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 NATIONAL LEAGUE DIVISION SERIES - GAME FOUR WASHINGTON NATIONALS (1-2) AT SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS (2-1) LHP Gio Gonzalez (10-10, 3.57) vs. RHP Ryan Vogelsong (8-13, 4.00) Tuesday, October 7, 2014 • AT&T Park • 6:07 p.m. (PT) • Fox Sports 1 • ESPN Radio • KNBR 680 UPCOMING PROBABLE STARTING PITCHERS & BROADCAST SCHEDULE: • Game Five (if necessary), Oct. 9 at Washington (#2:07p.m.): TBD vs. TBD- Fox Sports 1 # If the LAD/STL series is completed, Thursday's game time would change to 5:37p.m. PT Please note all games broadcast on KNBR 680 AM (English radio) and ESPN Radio. All postseason home games broadcast on 860 AM ESPN Deportes (Spanish radio). TONIGHT'S GAME GIANTS ALL-TIME • The Giants and Nationals play Game Four of this best-of- ve Division Series...SF fell 4-1 in POSTSEASON RECORD Game Three yesterday, having their 10-game postseason winning streak snapped, tied for the third-longest win streak in postseason history. Overall (since 1900) . 87-83-2 SF-era (since 1958) . .48-42 GIANTS IN CLINCHING GAMES In Home Games . .25-18 • The Giants are 15-10 (.600) all-time in potential series clinching games and 5-3 (.625) in In Road Games. .23-24 such games at home. At AT&T Park . .17-11 GIANTS IN THE NLDS IN GOOD POSITION • Teams holding a 2-1 lead in a best-of- ve series have won the series 52 of 71 times (.732) Year Opponent W-L Series in MLB history...the last team to come back from a 2-0 de cit to win a ve game series 1997 Florida L 0-3 was San Francisco in 2012 against Cincinnati. 2000 New York L 1-3 2002 Atlanta W 3-2 SF UP 2-1 2003 Florida L 1-3 • The Giants have a 2-1 series lead in a best-of- ve set for just the second time in franchise 2010 Atlanta W 3-1 2012 Cincinnati W 3-2 history...SF won their only other such series with a game four win against the Braves in the 2010 NLDS. THE GIANTS - REGULAR SEASON WINNING WAYS Finished the 2014 regular season (57th in • Despite yesterday's loss, the Giants have still won 14 of their last 18 postseason games San Francisco and 132nd overall) with an and 24 of the last 33...beginning with the 2010 postseason, the Giants have gone 25-10 88-74 (.543) record, the rst time in the (.714) in the playo! s. modern era that they made the postsea- son with fewer than 90 wins...SF nished in second place in the National League VOGEL-STRONG IN POSTSEASON PLAY West, 6.0 games behind rst-place Los • RHP Ryan Vogelsong will be making his fth career postseason start tonight...the 37-year- Angeles...the Giants held possession of old made four starts in the Giants' 2012 World Series run, going 3-0 with a 1.09 ERA (3er, rst place in the NL West for 96 days, but 24.2ip)...the Giants won all four of those games making Vogelsong the second Giants last held rst on July 26...SF was a season- pitcher to start his career with four consecutive team wins in his postseason starts (also: high 22 games over .500 on June 8. Christy Mathewson from 1905-1911). HOW THE GIANTS GOT HERE PABLO'S POSTSEASON HIT STREAK The Giants nearly blew a chance at even • IF Pablo Sandoval's 2nd inning single yesterday extended his postseason hitting streak making the postseason with a two and to 14 games, the longest current postseason hit streak in the Majors and the longest in a half month stint in which they were 15 Giants franchise history...the only player to have a longer playo! hitting streak in the NL games under .500...SF had the best record was Marquis Grissom (15) for the Braves from 1995-1996...the postseason record is 17, in baseball through June 8, then had a shared by Hank Bauer (1956-58), Derek Jeter (1998-99) and Manny Ramirez (2003-04). two-month swoon from June 9-Aug. 25 in which they had a season-high 10-game VERSUS GIO lead in the NL West, then lost that lead in just 25 days in June-July...then they n- • The Giants did not face tonight's opposing starter LHP Gio Gonzalez this season...they ished the regular season by winning 19 of did face him twice in 2013 and managed to score only one run o! him in 11.1 innings... their nal 31 games to clinch a wild-card overall, Gonzalez has gone 2-2 with a 2.59 ERA (12er, 41.2ip) in seven starts against SF. berth...SF defeated the Pirates, 8-0, in the one-game playo! Wednesday night. WITH THE BATS • The Giants have hit just .208 (26x125) in this Division Series, including .138 (4x29) with GIANTS VS. NATIONALS runners in scoring position, while scoring six runs in 36.0 innings...in the past two games, SF has totaled three runs, while batting .159 (14x88) over 27.0 innings... IF Brandon Craw- SF vs. MON/WSH (since 1969) . 236-225 SF vs. WSH (since 2005) . 31-33 ford , Joe Panik and OF Gregor Blanco have combined to go 0-for-29 in this stretch. At Nationals Park . 14-18 At AT&T Park . 27-25 ON THE MOUND • Giants pitchers in this postseason have combined for a 1.20 ERA (6er, 45.0ip) and .163 op- • The Giants and Nationals will meet ponents average against (26x160)...the starting sta! has posted a 0.93 gure (3er, 29.0ip) in the postseason for the rst time...SF while the relief corps has a 1.69 ERA (3er, 16.0ip). lost ve of seven games to the Nats this season, going 1-4 at AT&T Park and 1-2 in D.C...SF was outscored 41-30 in the GIANTS VERSUS LEFT-HANDERS series...the Giants' only two wins came • The Giants posted a record of 30-30 against left-handed starting pitchers in 2014...SF hit in Tim Hudson's starts...since 2012, the .258 against southpaws, the fourth-highest clip in the NL... IF Brandon Crawford posted Giants have lost 13 of their last 19 games the seventh-highest batting average in the NL against left-handed pitchers, hitting .320. to the Nationals. GREAT GAME FOUR RECORD THIS DATE IN GIANTS HISTORY • The Giants are 8-2 in their last 10 postseason Game Four's. October 7, 2001 - The Giants' Barry Bonds extends his Major League record AT THE HELM for home run in a season to 73 as he • Bruce Bochy is in his seventh postseason stint as a big league manager, his third in eight drives a 3-2 rst inning knuckleball o! Dodgers pitcher Dennis Springer over seasons with SF...Bochy is 33-26 (.559) all-time in postseason play, including a 25-10 (.714) the right eld fence...the Giants defeat record with SF...the Giants have never lost a postseason series in Bochy's tenure. the Dodgers, 2-1. 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 - RHP RYAN VOGELSONG PAGE 2 32 • RYAN VOGELSONG • RHP VOGELSONG’S 2014 STARTS 6!4/214 • R/R • 37 (July 22, 1977) Date OPP DEC SCORE IP H R ER BB SO HR #P Service Time: 8 years, 20 days 4/4 @LAD -- W, 8-4 4.0 7 4 4 2 4 2 94 Contract Status: Signed through 2014 (free agent after season) 4/10 ARI -- L, 5-6 (10) 5.0 7 4 4 1 5 0 93 Breakdown W-L ERA G IP H R ER BB SO 4/16 LAD -- W, 2-1 6.0 4 1 1 2 2 0 83 2014 San Francisco 8-13 4.00 32 184.2 178 86 82 58 151 4/21 @COL L L, 2-8 1.1 6 5 5 3 0 3 59 Career (9th season) 49-57 4.42 232 972.2 984 514 478 373 731 4/27 CLE -- W, 4-1 7.0 2 0 0 2 6 0 104 2014 at AT&T Park 3-7 3.06 16 100.0 84 35 34 23 85 April (5 starts) 0-1 5.40 23.1 26 14 14 10 17 5 433 Career at AT&T Park 20-21 3.38 72 396.2 364 155 149 124 298 5/3 @ATL W W, 3-1 6.0 5 1 1 4 6 0 107 2014 on Road 5-6 5.10 16 84.2 94 51 48 35 66 5/8 @LAD -- W, 3-1(10) 7.1 5 1 1 2 2 0 104 Career on Road 24-24 4.78 110 435.1 459 256 231 178 329 5/13 ATL L L, 0-5 6.0 7 4 4 1 8 0 96 5/18 MIA W W, 4-1 7.0 5 0 0 1 6 0 98 POSTSEASON LOWEST SINGLE POSTSEASON 5/24 MIN W W, 2-1 6.2 3 0 0 1 7 0 107 • Vogelsong is on his second postseason ERA AMONG GIANTS STARTERS 5/29 @STL -- W, 6-5 6.1 7 4 4 3 5 1 101 roster...made four postseason starts for (min.