2010 World Series

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2010 World Series
Globe Life Park in Arlington (Texas)
MVPÉdgar Rentería (San Francisco)
UmpiresJohn Hirschbeck (crew chief), Sam Holbrook, Bill Miller, Mike Winters, Jeff Kellogg, Gary Darling.[1]
Hall of FamersGiants: None
Rangers: Vladimir Guerrero
Broadcast
TelevisionFox (United States)
MLB International (International)
TV announcersJoe Buck and Tim McCarver (Fox)
Gary Thorne and Rick Sutcliffe (MLB International)
RadioESPN
KNBR (SF)
KESN (TEX)
Radio announcersJon Miller and Joe Morgan (ESPN)
Duane Kuiper, Dave Flemming and Mike Krukow (KNBR)
Eric Nadel and Dave Barnett (KESN)
ALCSTexas Rangers over New York Yankees (4–2)
NLCSSan Francisco Giants over Philadelphia Phillies (4–2)
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The 2010 World Series was the

best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion Texas Rangers and the National League (NL) champion San Francisco Giants; the Giants won the series, four games to one, to secure their first World Series championship since 1954 and their first since relocating to San Francisco from New York City in 1958.[3][4]
The series began on Wednesday, October 27, and ended on Monday, November 1.

In their respective League Championship Series, the Rangers and the Giants eliminated the 2009 World Series teams—the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies—each in six games. The Rangers' victory in the AL Championship Series gave the franchise its first World Series appearance in its 50-year history, dating from their inauguration as the second Washington Senators club in 1961. Meanwhile, the victory in the NL Championship Series gave the Giants their fourth World Series appearance since moving to San Francisco prior to the 1958 season; their most recent appearance had been in the 2002 World Series, when they lost to the Anaheim Angels in seven games. Coincidentally, the Giants and Rangers faced off in the first regular-season interleague game, on June 12, 1997, at the Ballpark in Arlington;[5] Rangers reliever Darren Oliver, then in his first stint with the club, threw the game's first pitch.

The Giants had home-field advantage for the World Series (the first NL champions since

Fox's NFL coverage.[6]

San Francisco landmarks, such as Coit Tower, the Ferry Building, and San Francisco City Hall, were illuminated with orange lighting at night during the postseason. An exclusive VIP party was held on the eve of the World Series at the California Academy of Sciences (in Golden Gate Park); most media were not allowed near the event.[7] San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom made a friendly wager with Arlington mayor Robert Cluck, agreeing that "the losing city's mayor will travel to the winning city and join the winning city's mayor in a day of support for local youth and community service initiatives, with both mayors wearing the jersey of the World Series Champion team."[8] With three games slated in Arlington, this marked the 5th time the same city hosted both a World Series game and the upcoming Super Bowl (Los Angeles 1966–67, Minneapolis 1991–92, Atlanta 1999–2000, Tampa 2008–09).

Background

See also:
2010 MLB Postseason

Texas Rangers

Main article: 2010 Texas Rangers season
Ron Washington led the Rangers to the World Series for the first time in franchise history.

The Rangers and their fans had a long history of futility and disappointment. Enfranchised in 1961 as the second iteration of the Washington Senators, the team only had one season with a winning percentage above .500 out of 11 seasons in Washington, D.C.. The team relocated to Arlington, Texas, for the 1972 season but failed to make the postseason for over 20 years. Despite being 10 games under .500, the Rangers were leading the American League West division on August 12, 1994, when the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike began and the remainder of the season was cancelled. They went on to win three division titles in 1996, 1998, and 1999, but were eliminated by the New York Yankees in the ALDS each time, having only won one game out of all three series combined. The Rangers' last postseason appearance before 2010 was in 1999. At the time, the Rangers were the only team to have never advanced past the first round of the playoffs and one of three (the others being the Seattle Mariners- who are still without a World Series appearance, and the Washington Nationals- who most recently won the World Series in 2019) to have never appeared in the World Series.

Heading into 2010, the Rangers were plagued with off-field issues. During spring training, manager Ron Washington admitted to prior cocaine use and failing a drug test during the 2009 season.[9] Additionally, the team's owner, Tom Hicks, had financial problems dating back to 2008, which culminated in the team declaring bankruptcy in May and being sold to a partnership led by Chuck Greenberg and team president Nolan Ryan in August.

In the offseason,

Joaquín Árias to the New York Mets in exchange for Jeff Francoeur
.

The Rangers spent most of the season in first place in the

Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Seattle Mariners failing to live up to expectations by ESPN critics. They took first place for good on June 8, following a brief one-day stint in first place by the Angels, and finished the season with a 90–72 record, nine games ahead of the second-place Oakland Athletics. Their .556 winning percentage
was the lowest among all eight 2010 postseason teams.

In the postseason, the third-seeded Rangers faced the top-seeded

wild card
team.

San Francisco Giants

Main article: 2010 San Francisco Giants season
Bruce Bochy sought his first World Series win as a manager after previously appearing in the 1998 series.

Like the Rangers, the Giants and their fans had a long history of futility and disappointment since their move from New York City to San Francisco before the 1958 season. The Giants had won their last World Series against the

Florida Marlins in the NLDS
.

The Giants entered 2010 with a strong pitching staff led by two-time

Florida Marlins
.

The Giants spent much of the early part of the season in second or third place in the National League West standings, trailing the San Diego Padres and on occasion the Los Angeles Dodgers or Colorado Rockies. They entered the All-Star break in fourth place, trailing the Padres, Rockies, and Dodgers. However, they finished July in second place behind the Padres, with a record of 20–8 for the month. On August 26, the Padres began a ten-game losing streak that allowed the Giants to gain some ground. The Giants tied the Padres for first place on September 10 and the two teams traded the top spot for the next 15 days. Then, the Giants took the lead for good on September 26, when they began a four-game winning streak coupled with the Padres' three-game losing streak. The Giants were three games ahead of the Padres going into the final weekend of the season, a three-game set between the two teams that the Padres needed to sweep in order to force a tie-breaker. The Padres won the first two games, but the Giants prevailed in the final game, 3–0, to clinch the franchise's seventh NL West championship.

In the

wild card
winners).

Summary

San Francisco won the series, 4–1.

Game Date Score Location Time Attendance 
1 October 27 Texas Rangers – 7, San Francisco Giants – 11
AT&T Park
 3:36 43,601[10] 
2 October 28 Texas Rangers – 0, San Francisco Giants – 9 AT&T Park 3:17 43,622[11] 
3 October 30 San Francisco Giants – 2, Texas Rangers – 4
Rangers Ballpark in Arlington
 2:51 52,419[12] 
4 October 31 San Francisco Giants – 4, Texas Rangers – 0 Rangers Ballpark in Arlington 3:09 51,920[13] 
5 November 1 San Francisco Giants – 3, Texas Rangers – 1 Rangers Ballpark in Arlington 2:32 52,045[14]

Game summaries

Tim Lincecum, the winning pitcher in Game 1.

Game 1

October 27, 2010 4:59 pm (
AT&T Park in San Francisco, California
61 °F (16 °C), cloudy
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Texas 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 7 11 4
San Francisco 0 0 2 0 6 0 0 3 X 11 14 2
WP: Tim Lincecum (1–0)   LP: Cliff Lee (0–1)
Home runs:
TEX: None
SF: Juan Uribe (1)
Boxscore

The anticipated pitchers' duel between former Cy Young Award winners Cliff Lee and Tim Lincecum never materialized, as Lincecum gave up two early runs and Lee gave up seven runs—six of which were earned—in 4+2⁄3 innings. In the first inning, Lincecum gave up a hit and a walk, respectively, to the first two batters he faced: Elvis Andrus and Michael Young. Andrus scored on a Vladimir Guerrero single that struck Lincecum's leg and bounced into right field. In the second, Bengie Molina singled, advanced to third on a Lee double, and scored on Andrus' sacrifice fly. In the bottom of the third inning, Édgar Rentería reached on an error and advanced to second when Lee hit Andrés Torres. Rentería scored on a Freddy Sanchez RBI double, and Torres scored on a Buster Posey RBI single, tying the game.

In the bottom of the fifth inning, Torres doubled and scored on another Sanchez double. Lee then walked Pat Burrell and gave up back-to-back singles to Cody Ross and Aubrey Huff, which scored Sanchez and Burrell, respectively. Lee was then relieved by Darren O'Day, who gave up a three-run home run to Juan Uribe that increased the Giants' lead to six runs. In the top of the sixth inning, Lincecum struck out the first two batters he faced, but walked Ian Kinsler, who scored on a Molina double. Molina advanced to third on a Mitch Moreland single and scored on a David Murphy single. Lincecum was then removed from the game, having gone 5+2⁄3 innings.

The Giants piled on to their lead in the bottom of the eighth. Rangers reliever Mark Lowe gave up a single to Rentería, who advanced to third on a Vladimir Guerrero fielding error. Rentería then scored on pinch hitter Travis Ishikawa's double. Sanchez singled to score Ishikawa, and advanced to second on another Guerrero error. Lowe recorded one more out before being relieved by Michael Kirkman. Kirkman promptly gave up a single to Nate Schierholtz that scored Sanchez.

In the top of the ninth, Giants reliever

load the bases, and was relieved by closer Brian Wilson. Guerrero hit a sacrifice fly that scored Borbon, and Nelson Cruz doubled to score Andrus and Hamilton, but Kinsler popped out to end the game.[15]

Despite four innings of well-pitched baseball between him and C. J. Wilson (below), Matt Cain (above) emerged as the winning pitcher in Game 2.

Game 2

October 28, 2010 4:57 pm (PDT) at AT&T Park in San Francisco, California 69 °F (21 °C), mostly cloudy
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Texas 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
San Francisco 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 7 X 9 8 0
WP: Matt Cain (1–0)   LP: C. J. Wilson (0–1)
Home runs:
TEX: None
SF: Édgar Rentería (1)
Boxscore

Game 2 started out as a pitching duel between San Francisco's Matt Cain and Texas' C. J. Wilson. Ian Kinsler led off the top of the fifth with a deep fly ball that was perhaps an inch short of a home run. The ball bounced high off the top of the center field wall and back into the field of play, forcing Kinsler to settle for a double. Cain did not allow him to score. In the bottom of the 5th inning, Édgar Rentería hit a home run into left field to give San Francisco a 1–0 lead. Texas threatened in the top of the sixth with back-to-back singles by Michael Young and Josh Hamilton, who both advanced into scoring position on Cain's wild pitch to Nelson Cruz. Cain subsequently got Cruz and Kinsler to pop out, ending the threat. The Giants added a run in the bottom of the seventh when Cody Ross walked, advanced to second base on a groundout by Aubrey Huff, and then scored on a single by Juan Uribe. Wilson was removed from the game with a blister in the seventh inning and was relieved by Darren Oliver. Cain went 7+2⁄3 innings, allowing only four hits. Cain's outing was his third and final of the postseason, a playoff run in which he pitched 21+1⁄3 innings without allowing an earned run.

In the eighth inning, Texas reliever

load the bases, then walked Huff to force in a run, increasing the Giants' lead to 3–0. Mark Lowe then relieved Holland, and walked Uribe to force in another run. Rentería then singled to left field, scoring Ross and Huff to increase the Giants' lead to 6–0. Lowe was then relieved by Michael Kirkman, who gave up a triple to pinch hitter Aaron Rowand, scoring Uribe and Rentería. Rowand then scored on an Andrés Torres double. Guillermo Mota retired the Rangers in the ninth to give the Giants a 2–0 series lead. Nate Schierholtz made a running catch to end the game.[16]

Mitch Moreland hit a three-run home run for the Rangers in Game 3.

Game 3

October 30, 2010 6:00 pm (
Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas
75 °F (24 °C), partly cloudy
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
San Francisco 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 5 1
Texas 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 X 4 8 0
WP: Colby Lewis (1–0)   LP: Jonathan Sánchez (0–1)   Sv: Neftalí Feliz (1)
Home runs:
SF: Cody Ross (1), Andrés Torres (1)
TEX: Mitch Moreland (1), Josh Hamilton (1)
Boxscore

All runs scored in this game were produced by home runs. In the bottom of the second inning, Giants starter Jonathan Sánchez gave up a double to Nelson Cruz and walked Bengie Molina before giving up a three-run home run to Mitch Moreland. In the bottom of the fifth inning, Sánchez yielded a home run to Josh Hamilton, which would be the last batter he would face. Cody Ross and Andrés Torres cut the lead in half with home runs in the seventh and eighth, respectively, off Rangers starter Colby Lewis. Texas closer Neftalí Feliz pitched a perfect ninth to secure the Rangers' first and only victory of the series.[17]

This was the first World Series game won by a team from Texas, as the Houston Astros were swept in 2005.[17]

Aubrey Huff hit the go-ahead two-run home run in the third inning of Game 4.

Game 4

October 31, 2010 7:22 pm (CDT) at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas 75 °F (24 °C), mostly cloudy
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
San Francisco 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 4 8 1
Texas 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
WP: Madison Bumgarner (1–0)   LP: Tommy Hunter (0–1)
Home runs:
SF: Aubrey Huff (1), Buster Posey (1)
TEX: None
Boxscore

In Game 4, the Giants sent 21-year-old rookie Madison Bumgarner to the hill against the Rangers' Tommy Hunter. Bumgarner was brilliant for San Francisco, hurling eight innings while allowing only three hits. Bumgarner allowed only one Ranger to reach second base. A two-run homer by Aubrey Huff in the third inning off Hunter was enough for the Giants win. The other two runs were scored on a run-scoring double by Andrés Torres in the seventh and a home run to dead center by Buster Posey in the eighth. Bumgarner also became the fifth-youngest pitcher to start a World Series game, and the fourth-youngest to win one. Bumgarner and Posey were the first rookie battery to start a World Series game since Spec Shea and Yogi Berra in 1947.[18][19]

Game 5

World Series Most Valuable Player
award.
November 1, 2010 6:58 pm (CDT) at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas 70 °F (21 °C), mostly cloudy
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
San Francisco 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 7 0
Texas 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 1
WP: Tim Lincecum (2–0)   LP: Cliff Lee (0–2)   Sv: Brian Wilson (1)
Home runs:
SF: Édgar Rentería (2)
TEX: Nelson Cruz (1)
Boxscore

Game 5 was a pitching rematch of Game 1 between former Cy Young Award winners Cliff Lee and Tim Lincecum. Down 3–1 in the series, the Rangers needed a win in their ballpark to send the Series back to San Francisco or the Giants would return home as champions. What resulted was the pitching duel anticipated in Game 1. Both Lee and Lincecum pitched six shutout innings, with Lincecum having allowed only two hits and Lee three. In the top of the seventh inning, Cody Ross and Juan Uribe singled back to back to put two runners on with no outs. The next Giant batter, Aubrey Huff, who had never laid down a bunt in his Major League career, successfully executed a sacrifice bunt, one where only a quick play by Lee prevented Huff from reaching base himself. Runners were now at second and third base for Pat Burrell. Lee struck out Burrell (10th time Burrell fanned in the Series), but then allowed a three-run homer on a 2–0 slider by Édgar Rentería to left center field, putting the Giants ahead 3–0.

With one out in the bottom of the seventh, Nelson Cruz had a home run that cut the deficit to 3–1 and broke an 18-inning scoreless streak for the Rangers—their longest drought of the entire season.[20] Lincecum walked the next batter, Ian Kinsler, to bring the tying run to the plate in the bottom of the seventh but struck out the next two Texas batters to end the threat.

Rangers closer Neftalí Feliz pitched two scoreless innings, and Lincecum pitched a 1–2–3 eighth, keeping the score 3–1. Brian Wilson, the 2010 Major League saves champion (48 saves), relieved Lincecum in the bottom of the ninth. Facing the heart of Texas' order, Wilson made quick work of the first two batters, striking Josh Hamilton out looking on four pitches and getting Vladimir Guerrero to hit a grounder to Rentería at short on the first pitch. This brought Nelson Cruz to the plate as the last hope for Texas. Cruz worked the count to 3–2, but Wilson struck him out swinging to seal the championship for San Francisco.

San Francisco outscored Texas 29–12, and shut out the Rangers twice. The Giants became the second team in the 2010 postseason to record two shutouts in a series since the Philadelphia Phillies shut out the Cincinnati Reds twice in the NLDS. The Rangers were the first team to be shut out twice in the World Series since the Baltimore Orioles recorded three shut outs against the 1966 Los Angeles Dodgers en route to a sweep in the World Series. Édgar Rentería's three-run homer was the second World Series championship-clinching hit of his career, the first coming with the Florida Marlins in 1997. Rentería was named the MVP of the series, as he hit .412 (7 for 17) with six RBIs in the Series.[21]

Composite line score

2010 World Series (4–1): San Francisco Giants (NL) beat Texas Rangers (AL).

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
San Francisco Giants 0 0 4 0 7 0 6 12 0 29 42 4
Texas Rangers 1 4 0 0 1 2 1 0 3 12 29 5
Total attendance: 243,607   Average attendance: 48,721
Winning player's share: $317,631.29   Losing player's share: $246,279.55[22]

Broadcasting

Television

In the United States,

field reporter. MLB International syndicated its own telecast of the series, with announcers Gary Thorne and Rick Sutcliffe, to various networks outside the U.S.[23] ESPN America broadcast the series live in the UK and in Europe.[24]
Additionally, the American Forces Network and Canadian Forces Radio and Television carried the games to U.S. and Canadian service personnel stationed around the globe. Fox Deportes carried the Series in Spanish on American cable and satellite TV.

However, many viewers in the New York City and

News Corporation, Fox's parent company, pulled WNYW and WTXF from cable provider Cablevision on October 16 due to a carriage dispute.[25] An agreement between the companies was reached just before Game 3.[25]

Ratings

The overall national

Nielsen rating for the five games was 8.4, which, at the time, tied the 2008 World Series for the event's lowest-ever TV rating (the 2012 World Series would later draw a 7.6 rating to hold the record on its own).[26] Game 4 was beaten in the ratings by a Pittsburgh Steelers–New Orleans Saints game on NBC Sunday Night Football, the first time a World Series game was outdrawn by a regular-season NFL contest airing in the same time slot.[27]

Game
Ratings

(households)
Share

(households)		 American audience
(in millions)
1 8.9 15 15.009
2 8.5 14 14.130
3 6.7 13 11.460
4 9.0 15 15.537
5 8.8 14 14.950

Radio

Jonny Gould and Josh Chetwynd commentating.[29]

Locally, the two teams'

flagship stations broadcast the series with their respective announcing crews. The Giants' English-language broadcasts aired on KNBR (with Dave Flemming, Duane Kuiper, and Mike Krukow announcing) with their Spanish-language broadcasts on KIQI (with Erwin Higueros and Tito Fuentes), while KRLD-FM and AM carried the Rangers' English-language broadcasts (with Eric Nadel and Dave Barnett) and KFLC-AM had their Spanish-language broadcasts (with Eleno Ornelas and Jerry Romo). Due to contractual obligations, the non-flagship stations on the teams' radio networks carried the ESPN Radio broadcasts of the games, although the local broadcasts were also available on XM Satellite Radio and to Gameday Audio subscribers at MLB.com
.

Impact and aftermath

San Francisco's Market Street after the Giants victory parade

The Giants championship marked several firsts, not just for the team, but also for the city of San Francisco and the San Francisco Bay Area.[4]

The firsts with the championship were:

  • Giants:
    • Championship since 1954, when in New York.[4]
    • Championship since moving to San Francisco.[4]
  • City of San Francisco:
  • Bay Area:
    • World Series championship since the Oakland Athletics swept the Giants in 1989.[30]
    • Major sports championship since the 49ers win in Super Bowl XXIX.[31]

In summing up the firsts, Larry Baer, the president of the Giants and a fourth generation resident of San Francisco, said that the team dedicated the championship to "53 years of San Francisco Giants players and coaches and managers...millions of fans."[32]

The Giants held a victory parade on November 3, following the same parade route that the team used when they moved to the city.[33] With some estimates of a million fans lining the route, the parade and rally at City Hall was the largest event ever in the city of San Francisco. Transit agency BART set an all-time single day record for ridership, breaking its previous record by almost 20%.[33]

Replaced by Buster Posey midway during the 2010 season, Bengie Molina was traded to the Rangers, reaching the World Series against the Giants. Despite being on the losing team, Molina received a championship ring, becoming just the sixth player to play for both World Series teams in the same season.[34]

While losing Cliff Lee to free agency to Philadelphia, the Texas Rangers bolstered their line-up by signing third baseman Adrian Beltre. The next season, the Rangers won the AL West title for the second consecutive season, after leading that division for much of the season, eventually making it back to the World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, losing to them in seven games, after being one strike away from the title, twice in Game 6.

The Giants' 2010 World Series championship was followed by two further World Series titles in 2012 and 2014; however, they missed the playoffs in between those championship seasons. Those three World Series titles in five seasons qualified as a dynasty, according to the criteria devised by statistician Bill James.[35]

With the Giants' first World Series championship in San Francisco, the

Stanley Cup finals for the 2015-2016 season, but ultimately lost to the Pittsburgh Penguins
in six games.

Two key contributors from the San Francisco Giants would eventually join the Texas Rangers. Tim Lincecum signed a one-year contract with the Rangers on March 7, 2018. On October 21, 2022, the Rangers hired Bruce Bochy as their new manager, who led the Rangers to their first World Series championship title in his first season as Rangers manager in 2023.

See also

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