The San Francisco Giants are an American professional baseball team based in San Francisco. The Giants compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West Division. Founded in 1883 as the New York Gothams,the team was renamed the New York Giants three years later,eventually relocating from New York City to San Francisco in 1958. The Giants play their home games in Oracle Park in San Francisco.
Duane Eugene Kuiper,nicknamed "Kuip",is an American sportscaster and former professional baseball player. As a player,he was a second baseman for the Cleveland Indians and San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB). Save for one year,Kuiper has been a television and radio broadcaster for the Giants since 1986,and is one half of the popular "Kruk and Kuip" duo alongside his friend and former teammate Mike Krukow. He briefly left the Giants in 1993 to work for the expansion Colorado Rockies,but returned in 1994.
Jon Miller is an American sportscaster,known primarily for his broadcasts of Major League Baseball. Since 1997,he has been employed as a play-by-play announcer for the San Francisco Giants. He was also a baseball announcer for ESPN from 1990 to 2010. Miller received the Ford C. Frick Award from the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2010.
James Joseph Deshaies is an American former professional baseball left-handed starting pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for six teams over the course of 12 big league seasons. He is currently a color commentator for broadcasts of Chicago Cubs games.
Terence John Mulholland is an American former professional baseball pitcher. His Major League Baseball (MLB) career spanned 20 seasons,1986 and 1988 to 2006. He threw left-handed and batted right-handed.
David Braxton Flemming is an American sportscaster who has been a play-by-play announcer for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball since 2003. Flemming also calls college football,college basketball,major league baseball,and golf on ESPN,as well as the World Series and World Baseball Classic for MLB International.
Richard William Tidrow was an American professional baseball pitcher and the senior vice president of player personnel and senior advisor to the general manager for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB).
Matthew Thomas Cain is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played his entire Major League Baseball (MLB) career for the San Francisco Giants from 2005 to 2017. A two-time World Series champion and a three-time All-Star,he is widely regarded as a central figure of the Giants' success in the 2010s for his pitching and leadership.
Mark William Davis is an American former professional baseball pitcher. Davis played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies,San Francisco Giants (1983–1987),San Diego Padres,Kansas City Royals (1990–1992),Atlanta Braves (1992),and Milwaukee Brewers (1997). He won the National League Cy Young Award in 1989,as a relief pitcher for the Padres. Davis batted and threw left-handed. He was the Minor League Pitching Coordinator for the Kansas City Royals organization,but stepped aside after the 2011 season to coach a single short-season affiliate in 2012.
Aaron Shawn Estes is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB for the San Francisco Giants,New York Mets,Cincinnati Reds,Chicago Cubs,Colorado Rockies,Arizona Diamondbacks,and San Diego Padres.
Eddie Lee Whitson is an American retired professional baseball pitcher. He played Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates,San Francisco Giants,Cleveland Indians,San Diego Padres and New York Yankees from 1977 to 1991. He was selected to the NL All-Star team representing the Giants in 1980.
William Alan Laskey is an American former professional baseball player who was a pitcher for six seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1982 to 1986 and in 1988. He played for the San Francisco Giants,Montreal Expos,and Cleveland Indians. Laskey stands 6 feet 5 inches (196 cm) tall and weighs 190 pounds (86 kg). When he played he batted and threw right-handed.
Alfred Willis Holland is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher,who played Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates,San Francisco Giants,Philadelphia Phillies,California Angels,and New York Yankees,from 1977 to 1987.
David Arthur Roberts was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a left-handed pitcher from 1969 to 1981 for eight teams. He was second in the National League (NL) with a 2.10 earned run average (ERA) in 1971 for the San Diego Padres,after which he was traded to the Houston Astros,where he spent the four most productive years of his career. Roberts was also a member of the 1979 World Series winning Pittsburgh Pirates team. Over his major league career he won 103 games.
The 1986 San Francisco Giants season was the Giants' 104th season in Major League Baseball,their 29th season in San Francisco since their move from New York following the 1957 season,and their 27th at Candlestick Park. The team finished in third place in the National League West with an 83–79 record,13 games behind the Houston Astros.
The 1983 San Francisco Giants season was the Giants' 101st season in Major League Baseball,their 26th season in San Francisco since their move from New York following the 1957 season,and their 24th at Candlestick Park. The team finished in fifth place in the National League West with a 79–83 record,12 games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Daniel James Larson is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher. Larson pitched in all or parts of seven seasons from 1976 and 1982.
On June 13,2012,Matt Cain of the San Francisco Giants pitched the 22nd perfect game in Major League Baseball (MLB) history and the first in Giants' franchise history. Prior to the game,Cain and professional golfer Dustin Johnson hit golf balls from home plate into McCovey Cove. Pitching against the Houston Astros at AT&T Park in San Francisco,California,Cain retired all 27 batters that he faced and tallied 14 strikeouts,tied for the most strikeouts in a perfect game with Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1965. Following Philip Humber's perfect game earlier in 2012,Cain's performance marked just the third season in MLB history in which multiple perfect games were thrown. In June 1880,Lee Richmond and John Montgomery Ward both threw perfect games;in May 2010 Dallas Braden and Roy Halladay both accomplished the feat.
GiantsVision was a pay-per-view television service for Major League Baseball games featuring the San Francisco Giants. GiantsVision was in operation for four seasons (1986–1989). Prior to this,the team's only local television outlet was KTVU,which had been broadcasting Giants games since 1961.
