Top Plays of the Giants Season so far
While watching Rentaria trot around the bases after his Grand Slam, I wondered where would it rank on the Giants plays this season. So, I give you the 10 plays, and YOU, get to vote on which ones you like the best. Top 5 will be revealed on Tuesday.
In no particular order:
Garko's heroics (2 plays, one slot)
Vote for Pablo:
Ishikawa powers Giants on memorial day
Uribe's Bases Clearing Hit vs M's
And obviously the Rentaria Grand Slam today.
And you can remind me the ones that I missed because pre-Memorial Day, the Giants season was filled with road losses at San Diego and under .500 ball.
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Addendum
Renteria’s first grand slam
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
SCIENCE
hell yes
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
Definitely not one of the top plays but................
Emmanuel Burriss’s relay throw home against Oakland on Cust’s triple’s alley shot
by Carmelballin on Aug 30, 2009 9:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Rowand Catch
9th inning of Sanchez No No. Haven’t been that excited in a long time. Multiple fist pumps followed.
It’s certainly in the top five. I’d add Rent’s second GS, Molina’s shot, Schierholtz inside the park and Uribe’s walk off
Fulfilling your Gus Benusa needs since 2009!
by Giantsfan4life on Aug 30, 2009 6:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Why not have a poll?
Proud father of Juan Carlos Perez. Think Albert Pujols at a position to be determined.
@#$% Juan Uribe. Dios es grande.
pain in the ass
once we will have a top 5, i’ll make a poll
by russian.tank on Aug 30, 2009 7:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Lincecum. Pretty much every 5th day.
That play where he knee slides across the diamond towards 1st, grabs the liner, throws the runner out. sadly I don’t remember the opponent. }:[
by MoreroidsforZito on Aug 31, 2009 10:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Thank you for including Garko's heroics
Overlooked by a lot of people on this board
I choose to watch the Giants try to score runs. Not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
Pablo’s play in Seattle with the bases loaded and Ichiro at the plate. That over the top throw home for the third out was one of the most creative plays I’ve ever seen.
Also Uribe’s bases-clearing double in that same series.
by non sequitur on Aug 30, 2009 7:24 PM PDT up reply actions
I was at all 3 of those games.
Section 314 FTW!
by KingofDucks1987 on Aug 30, 2009 7:30 PM PDT up reply actions
I was at that game
Amazing, amazing play in person. First time I really thought Panda could be an above-average defender.
Of course, in the scheme of things it doesn’t compare to Dirty’s no-no or Rent’s grand slam today.
"If you want to walk, watch a mailman."--Shawon Dunston
"If you want to bunt, bake a cake."--Bruce Bochy
Hey guys
Please list as many great plays as you can, I’m making a highlight video.
Section 314 FTW!
by KingofDucks1987 on Aug 30, 2009 7:14 PM PDT reply actions
All the ones on the list should be on there
They were overooked at the time, but looking back, they were crucial
by russian.tank on Aug 30, 2009 7:19 PM PDT up reply actions
I've already downloaded all of those. Gonna need more tho.
Section 314 FTW!
by KingofDucks1987 on Aug 30, 2009 7:22 PM PDT up reply actions
THE HIT BY URIBE NEEDS TO BE REMEMBERED
I think you guys are forgetting the hit in Seattle by Juan Uribe clearing the bases, I believe. The Giants early on were struggling so mightily for that big hit and Uribe delievered it. I remember how many were considering that as the hit that got the Giants’ season going.
Let’s not forget about that one.
Not going to make this list
…but Ishikawa’s opening day bases clearing triple was pretty awesome also. Jon Miller went totally nuts!
Renteria scores! Lewis scores! Sandoval scores! THEY ALLLLL SCORE!!!! Ishikawa at 3rd with a two out triple.
I don't think you can beat the Sanchez no hitter
I was at the game today and would rank Renteria’s grand slam a pretty close second. Both of them were so unexpected, which helped make them great.
by FluLikeSymptoms on Aug 30, 2009 8:36 PM PDT reply actions
My top 5
1. Renteria’s slam today
2. Dirty’s no-no
3. Rowand’s catch to save the no-no
4. Pablo walkoff vs. Nats
5. Vote for Pablo
The very bad man traded my son...So now I'd like you all to meet my new son, Ryan "Aaron" Garko...Dammit it's just not the same!
What about Emmanuel Burriss’ diving stop-and-flip in Washington to save runs and preserve Randy Johnson’s 300th win? That was a sweet play.
"If you want to walk, watch a mailman."--Shawon Dunston
"If you want to bunt, bake a cake."--Bruce Bochy
I was just going to mention this
That was an incredible play
Also……….
At home against Oakland: Oakland had a runner on first and Cust hit it into triples alley and Shierholtz throws to Burriss cutting off and Burriss’s relay throw (absolute seed) home gunning the runner out
by Carmelballin on Aug 30, 2009 9:44 PM PDT up reply actions

"Trust me: If I’m feeling lousy at the plate like that, I’m not just going to walk up there with bases loaded and get a hit because I’m some great clutch hitter." - Mr. F!
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Not the most important play but one of my favorites
Velez upending suckit russell martin.
Adopted Giant: Henry Sosa
And celebrating the achievements of others' adoptees, Joey Martinez and Nate Schierholtz
Technically speaking a no hitter isn’t a “play”, so I voted for the “Edgarand Slam”
(How come the “Big Money Shot” isn’t in the poll?)
"We're in this thing!" My adopted Giant: "Raptor Jesus" Guzman, "Sweet Jesus" Guzman and Jesus H. Guzman.
How about the strikeout to end the no hitter?
"Trust me: If I’m feeling lousy at the plate like that, I’m not just going to walk up there with bases loaded and get a hit because I’m some great clutch hitter." - Mr. F!
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I'd add
- Lincecum 15 K’s
- Molina Clobbered by sausages
It's hard NOT to vote for Uribe's walkoff
Since it was against the dodgers.
I choose to watch the Giants try to score runs. Not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
at least it was a moonshot, so we could all enjoy it as it arched into the bleachers.
Little OT, but did anyone see the play that same umpireing crew blew in Oakland the next series? Jebus, that is pathetic. I still want to see the review process for those umps, and how they are disiplined for such pathetic performences game after game.
I asked around the clubhouse, and learned about the Top Lays of the Giants' Season:
10. Zito’s Asian Buffet – (4/29) Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese ladies lead him to their hotel room near McCovey’s and proceed to shake out his arm for him.
9. Panda’s First White Chick – (5/12) Hits walk-off vs. Washington’s Joe Beimel and proceeds to nail Joe Beimel’s road beef.
8. Rowand Crashes Into Clea Duvall – (5/10) Exhausted after 13 innings, buzzed off PBR and goaded by Randy Winn, Rowand beds quirky-looking actress Clea Duvall, but the next day proclaims that he “three-holed” Claire Danes. Ah, beer goggles.
7. Poo-ribe – (4/17) After losing six in a row, Bengie Molina tries to rally the troops with a food-eating contest. The catch? Everything has to be blended. Fred Lewis manages to drink a can of spam. Uribe takes on the challenge of drinking a blender full of Frito Lays. What he didn’t know was that Molina had spiked the blended chips with a laxative.
6. Sergi-Ho – (7/18) Romo takes one for the team and beds the hideous (as Fred Lewis describes her, "She looked like Samuel L. Jackson, but with Fergie’s d***") Head of Room Service at the team’s Pittsburgh hotel, securing a night of free and unlimited alcohol delivered to their rooms.
5. Nate’s Date – (8/05) A French chick who spoke zero English and had eight hot friends who also spoke no English. They didn’t even like baseball.
4. Velez’s Virgin – (6/23) When Kevin Frandsen mass e-mails the team with a link to a girl auctioning her virginity to the highest bidder, everybody believes it’s a gimmick or a scam… until Eugenio Velez runs into her at the mall. What begins as an innocent encounter soon leads to another mass e-mail from Kevin Frandsen, an apology stating that the auction has ended before the original closing date.
3. Richie At Bat – (8/24) Molina’s aunt Dulcinea sends him a box of mystical herbs that can make anyone feel young again, if only for a few hours. Troubled by recent problems in the bedroom, Aurilia buys some of the herb from Bengie in preparation for his anniversary. Unfortunately, the herb works too well and Aurilia winds up on the DL, but the sounds from the trainers’ room won’t soon be forgotten.
2. Bowker? I Hardly Know Her – (7/12) Bowker and Schierholtz go on a double blind date set up by Rachel Aurilia. After Nate learns that his date doesn’t believe the theory of evolution, he leaves Bowker and his gal alone. According to Bowker, his date was an insatiable sex demon, who wanted nothing from him other than pleasure. After ten straight hours of bedding her, a delusional, exhausted, delighted, enraptured Bowker proposed to her, a profound mistake any rookie might make. But, in one of the most fortuitous bounces in baseball history, the woman turns him down and disappears forever.
1. Grand Slam – (8/29) In an effort to patch up their rocky marriage, Renteria’s wife gives him a 24-hour pass to have as many conquests as he wants. He is so excited by this offer that instead of finding new road beef, he goes back to women from his past. This walk down memory lane makes him feel like a kid again and, the next day, he hits a four-run homer against the Rockies.
1A
Frandsen and Bowker sleep with undisclosed upper managements wife. Lewis lies about his knowledge of it and rides the pine with his meet.
by MoreroidsforZito on Sep 1, 2009 8:05 PM PDT up reply actions

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