San Francisco Giants in History

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• 1957-09-27 American MLB San Francisco Giants rent Pacific Coast League San Francisco Seals Stadium until Candlestick Park is built in 1960
• 1958-04-15 1st baseball game in California, SF Giants beat LA Dodgers, 8-0
• 1958-04-18 NL single-game record crowd of 78,682 as the Los Angeles Dodgers win their first ever home game over San Francisco Giants, 6-5, at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

• 1958-06-04 San Francisco Giants Hank Sauer and Bob Schmidt are first in NL history to hit consecutive pinch-hit HRs in 10-9 win over the Milwaukee Braves
• 1959-03-03 San Francisco Giants rename their stadium Candlestick Park

• 1959-09-26 SF Giants Sam Jones 2nd no-hitter, beats St Louis Cards, 4-0
• 1959-11-17 SF Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Willie McCovey wins NL Rookie of the Year

• 1960-06-18 San Francisco Giants hire Tom Sheehan to replace Bill Rigney; baseball's oldest debuting manager (66) goes 46-50-2 for remainder of season

• 1961-04-30 SF outfielder Willie Mays becomes just the 9th player in MLB history to hit 4 homers in one game in the Giants 14-4 win against the Braves in Milwaukee
• 1961-07-29 Philadelphia Phillies lose, 4-3 to SF Giants at Connie Mack Stadium; 1st of MLB record 23 straight defeats
• 1962-10-02 San Francisco Giants beat rival LA Dodgers, 8-7 in 4 hours 18 minutes in Game 2 NL tie-break series; longest 9-inning game in MLB history; Giants win series, 2-1
• 1962-10-03 SF Giants (103-62) beat rivals LA Dodgers (102-63), 6-4 in season ending NL pennant decider; Dodgers set MLB record season attendance 2,755,184
• 1962-10-16 Baseball World Series: NY Yankees win 20th championship; beat SF Giants, 1-0 at Candlestick Park for 4 games to 3 series victory; MVP: Yankees pitcher Ralph Terry
• 1963-02-20 Future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Willie Mays becomes the highest-paid player in MLB, signing a record $100,000 contract with the San Francisco Giants

• 1963-06-09 1st Sunday night game in baseball SF Giants lose to Houston Colts 3-0
• 1963-06-15 SF Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Juan Marichal no-hits Houston Colt .45s, 1-0
• 1963-07-02 SF Giants legend Willie Mays breaks up classic Juan Marichal vs Warren Spahn pitching dual, homering in 16th inning off Spahn for 1-0 win vs Milwaukee Braves
• 1963-07-09 All star MVP: Willie Mays (SF Giants)
• 1963-09-15 Alou brothers - Felipe, Matty, & Jesús - appear in San Francisco Giants outfield for 1 inning in a 13-5 win over Pittsburgh Pirates at Forbes Field
• 1964-01-15 San Francisco Giants make champion outfielder Willie Mays the highest-paid player in baseball when they sign him to a new $105,000 per season contract
• 1964-05-31 SF Giants beat NY Mets, 8-6, in 23 innings (2nd game) (7 hrs 32 mins)
• 1964-07-10 Jesús Alou is the first San Francisco Giant in 40 years to get 6 hits in a game in a 10-3 win over the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field

• 1965-07-13 36th MLB All Star Game, Metropolitan Stadium, Minnesota: NL wins, 6-5; MVP: Juan Marichal, SF Giants, P
• 1965-08-22 San Francisco Giants pitcher Juan Marachal hits LA Dodger catcher John Roseboro on the head with his bat causing a 14 minute brawl
• 1965-12-04 San Francisco Giant Masanori Murakami, 4-1 this year, does not renew his contract signing instead with the Nankai Hawks of Osaka for $40,000
• 1966-02-11 SF Giant Willie Mays signs highest contract, $130,000 per year
• 1966-07-03 Atlanta Braves Tony Cloninger, 1st NL player and only pitcher to hit 2 grand slams in a MLB game (17-3 v SF Giants)
• 1967-06-30 Philadelphia Phillies utility man Cookie Rojas pitches a scoreless 9th inning in 12-3 loss to SF Giants; Rojas had now played all 9 positions since arriving in MLB in 1963
• 1967-07-14 Houston Astro Eddie Matthews hits his 500th HR, off SF Giant Juan Marichal
• 1967-09-01 Cincinnati Reds reliever Bob Lee walks Dick Groat with bases loaded in 21st inning to give SF Giants a 1-0 win at Crosley Field; 20 scoreless innings ties MLB mark, Pirates v Braves 1918
• 1967-10-31 SF Giants Mike McCormick wins NL Cy Young Award

• 1968-07-09 39th MLB All Star Game, Astrodome, Houston, TX: NL beats AL, 1-0; MVP: Willie Mays, SF Giants, CF

• 1968-09-18 Ray Washburn (Cards) no-hits SF Giants 2-0
• 1968-10-14 MLB National League expansion draft: Snaan Diego Padres pick San Francisco Giants outfielder 'Downtown' Ollie Brown & Montreal Expos pick Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Manny Mota 1st as they choose 30 players each
• 1969-07-23 40th MLB All Star Game, RFK Memorial Stadium, Washington, D.C.: NL beats AL, 9-3; MVP: Willie McCovey, SF Giants, 1B
• 1969-09-13 San Francisco Giant Bobby Bonds is baseballs 4th 30-HR, 30-steal player
• 1969-09-22 San Francisco Giant Willie Mays, becomes second player to hit 600 home runs
• 1969-11-20 San Francisco Giant Willie McCovey edges Tom Seaver as NL MVP
• 1970-05-23 San Diego Padres beat SF Giants 17-16 in 15 innings
• 1970-07-08 SF Giant Jim Ray Hart is 8th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th)
• 1971-10-06 MLB National League Championship: Pittsburgh Pirates beat San Francisco Giants, 3 games to 1
• 1972-05-14 In Willie Mays' 1st game as New York Met, his homer beats San Francisco Giants, 5-4 (his former team of over 20 years), at Shea Stadium, New York
• 1972-08-29 SF Giant Jim Barr retires 1st 20 batters he faces added to last 21 he retired 6 days earlier for record 41 in a row

• 1973-06-20 SF Giants Bobby Bonds sets NL record with 22 lead off HRs
• 1973-07-15 MLB San Francisco Giant Willie McCovey becomes 15th to hit 400 HRs, this one at Candlestick Park against Pittsburgh Pirate's Bob Moose
• 1973-07-24 All Star MVP: Bobby Bonds (SF Giants)
• 1973-10-25 SF Giants trade Willie McCovey to San Diego Padres for pitcher Mike Caldwell
• 1974-09-03 SF Giants' pitcher John Montefusco in his MLB debut, homers in his first at bat and pitches 9 innings in relief to earn a 9 - 5 victory over the Dodgers
• 1974-10-22 MLB New York Yankees trade outfielder Bobby Murcer to San Francisco Giants for outfielder Bobby Bonds
• 1975-08-24 SF Giant Ed Halick no-hits NY Giants, 6-0
• 1976-03-04 MLB's San Francisco Giants are bought for $8 million by Bob Lurie and Bud Herseth
• 1976-09-29 San Francisco Giant John Montefusco no-hits Atlanta Braves, 9-0
• 1977-08-01 San Francisco Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits NL record 18th MLB career grand slam

• 1979-01-23 NY/SF Giants / New York Mets center fielder Willie Mays elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
• 1979-03-26 MLB San Diego Padres & San Francisco Giants announce plans to play exhibition series in Tokyo but Giant players reject it
• 1980-06-09 Phillies and SF Giants end their game at 3:11 AM
• 1980-06-27 Dodgers' Jerry Reuss no-hits SF Giants 8-0
• 1981-05-10 Montreal Expo Charlie Lee no-hits SF Giants, 4-0
• 1986-01-08 San Francisco Giants Willie McCovey is 16th elected to MLB Hall of Fame in his 1st year of eligibility
• 1986-06-27 Robby Thompson (SF Giants) sets record, caught stealing 4 times in 1 game
• 1986-09-25 Houston Astro Mike Scott no-hits SF Giants, 2-0

• 1987-10-14 MLB National League Championship: St. Louis Cardinals beat San Francisco Giants, 4 games to 3

• 1989-10-04 MLB San Francisco Giants 1st baseman Will Clark hits first NLCS grand slam since 1977 in 11-3 win v Chicago Cubs; Clark goes 4-for-4 with 2 HRs to tie NLCS RBI record (6) for an entire series in less than 4 innings
• 1989-10-09 MLB National League Championship: San Francisco Giants beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 1
• 1990-01-22 Will Clark, NL's MVP signs a $15M 4-year contract with SF Giants
• 1991-06-18 SF Giant pitcher Dave Dravecky's cancerous left arm is amputated
• 1992-08-07 San Francisco Giants announce sale of MLB franchise to group of Tampa Bay investors; move blocked by other investors
• 1992-12-06 San Francisco Giants sign record $43million USD pact with Pirates MLB outfielder Barry Bonds
• 1995-12-21 SF Giants announce plans to build a new stadium to open in 2000
• 1996-09-26 SF Giant Barry Bonds is 2nd player to hit 40 HRs & steal 40 bases
• 1997-02-20 San Francisco Giants Barry Bonds signs record $22.9M 2 year contract
• 1997-03-11 San Francisco Giant J T Snow suffers a fractured eye socket when hit by a pitch
• 1997-05-10 Chicago Cubs turn baseballs 68th triple play (vs SF Giants)
• 1997-05-16 MLB Montreal Expos trailing San Francisco Giants by 9 runs comeback to win 14-13
• 1997-06-10 Kevin Brown of Florida Marlins no hits SF Giants 9-0
• 1997-06-12 1st ever baseball regular season inter-league game SF Giants beat Texas Rangers 4-3
• 1997-11-06 SF Giants manager Dusty Baker named NL Manager of the Year
• 1998-04-05 The Arizona Diamondbacks record their first win in team history with a 3-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants in Phoenix, AZ; ends second-worst start ever (0-5) by an expansion team
• 2001-10-03 San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds Is walked for the 171st time in 11-8 win at Houston; breaks Babe Ruth's 1923 MLB single-season record for walks
• 2001-10-04 SF Giants slugger Barry Bonds hits his 70th home run in 10-2 win v Houston; ties Mark McGwire for the most MLB home runs in a single season
• 2002-05-04 Barry Bonds hits his 400th home run as an SF Giant, in a 3-0 win over Cincinnati. Bonds is first player with 400 homers for one team and 100 with another (Pirates)
• 2002-08-09 SF Giants outfielder Barry Bonds hits his 600th career home run
• 2002-10-14 MLB National League Championship: San Francisco Giants beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 1
• 2002-10-27 Baseball World Series: Anaheim beats San Francisco Giants, 4-1 in Game 7 at Edison Field to win Angels' first title; MVP: Anaheim 1st baseman Troy Glaus
• 2004-09-17 SF Giants outfielder Barry Bonds hits his 700th career MLB home run, off San Diego's Jake Peavy
• 2004-09-22 SF Giants outfielder Barry Bonds was intentionally walked 4 times in a 9-inning game (MLB record) for the second time (1 May 2004)

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• 1903-04-27 Horace Stoneham, American baseball executive (owner New York / San Francisco Giants 1936-76), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1990)
• 1911-06-11 Russ Hodges, American sportscaster (NY Mets, SF Giants; Wednesday Night Fights), born in Dayton, Tennessee (d. 1971)
• 1918-01-29 Bill Rigney, American baseball infielder (MLB All Star 1948; NY Giants) and manager (NY/SF Giants; LA Angels; Minnesota Twins), born in Alameda, California (d. 2001)
• 1918-03-31 Marv Grissom, American baseball pitcher, coach (MLB All Star 1954, NY, SF Giants), born in Los Molinos, CA (d. 2005)
• 1927-12-26 Stu Miller, American MLB baseball pitcher, 1952-68 (St. Louis Cardinals; New York/San Francisco Giants, and 3 other teams), born in Northampton, Massachusetts (d. 2015)
• 1930-04-12 Johnny Antonelli, American baseball pitcher (6 × MLB All-Star 1954, 56–59²; World Series, NL ERA leader 1954; SF Giants), born in Rochester, New York (d. 2020)

• 1934-12-02 Andre Rodgers, Bahamian baseball shortstop (first Bahamian to play in MLB; NY/SF Giants; Chicago Cubs), born in Nassau, Bahamas (d. 2004)

• 1938-09-29 Mike McCormick, American baseball pitcher (MLB All Star 1960–1961²; NL Cy Young Award 1967; NL wins leader 1967; NL ERA leader 1960; SF Giants), born in Pasadena, California (d. 2020)
• 1942-03-24 Jesús Alou, Dominican MLB baseball outfielder, 1963-79 (World Series 1973, 74 Oakland A's; Houston Astros, and 2 other teams), born in Bajos de Haina, Dominican Republic (d. 2023)
• 1942-04-05 Peter Magowan, American businessman (CEO Safeway 1979-93) and sports executive (owner SF Giants 1993-2008), born in New York City (d. 2019)
• 1942-07-04 Hal Lanier, American MLB baseball player, 1964-73 (San Francisco Giants, New York Yankees), born in Denton, North Carolina

• 1947-05-14 Dick "Dirt" Tidrow, American MLB pitcher, 1972-84 (Cleveland Indians; New York Yankees and 3 other teams), and executive (Asst GM, San Francisco Giants), born in San Francisco, California
• 1947-05-26 Darrell Evans, American baseball infielder (MLB All-Star 1973, 83; World Series 1984; AL HR leader 1985; Atlanta Braves, SF Giants, Detroit Tigers), born in Pasadena, California
• 1947-11-12 Ron Bryant, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants), born in Redlands, California
• 1949-01-03 Gary Lavelle, American baseball pitcher (MLB All Star 1977, 83; SF Giants), born in Scranton, Pennsylvania
• 1949-09-01 Garry Maddox, American MLB centerfielder, 1972-86 (San Francisco Giants; Philadelphia Phillies - 8X Gold Glove, World Series champ), broadcaster, entrepreneur, and Vietnam War veteran, born in Cincinnati, Ohio
• 1955-04-16 Bruce Bochy, American baseball player and manager (San Francisco Giants), born in Landes de Boussac, Bussac-Forêt, France
• 1956-07-01 Brian Sabean, American MLB executive (San Francisco Giants World Series 2010, 2012, 2014), born in Concord, New Hampshire
• 1957-06-08 Don Robinson, American baseball pitcher (World Series 1979, Pittsburgh Pirates; Silver Slugger Award 1982, 89, 90; SF Giants), born in Ashland, Kentucky
• 1961-10-30 Scott Garrelts, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants), born in Urbana, Illinois
• 1962-01-13 Kevin Mitchell, American baseball outfielder (NL MVP 1989; MLB All Star 1989, 90; SF Giants), born in San Diego, California
• 1962-03-01 Mark Gardner, American baseball pitcher and coach (World Series 2010, 12, 14; SF Giants), born in Los Angeles, California
• 1962-05-10 Robby Thompson, infielder (SF Giants), born in West Palm Beach, Florida
• 1963-03-21 Shawon Dunston, infielder (SF Giants), born in Brooklyn, New York
• 1963-04-13 Mark Leiter, American baseball pitcher (SF Giants), born in Joliet, Illinois
• 1963-07-19 Mark Carreon, American baseball outfielder (SF Giants), born in Chicago, Illinois
• 1964-01-09 Stan Javier, Dominican outfielder (Oak A's, SF Giants), born in San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic
• 1964-03-13 Will Clark, American MLB first baseman (San Francisco Giants), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
• 1964-07-25 José Bautista, Dominican baseball pitcher (SF Giants), born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
• 1964-10-07 Rich Delucia, American baseball pitcher (SF Giants), born in Reading, Pennsylvania
• 1965-01-20 Brad Brink, American baseball pitcher (SF Giants, Philadelphia Phillies), born in Roseville, California
• 1965-07-15 Kirt Manwaring, American MLB player (SF Giants), born in Elmira, New York
• 1965-10-25 Steve Decker, American baseball catcher (SF Giants), born in Rock Island, Illinois
• 1965-11-28 Matt Williams, American baseball infielder (5 x MLB All Star; NL home run leader 1994; NL RBI leader 1990; SF Giants) and manager (Washington Nationals), born in Bishop, California
• 1967-02-11 John Patterson, American baseball infielder (SF Giants), born in Orange, Texas
• 1967-07-13 Pat Rapp, American MLB baseball pitcher, 1992-2001 (Florida Marlins, San Francisco Giants, and 4 other teams), born in Jennings, Louisiana
• 1968-06-30 Dan Peltier, American baseball outfielder (SF Giants), born in Clifton Park, New York
• 1968-08-03 Rod Beck, American baseball pitcher (MLB All-Star 1993, 94, 97; San Francisco Giants), born in Burbank, California (d. 2007)
• 1968-11-04 Osvaldo Fernandez, Cuban MLB pitcher (SF Giants), born in Holguin, Cuba
• 1970-01-02 Royce Clayton, American baseball shortstop (MLB All Star 1997; SF Giants, St Louis Cardinals) and actor (The Rookie, Moneyball), born in Burbank, California
• 1970-01-20 Marvin Benard, American baseball outfielder (SF Giants), born in Bluefields, Nicaragua
• 1970-07-16 William Van Landingham, American baseball pitcher (SF Giants), born in Columbia, Tennessee
• 1970-11-18 Allen Watson, American baseball pitcher (SF Giants), born in Brooklyn, New York
• 1971-01-19 Jeff Juden, American baseball pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies, SF Giants), born in Salem, Massachusetts
• 1971-09-02 Rich Aurilia, infielder (SF Giants), born in Brooklyn, New York
• 1973-01-29 Jason Schmidt, American baseball pitcher (MLB All-Star 2003, 04, 06; Pittsburgh Pirates, SF Giants), born in Lewiston, Idaho
• 1973-08-11 Edgardo Alfonzo, Venezualan MLB infielder, 1995-2006 (NY Mets; San Francisco Giants, and 2 other teams), born in Miranda, Venezuela
• 1974-06-09 Randy Winn, American baseball outfielder (MLB All Star 2002; TB Devil Rays, Seattle Mariners, SF Giants) and analyst (NBC Sports Bay Area), born in Los Angeles, California
• 1975-07-14 Tim Hudson, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants), born in Columbus, Georgia
• 1977-07-05 Javier López, Puerto Rican baseball pitcher (World Series 2007 Boston Red Sox; 2010, 12, 14 San Francisco Giants), born in San Juan, Puerto Rico
• 1978-04-04 Jason Ellison, American MLB baseball player, 2003-08 (San Francisco Giants and 3 other teams), born in Quincy, California
• 1978-05-13 Barry Zito, American baseball player (Oakland Athletics, San Francisco Giants), born in Las Vegas, Nevada
• 1981-05-31 Jake Peavy, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants), born in Mobile, Alabama
• 1984-10-01 Matt Cain, American baseball pitcher (SF Giants; perfect game 2012; MLB All Star 2009, 11-12), born in Dothan, Alabama

• 1971-04-19 Russ Hodges, American sportscaster (NY Mets, SF Giants; Wednesday Night Fights), dies at 60
• 1990-01-07 Horace Stoneham, American baseball executive (owner New York / San Francisco Giants 1936-76), dies at 86

• 2004-12-13 Andre Rodgers, Bahamian baseball shortstop (first Bahamian to play in MLB; NY/SF Giants; Chicago Cubs), dies at 70
• 2005-09-18 Marv Grissom, American baseball pitcher, coach (MLB All Star 1954, NY, SF Giants), dies at 87
• 2007-06-23 Rod Beck, American baseball pitcher (MLB All-Star 1993, 94, 97; San Francisco Giants), dies from a drug overdose at 38
• 2015-01-04 Stu Miller, American MLB baseball pitcher, 1952-68 (St. Louis Cardinals; New York/San Francisco Giants, and 3 other teams, dies at 87

• 2019-01-27 Peter Magowan, American businessman (CEO Safeway 1979-93) and sports executive (owner SF Giants 1993-2008), dies of liver cancer at 76
• 2020-02-28 Johnny Antonelli, American baseball pitcher (6 × MLB All-Star 1954, 56–59²; World Series, NL ERA leader 1954; SF Giants), dies from colon cancer at 89
• 2020-06-13 Mike McCormick, American baseball pitcher (MLB All Star 1960–1961²; NL Cy Young Award 1967; NL wins leader 1967; NL ERA leader 1960; SF Giants), dies of Parkinson’s disease at 81