I think some missed the **" wasn't that good "** part :) Guys like Morse, Wilson, Panda, and especially Scutaro, were actually pretty good to elite all-stars at times.
Tauchman for the Pujols robbery, Marco Scutaro, Cody Ross, Michael Morse, Gregor Blanco, and Nate Schierholtz. And when I say "not that good" I mean that they weren't really star players or in the public eye. One of the best things about the championship era was that we had a ton of guys step up at the right time. However, I'm happy to be wrong about any of these players
Andres Torres in 2010, was in the middle of everything I felt like. Reading these comments of different names is taking me down memory lane for those magical championships. 2010 especially
I rewatched that catch more than any other highlight of 2021. The dodgers broadcast was especially epic—just a spectacular call.
“It was ***out of here*** and he brought it back”
100% on Strickland. Not Shark's fault at all. Morse's injury is the biggest damage that Strickland ever did. I wish Morse could be compensated by Strickland for his career ending prematurely.
You could *feel* how that breathed life into the team AND the fan base. Unreal moment but bummer he couldn’t put it together as an offensive contributor outside a couple other shining moments.
My Ishikawa copy pasta:
In baseball there are certain moments that transcend time and space. In fiction they would be derided as tropes or tired story lines. One could read a story with an unlikely hero and mock it as lazy writing. Here’s the thing; baseball is built on the most unlikely occurrences happening—the David beating the Goliath. We watch this game as much with our hearts as we do with our eyes—and hear it as much with our souls as we do with our ears.
If you sat down and wrote the script for the 2014 Giants your editor would most certainly reject it as emotional tripe. But we lived it, those moments define the triumph of the human spirit. Case in point Travis Ishikawa. Unheralded during the regular season. Playing out of position. A player that was notch below journeyman is plopped into the storybook plot. A player that battled injuries and self confidence; who battled out of the minor leagues to get to the penultimate stage of the baseball season.
There, in the batters box, I can imagine him thinking about all of those minor league games. The toil and tribulation of bus rides that last too long and pay that doesn’t go far enough. About all those times he doubted himself and was doubted by others. Those times, walking back into the clubhouse, where a coach or manager was waiting next to his locker to tell him his dream was going to be delayed, again. The shrug and smile that masked his disappointment. The knowing looks of teammates. The rote gestures of goodbye. The mechanical statements suggesting he’d be back; his deep dark thoughts that this was the end of the road. That sickening feeling in his stomach when he felt part of his body breakdown, knowing that the finite time he had to play the game was moving inevitably to the end.
And then, in a single swing—a physical movement he has performed countless times—catharsis. A solitary moment where he didn’t doubt himself. Where 42,000 people let him know that the before was best left in the past. Where the deceptively difficult act of hitting a round ball with a round bat provided renewed hope that everything in the universe is sometimes right. A moment when the “business” is forgotten about. Truly some hits mean more than others.
This reminds me of the final stanza in Walt Whitman’s poem O Me! O life! Where he muses about the meaning of life:
That you are here—that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
Ishikawa contributed a verse and completed our powerful play. Out of the infinite possibilities that baseball presents on every pitch, on that night, under the lights, a home run was the only possible outcome.
Edit: a word or two. Edit: ok a couple more words.
I used to hate Ishikawa. I told my dad at some point during the 2014 regular season “he sucks, he always seems to strike out when it matters the most”. We were at NLCS game 5. I have never been happier to eat my own words
Yup. It sure was.
It was a close game all day. Angels scored what they thought was the game winner, before it was overturned. Then our boys put up 7 runs in the 13th and I drove 5 hours back to Phoenix with a smile on my face.
If I remember correctly, that was the series where Belt got hurt on the base path.
That was the first game I took my son to, as a 1 year old. He napped for the second half and we stayed for the whole thing. Yaz took Shohei deep, Gausman struck out Shohei, Belt got injured, wild game.
That’s a good first game for your son. Definitely one of the best that I’ve seen in person. Hopefully he wasn’t too hot. I was sweating through my clothes in the right field bleachers. But I was wearing all black that day, so…🥵
We moved into the shaded standing room part of the concourse, then an usher who had been making faces to my kid had us sit in the wheelchair accessible seats when the people left. Perks of having a cute kid.
But that is kind of the opposite of the post. Plus that WS clutch up then hurts your point. Like I will forever love Barry Zito for putting down his guitar and flying in on his majestic unicorn to save us in the 2012 playoffs.
My point was simply that his all-star years were not the years we got from him. That said, you do have a point about Renteria. Personally I'd go for Ishikawa or Ross
Torres, Schierholtz, Zito (sorry).
Brandon Belt
2021 was a crazy season
Juaquin Arias
I think some missed the **" wasn't that good "** part :) Guys like Morse, Wilson, Panda, and especially Scutaro, were actually pretty good to elite all-stars at times.
Pat Burrell.
Andres Torres and Gregor Blanco 👌🏼
Shinjo. We didn’t say what TYPE of legend
No.
Marco Scutaro!
Wow this sub has changed. I'd never think that the GOAT Joaquin Arias would be left out of this list, yet here we are.
Tauchman for the Pujols robbery, Marco Scutaro, Cody Ross, Michael Morse, Gregor Blanco, and Nate Schierholtz. And when I say "not that good" I mean that they weren't really star players or in the public eye. One of the best things about the championship era was that we had a ton of guys step up at the right time. However, I'm happy to be wrong about any of these players
Andres Torres chucking cinderblocks over his head in cut off jeans is LEGENDARY.
Darren Ford. We don't win the division in 2010 without him.
Carlos Correa on the Giants
Matt Duffy
Mark Bellhorn
Danny LeMaster
Tyler Colvin. Jarrett Parker. Marlon Byrd
Andres Torres in 2010, was in the middle of everything I felt like. Reading these comments of different names is taking me down memory lane for those magical championships. 2010 especially
John dowd
Of course not
He had a legendary moment but I wouldn't say he's a legend
Nate Shierholtz, the dinger off the metal roofing edge in right
Brian Wilson Ishikawa Panda Tauschman
That catch ❤️
No
Sid Bream
Brian Johnson
Yep.
Nate shierholtz
Legend are made of moments. Not careers.
Yusmeiro petit
Cody ross
Brooks Conrad was a Giants legend
ForeverGiant maybe, legend no.
Barry Zito
This is so true
Who?
Bruh
Too much?
Jake Delhomme 🙂
Cody ROSSS
Nate the great!
Aaron Boone
Ishikawa. I’d buy his jersey if I ever saw it in the dugout store.
It’s Travis Ishikawa!
Connor Gillespie
Velez 😍
Hahaha I was gonna post this
Nate Schierholtz
[Nate Schierholtz had a cannon](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zx63ETp5ds)
He made all those throws look easy.
I wrote my reply then saw yours. Completely second this one!
Chris Burke 2005 Astros
Michael Morse
Justin Verlander
Yankee legend
Kelby
Scutaro was special... I'll never forget how locked in he was that year. One of my favorite Giant legends
Michael Morse
Cody Ross, Scutaro, Juan Uribe
I mean he did single handedly win 3 games in 2021
Blanco. Perfect game catch made him a legend
I kinda feel like Blanco is too good for this. He legitimately had a good career as a Giant, with 8 WAR in a 4 year stretch.
I think both are right. He’s too good a player to count, but maybe not as good as his legendary status. He’s one of my favorite Giants still.
I rewatched that catch more than any other highlight of 2021. The dodgers broadcast was especially epic—just a spectacular call. “It was ***out of here*** and he brought it back”
Brian Johnson
The catch that changed the season. Forever Giant Tauchman.
Tauchman and Ishikawa are great answers but can we give a shout-out to Mike Morse?
His pinch hit Home run is so legendary but it gets a little overshadowed by what came after. But to come in, in that spot, and do THAT? Nuts
Cody ross, Freddy Sanchez
Unfortunate shark victim
I blame Strickland
100% on Strickland. Not Shark's fault at all. Morse's injury is the biggest damage that Strickland ever did. I wish Morse could be compensated by Strickland for his career ending prematurely.
I agree completely. I don’t think there’s a guy who wore the uniform that I hate more than Strickland. Just an absolutely disgusting person
Mike Morse is very under appreciated for his Giants career
Yes he really is
JT Snow: never really an elite 1b offensively but played here forever was a great defender etc
Javy Lopez
Absolutely. Division isn’t ours if not for him in 21.
That catch he made vs LA was a legendary moment if nothing else
Tauchman was the reason we won the NL West in 2021. If he doesn’t make that catch the team would have been absolutely deflated against LA
You could *feel* how that breathed life into the team AND the fan base. Unreal moment but bummer he couldn’t put it together as an offensive contributor outside a couple other shining moments.
The answer is Ishikawa
The Panda; amazing Giant but not good with Boston, Atlanta or Detroit
He had a solid start to the season with Atlanta. There was a week or two where every time he come up as a pinch hitter he homered it seemed like.
But he was really good with the Giants. Good for 20 HRs 80 RBIs and 300ish BA
Also didn’t he have like a 0.00 era pitching
They said “amazing Giant” already. No “but” really necessary
Never mind, he only hit 20 bombs twice and 80 RBIs once. Still good for ATT park/Oracle park
Travis Ishikawa
Absolute legend, caught one of his foul balls as well!
Or Morse Both “proved it” in the same game too
Morse, Scutaro, Ishikawa..... BLANCO! Everyday players. With every bit of legendary ability.
Dan Uggla He did get a ring from us right
My Ishikawa copy pasta: In baseball there are certain moments that transcend time and space. In fiction they would be derided as tropes or tired story lines. One could read a story with an unlikely hero and mock it as lazy writing. Here’s the thing; baseball is built on the most unlikely occurrences happening—the David beating the Goliath. We watch this game as much with our hearts as we do with our eyes—and hear it as much with our souls as we do with our ears. If you sat down and wrote the script for the 2014 Giants your editor would most certainly reject it as emotional tripe. But we lived it, those moments define the triumph of the human spirit. Case in point Travis Ishikawa. Unheralded during the regular season. Playing out of position. A player that was notch below journeyman is plopped into the storybook plot. A player that battled injuries and self confidence; who battled out of the minor leagues to get to the penultimate stage of the baseball season. There, in the batters box, I can imagine him thinking about all of those minor league games. The toil and tribulation of bus rides that last too long and pay that doesn’t go far enough. About all those times he doubted himself and was doubted by others. Those times, walking back into the clubhouse, where a coach or manager was waiting next to his locker to tell him his dream was going to be delayed, again. The shrug and smile that masked his disappointment. The knowing looks of teammates. The rote gestures of goodbye. The mechanical statements suggesting he’d be back; his deep dark thoughts that this was the end of the road. That sickening feeling in his stomach when he felt part of his body breakdown, knowing that the finite time he had to play the game was moving inevitably to the end. And then, in a single swing—a physical movement he has performed countless times—catharsis. A solitary moment where he didn’t doubt himself. Where 42,000 people let him know that the before was best left in the past. Where the deceptively difficult act of hitting a round ball with a round bat provided renewed hope that everything in the universe is sometimes right. A moment when the “business” is forgotten about. Truly some hits mean more than others. This reminds me of the final stanza in Walt Whitman’s poem O Me! O life! Where he muses about the meaning of life: That you are here—that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. Ishikawa contributed a verse and completed our powerful play. Out of the infinite possibilities that baseball presents on every pitch, on that night, under the lights, a home run was the only possible outcome. Edit: a word or two. Edit: ok a couple more words.
I used to hate Ishikawa. I told my dad at some point during the 2014 regular season “he sucks, he always seems to strike out when it matters the most”. We were at NLCS game 5. I have never been happier to eat my own words
….hits one into right!
The Giants win the pennant!
He was a legend for about 2 weeks between the Pujols catch and his grand slam.
Didn’t he hit a three run homer in San Diego?
I watched him hit one in Anaheim as well.
I was at the Anaheim one and the San Diego one, man loved to mash for me
Was that the 13 inning game?
Yup. It sure was. It was a close game all day. Angels scored what they thought was the game winner, before it was overturned. Then our boys put up 7 runs in the 13th and I drove 5 hours back to Phoenix with a smile on my face. If I remember correctly, that was the series where Belt got hurt on the base path.
That was the first game I took my son to, as a 1 year old. He napped for the second half and we stayed for the whole thing. Yaz took Shohei deep, Gausman struck out Shohei, Belt got injured, wild game.
That’s a good first game for your son. Definitely one of the best that I’ve seen in person. Hopefully he wasn’t too hot. I was sweating through my clothes in the right field bleachers. But I was wearing all black that day, so…🥵
We moved into the shaded standing room part of the concourse, then an usher who had been making faces to my kid had us sit in the wheelchair accessible seats when the people left. Perks of having a cute kid.
That catch tho
I was there for it and it was a very, very special moment in my history of being a Giants fan at Dodger Stadium.
If the Giants don't have Tauchman in 2021, they don't win the division.
Though I was only watching it on TV, that is one I vividly remember. Plus the look on Pujol's face was priceless.
TWICE
\#foreverrocky
Naw Cody Ross .. Edgar Renteria for a close 2nd.
Can't believe nobody has mentioned Connor Gilaspie. Dude was clutch in the 2016 playoffs even though it didn't end well.
This is a good one too. You could hear a pin drop in NY after his 3-run HR.
Young Renteria had multiple 30-40 SB seasons and was a 5 time All Star.
Yah but none with us. Renteria was a great player, he was a decent to ok player for us. But he helped us win a World Series
But that is kind of the opposite of the post. Plus that WS clutch up then hurts your point. Like I will forever love Barry Zito for putting down his guitar and flying in on his majestic unicorn to save us in the 2012 playoffs.
My point was simply that his all-star years were not the years we got from him. That said, you do have a point about Renteria. Personally I'd go for Ishikawa or Ross
Ishi the Killer all the way
Ssory Doc
Ya but he was at least a key component to the 2010 WS. I think for that reason alone he gets a pass there
Maybe I am misrembwring but I thought Ross was damn good in 2010?
He was also good in 2008 and 2009 with the Marlins, then good again in 2012 with Boston.