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SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 2014 GAME INFORMATION 24 Willie Mays Plaza •San Francisco, CA 94107 •Phone: 415-972-2000 sfgiants.com •sfgigantes.com •sfgiantspressbox.com •@SFGiants •@los_gigantes• @SFG_Stats WORLD SERIES - GAME ONE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS AT KANSAS CITY ROYALS LHP Madison Bumgarner (2-1, 1.42) vs. RHP James Shields (1-0, 5.63) Tuesday, October 21, 2014 • Kau man Stadium • 5:07 p.m. (PT) • FOX • ESPN Radio • KNBR 680 • ESPN Deportes 860 AM UPCOMING PROBABLE STARTING PITCHERS & BROADCAST SCHEDULE: • Game Two, Oct. 22 at Kansas City (5:07p.m.): RHP Jake Peavy (1-0, 1.86) vs. RHP Yordano Ventura (0-0, 4.85) - FOX • Game Three, Oct. 24 vs. Kansas City (5:07p.m.): RHP Jeremy Guthrie (0-0, 1.80) vs. RHP Tim Hudson (0-0, 3.29) - FOX • Game Four, Oct. 25 vs. Kansas City (5:07p.m.): LHP Jason Vargas (1-0, 2.38) vs. RHP Ryan Vogelsong (0-0, 5.19) - FOX TONIGHT'S GAME MOST WORLD SERIES GIANTS ALL-TIME • The Giants have advanced to the World Series for the third time APPEARANCES POSTSEASON RECORD in ve seasons, the sixth time in SF-era history (since 1958), Team App and for the 20th time in franchise history...the Giants' 20 World New York Yankees 40 Overall (since 1900) . 92-84-2 Series appearances surpass the St. Louis Cardinals for the most San Francisco Giants 20 SF-era (since 1958) . .53-43 in the NL. St. Louis Cardinals 19 Los Angeles Dodgers 18 In Home Games . .29-18 Oakland A's 14 In Road Games. .24-25 THE GIANTS At AT&T Park . .21-11 • Will be looking to become the second NL team to win three World Series in a ve-year span (Cardinals - 1942, 1944, 1946). GIANTS IN THE WORLD SERIES WINNING WAYS IN POSTSEASON Year Opponent W-L Series • SF has won 15 of their last 17 postseason games, including seven of their last eight on 1905 Philadelphia W 4-1 the road...the Giants have not lost the rst game of a postseason series on the road since 1911 Philadelphia L 2-4 dropping Game One of the Division Series at Florida on Sept. 30, 1997...since then, SF has 1912 Boston L 3-4-1 gone 7-0 in postseason road openers (3-0 this season, including Wild Card game at PIT). 1913 Philadelphia L 1-4 1917 Chicago L 2-4 GIANTS IN THE FALL CLASSIC 1921 New York W 5-3 1922 New York W 4-1-1 • The New York Giants were 5-9 lifetime in 14 appearances in the World Series and the San 1923 New York L 2-4 Francisco Giants have gone 2-3 in ve trips to the Fall Classic...the franchise's 53 World 1924 Washington L 3-4 Series victories are the third-most all-time behind the Yankees (134) and Cardinals (58). 1933 Washington W 4-1 1936 New York L 2-4 GIANTS THIRD IN WORLD SERIES GAMES PLAYED 1937 New York L 1-4 • The Giants will play their 110th World Series game tonight...their 110 WS games are the 1951 New York L 2-4 third-most all-time behind the New York Yankees (225) and the St. Louis Cardinals (118). 1954 Cleveland W 4-0 1962 New York L 3-4 WORLD SERIES OPENERS 1989 Oakland L 0-4 • The Giants are 12-7 in World Series openers, going 5-3 on the road. 2002 Anaheim L 3-4 2010 Texas W 4-1 POSTSEASON SERIES WIN STREAK 2012 Detroit W 4-0 • Not counting the Wild Card game, the Giants have won eight straight postseason series, the longest such streak in NL history and tied with the Yankees (1927-1941) for the second- GIANTS IN THE 2014 POSTSEASON longest streak ever, trailing only the 1998-2001 Yankees, who won 11 straight ( Elias). Games . .10 Record . 8-2 WILD CARD WORLD SERIES Average . .244 (88x361) • The 110th edition of Major League Baseball's championship series will pit two wild-card Avg. w/RISP . .231 (21x91) teams for the second time in baseball history...the Giants lost the other in seven games Runs Per Game . 4.1 (41) in 2002 to the Los Angeles Angels...the following teams have won the World Series as a Home Runs . 5 Wild-Card team: Marlins (1997, 2003), Angels (2002), Red Sox (2004) and Cardinals (2011). Stolen Bases . 3 UNDER 90 WINS ERA . .2.18 (24er, 99.0ip) • The Giants, who had an 88-74 record this regular season, will face the Royals, who posted Starters W-L . 3-1 Elias Starters ERA . .2.40 (17er, 63.2ip) an 89-73 mark this year...according to , the combined regular-season winning per- Relievers W-L. 5-1 centage for the two teams (.546, 177-147) will be the second-lowest for any World Series, Relievers ERA . .1.78 (7er, 35.1ip) only one percentage point higher than the .545 (176-147) mark for the 1973 matchup of Saves/Chances . 5/7 the Oakland A's (94-68) and New York Mets (82-79). GIANTS VS. ROYALS TWO TEAMS WITH LESS THAN 90 REGULAR SEASON WINS • This World Series is the rst in Major League history that two teams, each with fewer than SF vs. KC (since 2003) . 3-9 90 regular season wins, will meet in the Fall Classic, in an uninterrupted (non-strike, non- At Kau! man Stadium . 2-7 war shortened) season. At AT&T Park . 1-2 PABLO'S POSTSEASON ON-BASE STREAK REACHES 23 • The Giants and Royals are meeting in • IF Pablo Sandoval has reached base safely in 23-straight postseason games (dating back the World Series for the rst time...SF is to Game Four of the NLDS on Oct. 10, 2012), the longest streak in Giants franchise his- just 3-9 versus Kansas City since Inter- tory and tied with Lance Berkman and Lou Gehrig for the sixth-longest in Major League league Play began in 1997...the Giants are history...Sandoval leads the Giants in hits (14), runs (6), extra-base hits (4) and total bases just 2-7 here at Kau! man Stadium and (18) this postseason. 1-2 at AT&T Park...both these teams faced one another this season from Aug. 8-10 BOCHY HALL OF FAME-WORTHY? here at the K and the Giants were swept • Bruce Bochy has now won four pennants as a manager, three with the Giants and one with in the three-game set, being outscored the Padres...every other manager to have at least that many is in the Baseball Hall of Fame. by a 16-6 margin. AT THE HELM THIS DATE IN GIANTS HISTORY October 21, 2012 - The Giants beat the • Bochy is in his seventh postseason stint as a big league manager, his third in eight seasons Cardinals 6-1 in Game Six of the NLCS to with SF...he's 37-27 (.578) all-time in postseason play, including a 29-11 (.725) record with force a Game Seven... Ryan Vogelsong SF...he's 8-5 all-time in the World Series...the Giants have never lost a postseason series in outdueled Chris Carpenter by tossing Bochy's tenure...Bochy has won nine straight postseason rounds since 2010, the second- 7.0 innings while allowing just one run longest streak ever by a manager, trailing only Joe Torre's 11 straight with the Yankees on four hits with nine strikeouts... Marco from 1998-2001. Scutaro drove in a pair of runs and Brandon Belt went 2-for-4 with two WINNER OF GAME ONE runs scored. • Winners of Game One have won 69 of the 109 World Series all-time (63.3%), including 15 of the last 17. World Champions (7): 1905, 1921, 1922, 1933, 1954, 2010, 2012 NL Pennants (20): 1904, 1905, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1917, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1933, 1936, 1937, 1951, 1954, 1962, 1989, 2002, 2010, 2012 NL West Titles (8): 1971, 1987, 1989, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2010, 2012 GIANTS POSTSEASON NOTES TODAY'S STARTING PITCHER - LHP MADISON BUMGARNER PAGE 2 40 • MADISON BUMGARNER • LHP BUMGARNER'S 2014 STARTS 6!5/235 • R/L • 25 (August 1, 1989) Date OPP DEC SCORE IP H R ER BB SO HR #P Service Time: 4 years, 127 days 3/31 @ARI -- W, 9-8 4.0 6 4 0 2 3 0 78 Contract Status: Signed through 2017 4/5 @LAD W W, 7-2 6.1 8 2 2 1 10 0 114 Breakdown W-L ERA G IP H R ER BB SO 4/11 COL W W, 6-5 6.0 9 4 4 2 7 1 112 2014 San Francisco 18-10 2.98 33 217.1 194 81 72 43 219 4/17 LA L L, 1-2 4.1 6 2 2 3 6 0 99 Career (6th season) 67-49 3.06 151 952.2 852 360 324 229 896 4/22 @COL L L, 1-2 8.0 9 2 2 1 6 2 97 2014 at AT&T Park 7-6 4.03 15 91.2 90 43 41 24 101 4/28 SD L L, 4-6 5.0 7 5 4 4 5 1 93 Career at AT&T Park 30-22 3.12 69 441.0 394 162 153 114 437 April (5 starts) 2-3 4.25 29.2 39 15 14 11 34 4 515 2014 on Road 11-4 2.22 18 125.2 104 38 31 19 118 5/4 @ATL W W, 4-1 6.0 3 1 0 1 9 0 95 Career on Road 37-27 3.01 82 511.2 458 198 171 115 459 5/9 @LAD W W, 3-1 8.0 4 1 1 1 8 1 112 5/14 ATL W W, 10-4 5.0 7 4 4 1 5 0 96 5/20 @COL -- L, 4-5 6.0 8 3 3 1 6 1 100 POSTSEASON 5/25 MIN W W, 8-1 7.0 3 1 1 0 10 0 107 • Was named the Most Valuable Player of the 2014 NLCS, becoming the " rst Giants 5/30 @STL W W, 9-4 7.0 3 0 0 1 10 0 103 pitcher to ever win the award, dating back to 1977 when it was " rst awarded..