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• 5 records set Thursday by the Giants
  From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
  While San Francisco fans were celebrating the Giants' third World Series appearance in five seasons, baseball stat geeks were crunching the numbers. Here's a rundown of...
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• Stark: New script for Giants, Ishikawa
  From the Web › ESPN
  The Giants saved their most surprising way to win for NLCS Game 5 walk-off
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• Giants-Royals: A capsule look at World Series
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  A look at the best-of-seven World Series between the San Francisco Giants and Kansas City Royals:
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• How the San Francisco Giants got to the World Series
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  If you think getting to the World Series is becoming old hat for the San Francisco Giants, think again. Though this will mark the franchise's third trip to the Fall...
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• World Series: Seasoned Giants vs fresh Royals
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  Alex Gordon, Lorenzo Cain and the go-go-go Kansas City Royals played perfect ball to zip through the playoffs. Plus, they recently flattened Buster Posey and his...
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• Giants: Fan who caught Ishikawa's homer enjoys his '15 minutes of fame'
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  San Francisco Giants fan Frank Burke wound up with an Ishikawa-autographed bat -- hand-delivered with a personal thank you from the October hero himself.
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• Giants announce death of longtime scout
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  SAN FRANCISCO -- The World Series-bound San Francisco Giants say longtime major league scout Stan Saleski has died. He was 59.
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• Giants have every-other-October pattern down pat
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  SAN FRANCISCO -- There's a tune Tim Flannery once sung that he finds perfectly fitting to describe how his San Francisco Giants get the most out of themselves in the...
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• Scouts' honor: Homegrown talent key to Giants' success
  From the Web › MLB.com
  A look at the principals in the Giants' victory that sealed their National League Championship Series triumph demonstrates how the franchise's farm system has become its...
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• San Francisco Giants: Posey Becoming Face of Playoffs
  From the Web › AOL On
  Sports Illustrated - Sports Illustrated's Ted Keith and Stephen Cannella discuss if Buster Posey's play in October is enough to make him the face of MLB and the...
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• Vegas undecided on World Series, sets MVP odds
  From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
  It's the Royals and the Giants in an improbable World Series matchup. Las Vegas oddsmakers are expecting big things from Buster Posey.
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• Out of left field, this time it's Ishikawa
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Before Travis Ishikawa hooked on with the Giants earlier this summer, he spent time mulling retirement, having been set free by the Pirates. Then injuries happened...
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• Who Pitches for the Giants After Bumgarner?
  From the Web › AOL On
  Sports Illustrated - Sports Illustrated's Ted Keith and Stephen Cannella discuss the San Francisco Giants pitching rotation and who will likely get the start after ace...
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• World Series tickets: pricey in S.F., astronomical in K.C.
  From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
  Surprise, surprise: Tickets to witness the Giants' third World Series trip in five seasons won't come cheap. But passes to the games at AT&T Park are looking like a...
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• Brandon Crawford a most indispensable Giant
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  San Francisco Giants' shortstop Brandon Crawford has grown into a player that manager Bruce Bochy absolutely can't leave off his lineup card
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• World Series first look: Royals, Giants an odd couple
  From the Web › USA Today
  They didn't win 90 games, but both the Royals and Giants made the World Series       
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• Braves boast connections to both World Series teams
  From the Web › MLB.com
  At some point within the next two weeks, either the Royals or Giants will clinch the World Series with what will be their 12th postseason win this year. When this...
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• Bochy once again pulling all the right strings
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Jake Peavy has witnessed Bruce Bochy manage since he was a 20-year-old pitcher just emerging with the Padres. Bochy is in his 20th season managing, 12 with the Padres...
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• Giants scout Saleski passes way
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Longtime Major League Baseball scout Stan Saleski died unexpectedly last Saturday in Baltimore, the Giants announced Friday.
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• Giants express 'deep sadness' over passing of scout Saleski
  From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
  The Giants expressed their deepest condolences following the unexpected passing of former Major League scout Stan Saleski.
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• Henry Schulman: Random thoughts and notes on SF Giants the day after
  From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
  I want to thank Jake Peavy for the lede to my game story from the pennant clincher. May you never fully correct your vision. If you haven't read John Shea's...
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• Statcast: Deflected grounder propels Giants
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Travis Ishikawa's walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth on Thursday night to clinch the National League pennant for the Giants will be the play everyone is...
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• Keep on chugging: MadBum up to 6-pack
  From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
  When Giants ace Madison Bumgarner chugged five beers last week after the team's National League Division Series clinching win, we wondered how many beers he would take...
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• Matt Cain watches Giants win pennant without two key players. "The guys just ran with it."
  From the Web › The Mercury News
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• Nothing has come easy for 2014 Giants
  From the Web › MLB.com
  The Giants' ability to overcome injuries and a couple of rough stretches has made their third NL pennant in the past five years all the more sweet.
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• Mashup: Ishikawa blast and 'Shot Heard 'Round the World'
  From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
  Travis Ishikawa, no longer the forgotten man from the Giants' 2010 championship team, hit an improbable walk-off homer to send San Francisco back to the World Series...
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• The World Series Earthquake: 1989
  From the Web › ESPN
  On Oct. 17, 1989, the Loma Prieta earthquake struck the Bay Area and disrupted the World Series between the Giants and the A's for 10 days. A retrospective look on the...
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• A man paid to write about sports for a living calls the Giants "boring"
  From the Web › HardballTalk
  Well, that's certainly an opinion to have.
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• HBT Daily: The Giants, a dynasty for non-dynastic times
  From the Web › HardballTalk
  It's only '04, but is it too early to call the Giants The Team of the Decade?
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• Delirious Jake Peavy nearly turned Travis Ishikawa's homer into double
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  Delirious with World Series joy, half-blind without his glasses and apparently still doped-up from an emergency trip to the dentist, Jake Peavy of the San Francisco...
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• MLB Notebook: Ishikawa joins LCS icons
  From the Web › MLB.com
  With his walk-off shot in the ninth inning Thursday, the Giants' Travis Ishikawa joined Chris Chambliss, Aaron Boone and Magglio Ordonez as the fourth player to hit a...
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• Giants "We Own the Pennant" T-Shirts Flying Off Shelves
  From the Web › NBC
  Get yours while you still can."We Own the Pennant" t-shirts were flying off store shelves within minutes of the San Francisco Giants winning the NL...
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• AT&T Park's Gotham Club is ridiculous
  From the Web › HardballTalk
  The Giants' ballpark is home to one of the fanciest private clubs in the majors.
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• Video: Hunter Pence's speech in the Giants locker room after NLCS win
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  The San Francisco Giants' Hunter Pence gave another post-game locker room speech. See what he said about teammates and Travis Ishikawa's three-run homer in the bottom of...
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• One victim injured after brawl near AT&T park Thursday night
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  San Francisco police responded to a brawl near AT&T Park that left one victim injured Thursday night.
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• Fight breaks out near AT&T Park after Giants game
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco police say a person suffered a broken nose and a gunshot went off during a fight near AT&T Park after the Giants' victory.
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• Rewind: Giants, Ishikawa suspend belief in pennant-clinching win
  From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
  After 13 seasons of trying to find his place, Travis Ishikawa put his name in the history books and lifted the Giants back to the World Series.
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• The three unlikely heroes who sent the Giants back to the World Series
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  SAN FRANCISCO — One of the many fans filing out of their seats after the San Francisco Giants clinched a trip to the World Series bellowed, "Travis Ishikawa is the...
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• The Royals and Giants are in the World Series and it'll probably be wild
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  The Kansas City Royals have swept their way through the postseason after earning an American League wild-card spot, knocking off the two top teams in the AL in their...
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• Travis Ishikawa's walk-off homer mashed with call from 'Shot Heard 'Round The World' (Video)
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  In an equal parts stunning and exhilarating development , unlikely hero Travis Ishikawa catapulted the San Francisco Giants to their 23rd National League pennant in...
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• So, if you're not a fan of the Royals or Giants, who ya got?
  From the Web › HardballTalk
  A handy checklist to help you decide who to root for in the Fall Classic
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• Crawford brings the defense, comic relief for Giants
  From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
  Brandon Crawford delivered one of the most clutch plays of the night, shortly after playing a practical joke on a teammate to lighten the mood.
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• Thursday's Sports In Brief
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  SAN FRANCISCO -- Travis Ishikawa hit the first homer to end an NL Championship Series, a three-run drive that sent San Francisco to a 6-3 victory over the St. Louis...
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• In winning pennant, Giants finally find their long game
  From the Web › USA Today
  When the home runs finally came for the Giants, they arrived in a bunch       
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• Giants walk off into another World Series
  From the Web › USA Today
  It's another NL pennant for the Giants       
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• Blanco 'really stepped up big' for Giants
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Once upon a time, in mid-September, Angel Pagan's surgery for a bulging disk in his back was supposed to be the death knell for the 2014 San Francisco Giants. Gregor...
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• Giants know they'll have battle facing Royals
  From the Web › MLB.com
  The Giants are trying to win the World Series for the third time in five seasons. The Royals are trying to do it for the first time in 29 years, and only the second time...
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• Bochy trusts instincts, pushes right buttons
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Once again, everything manager Bruce Bochy touched in Game 5 of the National League Championship Series turned to gold for his Giants on Thursday night at rollicking...
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• Giants built a dynasty by keeping their core intact
  From the Web › MLB.com
  The Giants' unparalleled success over the last half-decade can be credited in large part to a core of players -- Buster Posey, Pablo Sandoval and Madison Bumgarner, to...
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• NLCS MVP Bumgarner 'excited to be moving on'
  From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
  Madison Bumgarner wasn't overpowering on Thursday, but he kept the Giants close enough so that they could win the NLCS in dramatic fashion.
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• Pence rallies World Series bound Giants with postgame speech
  From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
  Hunter Pence, the club's vocal leader, delivered a passionate post-game speech in the locker room following the Giants' Game 5 win over the Cardinals.
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• Hunter Pence gives Giants another awesome victory speech (Video)
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  SAN FRANCISCO — Hunter Pence is the emotional center of the San Francisco Giants — well, after Thursday night, make that National League champion San...
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• Walk-off homer leaves Giants dry heaving, and celebrating, their World Series return (Yahoo Sports)
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  The Giants' cast of characters reached their third World Series in five years after another thrilling victory.
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• MadBum adds NLCS MVP to postseason legacy
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Madison Bumgarner helped pitch the Giants to their third World Series berth in five seasons, and for his ace performance, the left-hander was named the National League...
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• NLCS can't get any better -- until it does
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Like the Giants, the Cardinals were a team that had trouble making the pieces fit in a rollercoaster of a season. Like the Giants, the Cardinals kept pushing and...
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• Giants' unsung heroes go on power trip at right time
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Those same Giants who had hit only two home runs combined in their nine previous games this postseason simply overpowered the Cardinals in a victory that allowed them to...
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• Ishikawa becomes postseason's latest unlikely hero
  From the Web › MLB.com
  By hitting a walk-off homer to send the Giants to the World Series on Thursday night in San Francisco, Travis Ishikawa became the latest unlikely hero to buoy his club...
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• What they're saying: Giants advance to World Series
  From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
  The Giants walked off vs. the Cardinals in Game 5 of the NLCS, advancing to the World Series, and Twitter exploded with joy.
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• The Giants celebrated winning NL pennant by spraying alcohol everywhere
  From the Web › USA Today
  There was a lot of alcohol flowing.       
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• The Giants don't think it was luck that got them to the World Series
  From the Web › USA Today
  "At the end of the day, whoever wins the battle won," said outfielder Hunter Pence.       
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• From wild cards to World Series, Giants, Royals endured
  From the Web › USA Today
  The World Series could be a matchup between two wild card teams.       
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• 5 things we learned from the Giants' walk-off win to go to the World Series
  From the Web › USA Today
  The Giants hit a couple of huge home runs late to beat the Cardinals in the NLCS.       
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• Giants win NL pennant for third time in five seasons
  From the Web › USA Today
  Ishikawa's 3-run HR in the 9th inning sent San Francisco to the World Series.       
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• Giants continue Oct. magic with dramatic walk-off win
  From the Web › USA Today
  It's another NL pennant for the Giants       
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• Madison Bumgarner celebrates NLCS MVP award, NL pennant with six beers
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  SAN FRANCISCO — By now, you may know about Madison Bumgarner's playoff beer celebrations. They're both a social-media phenomenon and a San Francisco Giants...
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• Giants' celebration extra special for first-timers
  From the Web › MLB.com
  After about five minutes of raucous celebration, the Giants' clubhouse fell silent. Off went the music. The victorious screams stopped. So did the jumping up and down...
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• Panik's arrival major reason for Giants' success
  From the Web › MLB.com
  The amazing ride of rookie second baseman Joe Panik began in June at Chase Field with his mother, father and girlfriend in the stands to watch his first start for the...
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• Ishikawa joins rare company with walk-off homer
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Giants left fielder Travis Ishikawa became just the ninth player in history to end a postseason series with a home run on Thursday night. He also became part of an even...
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• Giants, Royals make for Wild World Series
  From the Web › MLB.com
  The Royals and Giants, who will meet in the World Series, are proof that it's possible to get on a roll once you survive the Wild Card Game.
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• Wild Card Giants refuse to quit until job complete
  From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
  After Travis Ishikawa's pennant-winning home run on Thursday night, general manager Brian Sabean had two words to sum up the 2014 Giants.
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• Bumgarner sticks with it, pushes Giants toward pennant
  From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
  Madison Bumgarner was not perfect Thursday. Far from it. The Cardinals made him look mortal, puncturing his postseason aura with three runs before the fourth inning...
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• Video: Giants' Madison Bumgarner's latest beer-soaked locker room celebration
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  Another win, another celebratory beer bath from San Francisco Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner, in this Vine video by the Merc's Alex Pavlovic.
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• Morse's home run sets stage for Giants
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  Michael Morse hits his first home run since Aug. 15 to tie the score and set the stage for the San Francisco Giants' win over the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 5 of the...
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• Kawakami: Put Travis Ishikawa among San Francisco Giants' legendary heroes
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  Ishikawa's walk-off homer against the St. Louis Cardinals in the NLCS to clinch a return to the World Series ranks among the biggest moments in the franchise's...
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• Giants' Affeldt raises his game as stakes rise
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  Jeremy Affeldt comes up big again in postseason for San Francisco Giants
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• San Francisco Giants headed to baseball World Series again (AFP)
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  San Francisco (AFP) - Travis Ishikawa's walk-off ninth-inning blast lifted the San Francisco Giants to a 6-3 win over St. Louis and into baseball's World...
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• Cardinals-Giants, NLCS Game 5: Did you know?
  From the Web › MLB.com
  For the second time in three games in the NLCS, San Francisco walked off with a win over St. Louis. This time, Travis Ishikawa's three-run homer in the ninth inning...
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• Official World Series gear unveiled, available
  From the Web › MLB.com
  The Giants will meet the Royals in the World Series starting Tuesday night at Kauffman Stadium, and that thrilling experience of the Fall Classic is already underway...
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• Bumgarner earns well-deserved NLCS MVP honors
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Madison Bumgarner helped pitch the Giants to their third World Series berth in five seasons, and for his ace performance, the left-hander was named the National League...
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• Oct. 16 Bumgarner postgame interview
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Q. Tell me about the competition tonight, you and Wainwright going man‑to‑man. MADISON BUMGARNER:  You know, we knew it was going to be a dogfight...
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