Hug for you my fellow Giants Fan,

[olddad56]

11. both teams in the World Series started as wild card teams....

KC has set a post season record for winning 8 straight in the post season. Giants were the visiting team in the wild card game and won 8-0. Both teams beat the team in their respective league that finished with the best record during the regular season. Both teams win games in exciting, dramatic fashion.

Both teams are awesome.

That being said, I have been Giant fan since I was old enough to follow baseball. Maybe because I live 90 miles from SF, but more likely because my dearly departed mother was a Giant fan before they moved west from New York. I saw my first Giants game in 1958 in Seals Stadium while Candlestick was being built.

I love the Giants and I respect the KC Royals, they are a great ball club. Both teams get the most out of what they have to work with.

So, lets get it on and may the best team win. The real winner are the fans. I love baseball.

[yuiyoshida]

13. YES BUT WHO CAN DO THIS...BEST?

hINT: HE'S called a BUM!

[longship]

27. And only a Budweiser drinker would do something so stupid.

Lots of bubbles; no beer. Might as well pour it all over yourself.



Okay. Go Giants.


My poor Tigers did not make it again. Then there's the Cubbies...

[montana_hazeleyes]

7. Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They never give up!!!!!! What a series! What a game! What an ending!

[yuiyoshida]

36. and they are a mess... lol!

[StevieM]

9. Travis Ishikawa in the NLCS: 7 RBIs, 1R, 1 HR, .385 AVG, .429 OBP, .769 SLG

Bumgarner was great, but you could make a strong argument that Ishikawa deserved to be the MVP.

[Cha]

10. Good on the Giants, yuiyoshida!

[yuiyoshida]

38. amazing pic...

[Cha]

46. Mahalo :)

[Purveyor]

12. KC is going to kick their asses in 5. Just saying...

[yuiyoshida]

14. I will say this again.....The Giants love the Underdog role

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When they were playing Pittsburgh Pirates in the WILD CARD GAME, everyone said the Giants would lose... when The San Francisco Giants played the Washington Nationals, EVERYONE was saying the Giants would be eliminated, when they played the Cardinals, they said the giants were DONE FOR... bring on the KC Royals, and Yes we'll be underdogs again.

[NBachers]

15. What a game, what a series!

I had friends who were carping about the Giants earlier this season. I told them the Giants were going to surprise them.

Car horns, sirens, and helicopters in my Mission neighborhood. This time, I'm staying home.

I absolutely love Tony Bennett at these games. What a treasure!

We'll see what the future brings . . .

And here's to Democratic Underground's biggest Giant's fan -

[AsahinaKimi]

16. Ishikawa is SUBARASHII...FANTASTIC

LOVED this game!!!

[yuiyoshida]

18. OH YEAH!

[C Moon]

17. Cool!!!

My favorite U.S. city!

[davidpdx]

19. It's great to hear the Giants won

I am an A's/Giants fan for baseball and Niners/Raiders fan for football having been born in the Bay Area.

KC is going to be hard to beat through. While I don't follow baseball carefully, I've heard plenty of people talking about the Royals and what a great team they are this year. It's going to be a tough series for the Giants.

[yuiyoshida]

23. The Giants love the Underdog role

When they were playing Pittsburgh Pirates in the WILD CARD GAME, everyone said the Giants would lose... when The San Francisco Giants played the Washington Nationals, EVERYONE was saying the Giants would be eliminated, when they played the Cardinals, they said the giants were DONE FOR... bring on the KC Royals, and Yes we'll be underdogs again.

[joshcryer]

20. This is going to be a crazy World Series.

Holy crap.

[yuiyoshida]

24. IT WOULD BE CRAZIER IF

The Crazy crab came back.....



But Giants fans know, that Lou Seal Ate him!!!!

[sakabatou]

22. Hey Royals, guess what?

[Xithras]

37. Ewwww!

Why the Osama Bin Wilson reference?

[sakabatou]

40. That... was very poor taste of words.

[Xithras]

45. Lol, it's an old joke.

People have been calling Brian Wilson that for years...even before he donned Dodger blue.

[KeepItReal]

25. That's what's up!!

Great day in the Bay!!

[yuiyoshida]

26. Travis sez...

[rurallib]

28. Somehow I knew that you would have a post on this when I woke up today

call me psychic

Can you survive another Series like that?

[yuiyoshida]

29. You know there was a Twitter hashtag

called Giants Torture and many people have mentioned it all the way back when the Pirates played the Giants in the Wild Card game. I am not sure what we can survive.. but it happened once in 2010 and 2012 so I guess we shall see. I never think that Giants fans should ever get cocky and we won't, but we have been counted out over and over again, and these guys are just amazing, especially guys like Ishikawa and others who started the year down in triple A Fresno.

[rurallib]

30. Something that a Cub fan may never know

[yuiyoshida]

31. Everyone loves the cubs...

I think if they made the playoffs, there would be far more fans coming out than any Yankee team could ever dream of!

[CANDO]

32. As a Yankees fan....

I have to root for the Royals because they're in the AL. I can't stand the NL with pitchers representing almost always an automatic out when batting. Beyond all that, SF has won it most recently, so I like to root for the underdog also, even if they were an NL team. Good luck to both teams, and may it be a 7 game nail biter.

[yuiyoshida]

33. Michael Morse (who tied the game with a HR ) will be in the DH spot in Kansas City

According to Jon Miller from KNBR..

[Gamecock Lefty]

34. From St Louis - Thank You, Giants!!!

I live in STL now (transplanted from SC) and was quite delirious to see the Giants win! The silence among these Cardinal fans, the self-anointed ‘best fans in baseball,’ is deafening. Priceless!

[yuiyoshida]

35. I was reading the Tweets about Watcha on Twitter..

Most of the fans were kind to him despite he threw the HR ball but most blame Mike Matheny and some have even called for him to be fired. Hey,, Matheny got them there.. that is quite an accomplishment.

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Watcha&src=typd

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Matheny&src=typd

[flying rabbit]

47. Congrats!

But KC FTW!

[yuiyoshida]

48. You will be happy to know your Royals are favored....

But the Giants love being the underdogs, they have been so, since the wild card one game play offs.

[flying rabbit]

49. To a good series