Not like final season, there is no such thing as a probability the Giants and A’s will see one another within the playoffs.
And after this weekend’s Bay Bridge Sequence video games on the Coliseum, there is no such thing as a telling what number of extra instances the groups will play one another for Bay Space bragging rights. The A’s lease on the Coliseum runs out after subsequent season, and the staff hasn’t backed down on its risk to maneuver to Las Vegas if a brand new stadium deal isn’t reached for Howard Terminal.
Since interleague play arrived in 1997, the Bay Bridge Sequence has been one in all MLB’s greater success tales. It’s been aggressive – the A’s maintain a 71-65 benefit – and it’s been successful with the followers. 5 of the 9 largest regular-season crowds in Coliseum historical past have been for Bay Bridge Sequence video games, together with the highest two.
The Sequence is all even this season after the groups break up their first two video games at Oracle Park in April. Carlos Rodón received his third straight begin in a Giants uniform to kick issues off, an 8-2 Giants win. A day later, Chad Pinder made staff historical past when he turned the primary A’s participant to hit a leadoff dwelling run that turned out to be the one run of the sport. Paul Blackburn, a Heritage Excessive grad who grew up a Giants fan, and 5 relievers made that maintain up within the twenty first shutout within the collection.
Because the 2022 collection wraps up this weekend on the Coliseum, right here’s a have a look at a few of the memorable and notable moments within the historical past of the Bay Bridge Sequence. Not included in our record is the largest Bay Bridge Sequence second, the 1989 earthquake-interrupted World Sequence swept by the A’s. That’s a narrative for one more time.
July 2, 1997
The primary interleague Bay Bridge Sequence recreation was performed on a Wednesday afternoon at then-3Com Park. Barry Bonds didn’t homer, however Mark McGwire did within the A’s 8-1 win. McGwire solely hit 4 extra with the A’s earlier than being traded to the St. Louis Cardinals and starting his pursuit of Roger Maris. Bonds homered the next day, the primary of 18 in 52 video games towards the A’s. He additionally walked in 63 of his 222 plate appearances.
June 4, 2000
Jeff Kent hit two dwelling runs with 5 RBIs in an 18-2 Giants win. However amid all of the offense — the groups mixed for 26 hits and 5 dwelling runs — was Shawn Estes pitching the primary full recreation within the collection. It’s solely been executed 12 instances in 136 video games, the final coming by Tim Lincecum in 2011. That was the tip of a six-game stretch towards the A’s that noticed Lincecum go 5-0 with two shutouts and three full video games. The entire recreation that didn’t lead to a shutout may need been Lincecum’s most dominating towards the A’s, a 12-strikeout efficiency in 2009 spoiled solely by Jason Giambi’s penultimate homer in Inexperienced and Gold.
June 29, 2003
Bay Space native Eric Byrnes hit for the cycle towards the staff he grew up rooting for, carrying out the uncommon feat within the A’s 5-2 win with a no-way-he’s-stopping standup triple within the ninth inning. Byrnes had an enormous Sequence second a 12 months later, blasting a pair of three-run dwelling runs in an A’s 9-6 comeback win. The go-ahead rally was sparked when A’s starter Mark Mulder was hit by a pitch — the one time that occurred in his 131 profession plate appearances.
#OTD in 2003, Bay Space native Eric Byrnes goes 5 for five whereas hitting for the cycle towards the Giants! #RootedInOakland@byrnes22pic.twitter.com/j1ExnWjTy4
— Amazin’ A’s Craze (@AmazinAsCraze) June 29, 2020
June 26, 2004
In one of many wilder walk-off video games in Sequence historical past (there have been 11), the Giants tied the rating with a four-run ninth off new A’s nearer Octavio Dotel (the large blow was A.J. Pierzynski’s three-run homer, one in all his few shining moments with the membership). However within the backside of the tenth Marco Scutaro’s two-out single gave the A’s an 8-7 win. Scutaro additionally broke Giants followers’ hearts with a tie-breaking dwelling run off Matt Cain in 2007 — 5 years earlier than he turned an all-time franchise favourite for his 2012 playoff heroics.
Could 20, 2006
A day after hanging out to finish the sport, Bonds tied Babe Ruth on the all-time dwelling run record with No. 714 within the second inning. But it surely was his ninth-inning intentional stroll that arrange Ray Durham’s tie-breaking RBI single within the Giants’ 4-2 comeback win. Durham was the hero towards his former staff once more a couple of month later when he blasted a three-run walk-off dwelling run off nearer Huston Road in an 8-7 Giants win.
Could 18, 2007
After signing a $126 million, seven-year cope with the Giants within the offseason, Barry Zito returned to the Coliseum. He was met with boos and, in an indication of issues to come back, barely made it by 4 innings within the A’s 15-3 win. The A’s beat Zito once more a couple of month later and the lefty dropped his first 4 conferences towards his previous staff. However he practically evened issues out in the long run, beating the A’s in his closing three begins towards them, lastly breaking by in 2010.
Could 22, 2010
In one of many higher pitchers duels within the Sequence, Matt Cain and Gio Gonzalez each went eight innings in Oakland with out permitting an earned run. The A’s received 1-0 on an unearned run within the third inning. Cain’s luck by no means acquired a lot better towards the A’s. He had a dominating 2.42 ERA in 12 profession begins towards the A’s, pitching three full video games (together with a one-hit victory in 2006) however had a 4-5 report to indicate for it. The Coliseum was significantly unkind, the place he went 1-2 regardless of a 1.83 ERA.
September 26, 2015
It was alleged to be turn-back-the-clock day on the Coliseum, with two of the A’s previous “Large Three” — Zito and Tim Hudson — squaring off. However Hudson, for the Giants, didn’t get out of the second inning, and Zito, after taking the earlier season off and spending most of 2015 within the minors, was gone within the third. The star was rookie Jarrett Parker, who turned the primary Large to hit a minimum of three homers with seven RBIs in a recreation since Willie Mays. For good measure, Parker hit a tie-breaking grand slam within the eighth for his third dwelling run within the Giants’ 14-10 win.
Jarrett Parker is 3-3 all homers, his third a grand slam. Have. A. Day.
Kuip's "UNBELIEVABLE" is superior. #SFGiantspic.twitter.com/LFggLi3ByH
— Katie (@ntkrt) September 26, 2015
Hudson and Zito made yet another begin every earlier than retiring after the season. Parker hit simply 12 extra homers within the different 139 video games of his massive league profession. In the long run, 5 of his 15 profession dwelling runs got here towards the A’s.
July 21, 2018
It’s no secret the A’s typically have had bother filling the stadium, however this night time they opened Mount Davis for the primary time in 13 years and the sport drew 56,310 followers – an A’s report and the best attendance for any MLB recreation that season. The groups gave the followers their cash’s price in a wild recreation that noticed Madison Bumgarner chased after 4 innings and was not settled till Jonathan Lucroy’s two-out, walk-off single within the eleventh. Matt Chapman gave the A’s a 6-5 walk-off win a day later with a two-out RBI single within the tenth.
Jonathan CLUTCH Lucroy 😎
A's defeat the Giants 4-3 with Lucroy's walk-off RBI Single within the eleventh. @RickTittle can be taking your calls on A's Discuss NEXT! pic.twitter.com/ebKVu2b6q2
— 95.7 The Recreation (@957thegame) July 22, 2018
Aug. 14, 2020
With cardboard cutouts within the stands, the A’s received 8-7 in 10 innings in San Francisco. Bay Space native Stephen Piscotty’s grand slam tied it in a five-run ninth for the A’s, then one other Bay Space native, Mark Canha received it with a sacrifice fly to attain Chapman, who began the inning at second base beneath MLB’s extra-innings rule change.
June 25, 2021
The primary COVID-19 period recreation at full capability at Oracle drew 36,928 loud followers to look at Johnny Cueto outduel Sean Manaea in a 2-0 Giants win. Legend has it that the road that day on the garlic fries stand was at one level practically a quarter-mile.
August 21-22, 2021
The Giants made historical past by turning into the primary staff to hit lead-changing pinch-hit homers within the eighth inning or later in back-to-back video games. First it was LaMonte Wade Jr, who got here off the bench to hit a go-ahead two-run homer with one out within the ninth off A’s nearer Lou Trivino. A day later, Donovan Solano turned a 1-0 deficit right into a 2-1 Giants lead with a two-out, two-run homer within the eighth inning.