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 SEVEN SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS (3-3) AT KANSAS CITY ROYALS (3-3) RHP Tim Hudson (0-1, 3.72) vs. RHP Jeremy Guthrie (1-0, 2.70) Wednesday, October 29, 2014 • Kau man Stadium • 5:07 p.m. (PT) • FOX • ESPN Radio • KNBR 680 • ESPN Deportes 860 AM GIANTS SEEKING ANOTHER TITLE GIANTS ALL-TIME • The Giants are one win away from their eighth championship (1905, 1921, 1922, 1933, 1954, 2010, 2012), including their third in the past ! ve seasons...the Giants will be looking POSTSEASON RECORD to become the ! rst team to win three titles in a ! ve-year span since the New York Yankees won four from 1996-2000...the Giants are also seeking to become just the second NL team Overall (since 1900) . 95-87-2 to win three World Series in a ! ve-year span (Cardinals - 1942, 1944, 1946). SF-era (since 1958) . .56-46 In Home Games . .31-19 ROUGH LOSS In Road Games. .25-27 • Last night's 10-0 loss in Game 6 was the biggest shutout loss ever su" ered by the Giants At AT&T Park . .23-12 in the postseason, as it was their worst defeat in a playo" game since Game 5 of the 1951 World Series, a 13-1 loss against the Yankees. GIANTS IN THE WORLD SERIES POSTSEASON SERIES WIN STREAK ON THE LINE • The Giants have won nine straight postseason series (including the 2014 Wild Card game), Year Opponent W-L Series the longest such streak in NL history...only the 1998-2001 Yankees have produced a longer 1905 Philadelphia W 4-1 win streak at 11 straight postseason series wins (Elias). 1911 Philadelphia L 2-4 1912 Boston L 3-4-1 GIANTS IN GAME SEVEN 1913 Philadelphia L 1-4 • The Giants are 1-5 all-time when playing Game 7 of a best-of-7 series (1-3 since moving 1917 Chicago L 2-4 to San Francisco)...the Giants won their most recent Game 7, defeating the Cardinals, 9-0, 1921 New York W 5-3 in the the 2012 NLCS at AT&T Park...SF last played in a World Series Game 7 in 2002, when 1922 New York W 4-1-1 they lost to the Angels. 1923 New York L 2-4 WINNER TAKE ALL 1924 Washington L 3-4 • The Giants are 18-17 all-time in elimination postseason games...SF has won each of their 1933 Washington W 4-1 last seven elimination games, six of which came in 2012 and one this season in the Wild 1936 New York L 2-4 Card game at Pittsburgh...the Giants are 0-4 all-time in winner-take-all World Series games, 1937 New York L 1-4 with three of the four losses by one run. 1951 New York L 2-4 1954 Cleveland W 4-0 GIANTS LOOKING TO REVERSE TREND 1962 New York L 3-4 • San Francisco is seeking to become the ! rst team to win a Game 7 of the World Series on 1989 Oakland L 0-4 the road since the 1979 Pirates, who rallied from a three-games-to-one de! cit to beat the Orioles 4-1...the road team has lost the last nine World Series Game 7s. 2002 Anaheim L 3-4 2010 Texas W 4-1 HUDSON ON THE HILL 2012 Detroit W 4-0 • RHP Tim Hudson will make his ! rst start in a winner-take-all postseason game...at age 39, he'll be the oldest pitcher to start a winner-take-all World Series game ( Elias)...the Gi- GIANTS IN THE 2014 POSTSEASON ants right-hander will be seeking his ! rst postseason win since Game 2 of the 2001 ALDS Games . .16 against the Yankees...he's 1-4 with a 3.48 ERA in 12 career postseason starts. Record . .11-5 PABLO PERFORMS ON BIG STAGE Average . .257 (146x567) • IF Pablo Sandoval has recorded a team-high 23 hits this postseason, just one shy of his Avg. w/RISP . ..247 (37x150) franchise record for a single postseason (24 hits in 2012 postseason)...Sandoval is also just Runs Per Game . 4.3 (68) two hits shy of the highest single-season total ever in postseason play, shared by Darin Home Runs . 7 Erstad (2002), David Freese (2011) and Marquis Grissom (1995). Stolen Bases . 4 WILD CARD WORLD SERIES ERA . 2.92 (49er, 151.0ip) • The following teams have won the World Series as a Wild-Card team: Marlins (1997, 2003), Starters W-L . 5-4 Angels (2002), Red Sox (2004) and Cardinals (2011). Starters ERA . .3.24 (34er, 94.1ip) WINNING WAYS IN POSTSEASON Relievers W-L. 6-1 • Beginning with the 2010 postseason, the Giants have gone 33-14 (.702) in postseason Relievers ERA . .2.38 (15er, 56.2ip) play, going 16-7 (.696) at home and 17-7 (.708) on the road...the Giants have won 18 of Saves/Chances . 5/7 their last 23 postseason contests. GIANTS VS. ROYALS PENCE AT THE PLATE (including postseason) • OF Hunter Pence has a hit in all six games of this World Series, extending his hitting streak in World Series play to nine games, the longest by any Giant in the WS since Alvin Dark SF vs. KC (since 2003) . 6-12 in 1951 and 1954 (10 games)...during this nine-game streak, Pence has hit .424 (14x33). At Kau" man Stadium . 3-9 ELITE CLUB At AT&T Park . 3-3 • One more win and Bruce Bochy would become just the 10th manager to lead its team to three-or-more World Series titles...he would join Casey Stengel (7), Joe McCarthy (7), • The Giants and Royals are meeting in Connie Mack (5), Joe Torre (4), Walter Alston (4), Tony La Russa (3), Sparky Anderson (3), the World Series for the ! rst time...SF is John McGraw (3) and Miller Huggins (3)...all nine of these managers are in the Hall of Fame. just 6-12 versus Kansas City since Inter- league Play began in 1997 (including this AT THE HELM postseason)...the Giants are just 3-9 at • Bochy is 41-30 (.577) all-time in postseason play, including a 33-14 (.702) record with SF... Kau" man Stadium and 3-3 at AT&T Park he's 11-8 all-time in the World Series...SF has never lost a postseason series in Bochy's tenure...he's won nine straight postseason rounds since 2010, the second-longest streak (includes postseason)...both these teams ever by a manager, trailing only Joe Torre's 11 straight with the Yankees from 1998-2001. faced one another this season from Aug. 8-10 at the K and the Giants were swept GIANTS IN THE FALL CLASSIC in the three-game set, being outscored • The New York Giants were 5-9 lifetime in 14 appearances in the World Series and the San by a 16-6 margin. Francisco Giants have gone 2-3 in ! ve trips to the Fall Classic...the franchise's 56 World Series victories are the third-most all-time behind the Yankees (134) and Cardinals (58). 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 TIM HUDSON PAGE 2 17 • TIM HUDSON • RHP HUDSON’S 2014 STARTS 6!1/174 • R/R • 39 (July 14, 1975) Date OPP DEC SCORE IP H R ER BB SO HR #P Service Time: 15 years, 119 days 4/2 @ARI W W, 2-0 7.2 3 0 0 0 7 0 103 Contract Status: Signed through 2015 4/8 ARI W W, 7-3 8.0 7 3 2 0 4 0 101 4/13 COL -- W, 5-4 7.1 5 4 4 0 5 2 85 Breakdown W-L ERA G IP H R ER BB SO 4/19 @SD L L, 1-3 7.0 8 2 2 0 4 0 93 2014 San Francisco 9-13 3.57 31 189.1 199 86 75 34 120 4/25 CLE W W, 5-1 7.0 4 1 1 2 5 0 98 Career (16th season) 214-124 3.45 458 3003.0 2823 1257 1152 880 2016 4/30 SD W W, 3-2 8.2 5 2 2 0 6 1 89 2014 at AT&T Park 5-5 3.94 14 89.0 91 43 39 17 64 April (6 starts) 4-1 2.17 45.2 32 12 11 2 31 3 569 Career at AT&T Park 8-8 3.89 22 141.0 141 68 61 31 92 5/6 @PIT L L, 1-2 8.2 5 2 1 1 5 0 108 2014 on Road 4-8 3.23 17 100.1 108 43 36 17 56 5/11 @LA -- W, 7-4 6.0 8 2 2 1 2 1 78 Career on Road 101-72 3.76 226 1431.0 1422 650 598 435 901 5/22 @ COL -- W, 4-2 3.0 5 1 1 2 1 0 64 5/27 CHC W W, 4-0 7.0 6 0 0 0 5 0 96 May (4 starts) 1-1 1.46 24.2 24 5 4 4 13 1 346 POSTSEASON 6/1 @STL W W, 8-0 7.0 3 0 0 2 6 0 101 • Is 1-4 with a 3.53 ERA (29er, 74.0ip) in 13 games (12 starts) in his postseason 6/7 NYM -- W, 5-4 5.0 9 3 3 3 5 0 99 career...in three starts this postseason he is 0-1 with a 3.72 ERA (8er, 19.1ip)...his 6/12 WAS W W, 7-1 7.0 6 1 0 2 5 0 104 lone postseason victory came with the A’s in 2001 in Game 2 of the Division Series 6/18 @CWS L L, 6-7 4.2 12 7 7 1 0 2 83 against the Yankees.