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yuiyoshida

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Thu Oct 16, 2014, 11:31 PM Oct 2014

SF Giants win pennant on Travis Ishikawa’s walkoff homer [View all]

Last edited Fri Oct 17, 2014, 01:25 AM - Edit history (1)

Source: SFGATE



The 2014 Giants fell out of first place with a tremendous early-summer thud. They fell out of the top wild-card spot with a tepid late summer. They kept tumbling until it was time to rise, dust themselves off and become the last National League club standing.



Mobbing was more like it, after the Giants captured their third pennant in five seasons in the most thrilling way possible Thursday night.

After Michael Morse so improbably tied Game 5 of the National League Championship Series with an eighth-inning homer off Pat Neshek, Travis Ishikawa hit a three-run homer off Michael Wacha with one out in the ninth for a 6-3 win that sent AT&T Park into a state of delirium, and the Giants to the World Series.

The Giants won their seventh pennant in San Francisco and 21st in franchise history with, of all things, the long ball.

Read more: http://blog.sfgate.com/giants/2014/10/16/sf-giants-win-pennant-on-travis-ishikawas-walkoff-homer/



HOW sweet it is

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Perfect way for them to move on. TDale313 Oct 2014 #1
an awesome, dramatic finish BuddhaGirl Oct 2014 #2
YAY! deurbano Oct 2014 #3
oh yeah!!!! yuiyoshida Oct 2014 #5
can't wait for something like this again ,... yuiyoshida Oct 2014 #21
congrats Giants, now welcome to the World Series! beware of SungWoo in Game 1... big_dog Oct 2014 #39
Tit for tat, smart money says Wavy Gravy will make an appearance in San Francisco Brother Buzz Oct 2014 #41
this is going to be a great series, one of the best playoffs in history! big_dog Oct 2014 #42
I agree. Fun Fact: The last time Wavy Gravy was in Kansas City the republicans lost the White House Brother Buzz Oct 2014 #43
LOLZ touche, ther is no way to top that! big_dog Oct 2014 #44
And they started as a Wild Card....Congratulations GIANTS..awesome win.... Tikki Oct 2014 #4
Right now Tony Bennett is singing yuiyoshida Oct 2014 #6
Hug for you my fellow Giants Fan, montana_hazeleyes Oct 2014 #8
both teams in the World Series started as wild card teams.... olddad56 Oct 2014 #11
YES BUT WHO CAN DO THIS...BEST? yuiyoshida Oct 2014 #13
And only a Budweiser drinker would do something so stupid. longship Oct 2014 #27
Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! montana_hazeleyes Oct 2014 #7
and they are a mess... lol! yuiyoshida Oct 2014 #36
Travis Ishikawa in the NLCS: 7 RBIs, 1R, 1 HR, .385 AVG, .429 OBP, .769 SLG StevieM Oct 2014 #9
Good on the Giants, yuiyoshida! Cha Oct 2014 #10
amazing pic... yuiyoshida Oct 2014 #38
Mahalo :) Cha Oct 2014 #46
KC is going to kick their asses in 5. Just saying... Purveyor Oct 2014 #12
I will say this again.....The Giants love the Underdog role yuiyoshida Oct 2014 #14
What a game, what a series! NBachers Oct 2014 #15
Ishikawa is SUBARASHII...FANTASTIC AsahinaKimi Oct 2014 #16
OH YEAH! yuiyoshida Oct 2014 #18
Cool!!! C Moon Oct 2014 #17
It's great to hear the Giants won davidpdx Oct 2014 #19
The Giants love the Underdog role yuiyoshida Oct 2014 #23
This is going to be a crazy World Series. joshcryer Oct 2014 #20
IT WOULD BE CRAZIER IF yuiyoshida Oct 2014 #24
Hey Royals, guess what? sakabatou Oct 2014 #22
Ewwww! Xithras Oct 2014 #37
That... was very poor taste of words. sakabatou Oct 2014 #40
Lol, it's an old joke. Xithras Oct 2014 #45
That's what's up!! KeepItReal Oct 2014 #25
Travis sez... yuiyoshida Oct 2014 #26
Somehow I knew that you would have a post on this when I woke up today rurallib Oct 2014 #28
You know there was a Twitter hashtag yuiyoshida Oct 2014 #29
Something that a Cub fan may never know rurallib Oct 2014 #30
Everyone loves the cubs... yuiyoshida Oct 2014 #31
As a Yankees fan.... CANDO Oct 2014 #32
Michael Morse (who tied the game with a HR ) will be in the DH spot in Kansas City yuiyoshida Oct 2014 #33
From St Louis - Thank You, Giants!!! Gamecock Lefty Oct 2014 #34
I was reading the Tweets about Watcha on Twitter.. yuiyoshida Oct 2014 #35
Congrats! flying rabbit Oct 2014 #47
You will be happy to know your Royals are favored.... yuiyoshida Oct 2014 #48
To a good series flying rabbit Oct 2014 #49
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