Favorite Game of the 2010 Playoffs? (With Poll)

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Game one NLDS, Game four NLCS, Game two WS and Game five WS are all right there. I think I’m going with game four, NLCS.

Because they did something no other team has done as the San Francisco Giants.

Game 1 of the WS will always be my favorite cuz we were there and they actually won a damn game.

Hands down. Game 4 was a pivotal game and the way we won it was just so sweet. I always love walk-off wins but that one is by FAR the best one I’ve ever experienced.

But I voted for WS Game 2. Matty was just….phenomenal. And to see him finally, finally get his moment on a such a big stage…I…wow.

That said, I could also have gone with WS Games 1 and 3 (1 for Freddy, 3 for MadBum), NLCS game 6 for Affeldt and the bullpen, and NLDS Game 1 for Timmy.

Hard choice.

It was the win that made me realize that the Giants were going to win the World Series.

It also had my favorite post-season moments (favorite because they came from my favorite players).
Posey and Huff hit homeruns.
Torres hit two doubles and had a stolen base.
And Madison Bumgarner pitched a great game despite only being 22 years old.

I voted game 5 WS, but game 2 of the NLCS was one of my favorites. Matt Fucking Cain dominated and it was long overdue.

I liked the game where the Giants won the world series. NLCS game 4 is next

Because I felt like that was the game where we really sent a message to baseball.

We went into the house of the “favorites”, and we beat their best pitcher in front of their fans.

I walked to a restaurant to watch it on a big screen.
Stretched out two appetizers and a poboy, eyes locked on the game.
Lincecum came in and pitched out of the stretch like it wasn’t even a question,
Then he gave up the hits and the place went quiet.
Wilson in, and he doesn’t dominate like I remember him now..
Then Howard strikes out looking and the place blows up.
I took a knee right there like I was leaving the pew at Mass.
I don’t think I had any doubts after that.
Giddiness, anxiety, moments of unthinking dread took me,
But I think I knew then.

i have so many….

NLDS Game 3 – I was at my brother’s house and we were jumping up like little kids. Hugs and lot of hi 5s that evening. I really thought we were gonna lose that one.

NLCS Game 4 – I was at the game with camera in hand. I watched this game with my wife and we had a blast. Love walking down the ramp and everyone did there chants from uuuuribe or one more win one more win….the best 20 min walk!!!

NLCS Game 6 – Another nail biter. But when Wilson struck out Howard…I felt chills when it was 3rd strike….I was like “we are back in the series!!!”

WS Games – Love em all except game 3, snoozer! HAHA. Mad Bum the 21 yr old sensation was awesome in game 4. And of coarse game 5….basically it free us from 54 years of waiting.

In conclusion….I dont know who to pick. Maybe we should do a poll on your favorite Lockerroom T-Shirt? :D

Ok after much thinking…..Game 5 of the WS.

But the moment I knew this was the team of destiny was Kinsler’s off-the-top-of-the-wall double. I had never seen anything happen like that in a MLB game. That was the first moment when I thought to myself, “Holy shit, they might actually win this thing.”

Game 6 against the Phillies for overall game, because it was a demonstration that every single person on the team wanted this thing to happen.

I went with NLCS game 4 simply because it had the most crazy emotional swings, and the sweet relief when we won was indescribable.

Game 6 NLCS, b/c immeditally following the game I got tons of text’s saying “Rangers in 5”. Also , nothing like serving humble pie to a phillie fan.

I have to represent this one, apparently. This was hyped—with fair reason—as one of the great postseason pitching matchups ever, and it did not disappoint Halladay came off the no-hitter, and Timmy had pitched probably the greatest game of his career in the NLDS game one. The entire ESPN universe and every state but Oregon chose the Phils to win the series in five games. All those “Cut Yer Hair” signs and bad voodoo from the overamped Philly crowd. Cody Motherfucking Ross.

Never have I experienced a WTF moment like the 8th inning of that game. I lost my voice after that game which was unfortunate because I had to interview an intern the following morning. Turns out he was at the game too and didn’t have much of a voice afterward. We ended up rescheduling and now my company has hired him on full time.

Great swing from being an on-edge, “torture” level, game to guaranteed win. Plus Mota finished the 9th.

Such a great team effort, really showed how the Giants never give up.

The bullpen was awesome that game too.

Game 5 of the World Series was obviously more emotional, given what the ending meant.

Game 4 of the NLCS was perhaps more “dramatic” and given that it was at home, the Giants fans played a huge role in willing their team to victory.

But Game 6 of the NLCS was fucking crazy. Remember, Phillies had won Game 5, they were at home, and now they’ve got Dirty on the ropes not even three innings into the game…they were on the verge of blowing things open and forcing a Game 7, which frankly, I doubt the Giants would have won. Affeldt comes in out of nowhere and shuts down the big hitters for two innings. MadBum gets knocked around a bit but keeps the Phillies scoreless for two innings. Javier Lopez gets the job done. Tim Lincecum gets a crucial out, and then Brian Wilson comes in for a five-out save. Giants “bullpen” that night: 7 innings, five hits, two walks, NO RUNS. Oh, and Jazz Hands hits his first opposite-field home run basically in forever.

It was tortuous, I lost years off my life in those three hours, and yet I’ll never forget what a great team performance it was.

Even if we’d lost that one, we were coming home with two more to play. There just weren’t as many nerves or thoughts of doom while watching that one and Timmy immediately showed that he was Big Time Timmy-Jim again.

Besides, that one had the best post-game in the history of the world.

but for me its Matt Cain in Game 2 of the World Series.

Dude was awesome.

I chose game 5 of the World Series, but they’re all great to me.

The Rangers had just one the 3rd game in rather convincing fashion, and although the giants were in the game still, it seemed to me as if the Rangers had gotten much of the momentum back and were primed to sweep at home and send the series back to San Francisco with a Rangers lead.

Then, Madison Bumgarner happened. The dude put on one of the best pitching performances i have ever seen. In The World Series, at age 21. 21 years old and he pitched with the most poise I’ve seen a giant pitch with pretty much all year.

It was a gem of a game, and you gotta love Huff’s classy Homerun and Torres and Posey magic. Just beautiful.

It absolutely gave me faith that baseball is the best game in the world, and that it means everything to me.

It was the only clincher at home and the crowd high-fiving lap around the field was incredible

And it’s nice to relive the magical run. I wrote in favor of NLCS Game 1, but just reading these makes me stunned yet gain what the Giants accomplished. Kudos to Josh from Hollywood’s defense of Cain’s outings—identified exactly how I felt watching them (like a proud parent), although I hadn’t actually been able to find words for it.

Purely selfish … I was there … it was sad to see the Texas bullpen roll over like that (it was!) but Matt Can was invincible and we just kept scoring runs, and it was the highlight of my baseball life and probably always will be.

I feel like rec-cing every single one of these comments.

This is probably the best playoff game I have ever watched. Bochy’s managing, benches cleared, Gardner keeping his head, Victorino ALMOST going Willie Mays on us, Uribe, and WTF is Howard taking a 2 strike pitch which is THAT CLOSE, but thank you very much!!! And the Giants winning the pennant!!!

I agree with above assertions that if the Phillies had won that one, game 7 would have been upsetting.

LCS game 4 and LDS game 3 in that order. These were the 2 games where the bats won it. get the big hit, or lose the game. and when have the Giants ever gotten the big hit. Only times we were on the brink of losing control of a series. There was actually doubt in these 2 games unlike all the other games where pitching just mowed every one down. The kind of doubt that comes from the years of heartbreak that always holds true. And damnit did the giants ever come thru. We were one out away from being down 2-1 to the Braves, and youu had to be thinking about the Mets and Marlins series. In LCS game 4, we had to come back, only to let Philly tie it, and the odds had to be against us pushing one across before Philly did, because you had to be sure we used our “one time” on the Pablo double. The other team always got the big hit and that’s how it’s always been. Once in a while we get a Brian Johnson homer,but we have to live through a Finley grand slam, a “this is not good folks”, a Speizio homer, a Glaus double, a Benny Agbayani homer. When we want that big hit, and need that big hit, we get thrown out at home and Pudge holds on, we get one-hit by Bobby Jones, we make noise but fall short against the Cubs. Heck we just saw Ankiel do it. then Fred Flinstone himself Eric Hinske gets us. Those 2 games proved to me that something different was going on. We finally got the big hit.

I went to the only 2 home losses in the NLDS and NLCS so every win was the best win ever up to winning the WS. Game 1 in retrospect because that was Timmy in playoff action showing he deserved his 2 Cy Youngs and that the Giants were more than capable of winning tight games in the post season which proved to be a very valuable attribute down the stretch.

When we beat Doc and won game 1, I remember allowing myself to think for the first time that we actually could win the world series with this team.

After such a sloppy div series, it was the kind of statement that the team needed to be considered a real threat.

It’s the only one I went too and even though we lost I loved the atmosphere of a potential clinching game. My seats were awesome, The Steve Perry moment was cool. The only bad thing was crying all the way home that night.

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NLCS Game 6 for me.

I was actually cheering harder at the end of that game than any other game. When Uribe hit that Sac fly to end it, you knew this team was for real, and maybe the prognosticators were wrong…

It would be like trying to rank my children by how much I love each of them.