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The Giants have never, repeat never, won a game seven. They are 0 and 5.
SAN FRANCISCO – The Giants have never won a Game 7 in their 128 years of dancing on diamonds. They’ll hand a freshly rubbed baseball and all their hopes to Matt Cain as they seek to outreach the St. Louis Cardinals for the NL pennant on Monday.
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The Giants are 0-5 in their history in Game 7s. Their shortcomings include a roaring red surge at Anaheim in the 2002 World Series, Bobby Richardson gloving Willie McCovey’s line drive in the 1962 World Series – and, most applicably given their current foe, Jose Oquendo’s three-run knockout shot against Atlee Hammaker in the 1987 NLCS at old Busch Stadium.
(Doubtful anyone remembers that 4-3, 12-inning loss to the Washington Senators in Game 7 of the 1924 World Series, or that 3-2, 10-inning loss to the Boston Red Sox to decide it all in 1912. But they had to be crying at Coogan’s Bluff back then.)
Cain, for all his postseason experience over the past three years, has never participated in a Game 7. The only current Giant who has is Ryan Theriot, who was 0 for 5 amid the Cardinals’ World Series-clinching victory over Texas last year.
So this will be a new experience -- but perhaps not a daunting one for a team that already has won five elimination games this postseason....
http://www.csnbayarea.com/10/22/12/Cain-will-try-to-end-history-of-Game-7-p/nbcsportsgiants.html?blockID=791909&feedID=2796
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The Giants are 0-5 in their history in Game 7s. Their shortcomings include a roaring red surge at Anaheim in the 2002 World Series, Bobby Richardson gloving Willie McCovey’s line drive in the 1962 World Series – and, most applicably given their current foe, Jose Oquendo’s three-run knockout shot against Atlee Hammaker in the 1987 NLCS at old Busch Stadium.
(Doubtful anyone remembers that 4-3, 12-inning loss to the Washington Senators in Game 7 of the 1924 World Series, or that 3-2, 10-inning loss to the Boston Red Sox to decide it all in 1912. But they had to be crying at Coogan’s Bluff back then.)
Cain, for all his postseason experience over the past three years, has never participated in a Game 7. The only current Giant who has is Ryan Theriot, who was 0 for 5 amid the Cardinals’ World Series-clinching victory over Texas last year.
So this will be a new experience -- but perhaps not a daunting one for a team that already has won five elimination games this postseason....
http://www.csnbayarea.com/10/22/12/Cain-will-try-to-end-history-of-Game-7-p/nbcsportsgiants.html?blockID=791909&feedID=2796
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Didn't think El was a big fan of the English Premier League.
