San Francisco Giants Win 2014 World Series

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The Giants beat the Kansas City Royals 3-2 to win the World Series at Kauffman Stadium on Wednesday night in an action-packed, tense, crackerjack of a ballgame that featured both teams’ managers using their top-end relief pitchers to turn a back-and-forth early outing into a scoreboard replete with zeroes in the late innings.

At the center of it all – at the center of everything this postseason – stood Bumgarner, the 25-year-old from North Carolina who in his five major league seasons already has established himself as one of the great pitchers in postseason history. His numbers this October defy belief – 1.03 ERA in 52 2/3 innings – and Bumgarner saved his finest of his series MVP performance for a five-inning lockdown in Game 7 that earned him a save and his Giants the victory.

Working on just two days’ rest after throwing a four-hit shutout in Game 5, Bumgarner worked his way around a leadoff single to retire the Royals on a swinging strikeout by Lorenzo Cain in his first inning. From there, he cruised: a 1-2-3 frame in the sixth, another in the seventh, and the eighth, and finally the ninth, when he yielded a two-out single to Alex Gordonthat center fielder Gregor Blanco compounded with a two-base error.

With Gordon on third, Salvador Perez popped a two-strike pitch into foul territory. Pablo Sandoval squeezed it for the final out, a capper to one of the most impressive postseason runs in baseball history.

Bumgarner was in the game for as long as he was only because of Giants starter Tim Hudson’s struggles. The starting pitchers lasted a combined five innings, with Giants manager Bruce Bochy yanking Hudson after a shaky 1 2/3 in which he allowed a pair of runs on a Gordon double and an Omar Infante sacrifice fly. It knotted the game at two after a pair of Giants sacrifice flies in the top of the second off Royals starter Jeremy Guthrie staked San Francisco to an early advantage and quieted the decibel-smashing levels of the 40,535-person crowd.

Multiple Fans Shot & Stabbed As Fans Celebrate Giants World Series Win

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Every-time a professional sports team wins a championship you have real fans who just want to celebrate but you also have idiots mixed in the crowd who have other things on their mind.

Last night, the San Francisco Giants defeated the Kansas City Royals in game seven of the World Series, giving the Giants their third championship in five years.

You would think people in the Bay Area would be used to these big celebrations by now, but the big wins also bring out the bad in people.

There were multiple arrests in the streets last night but more importantly multiple people were shot and stabbed during the celebrations.

None of the victims died from their wounds but it just goes to show you there are not many occasions where people come together and truly have a good time without nonsense happening.

Police were being quiet on the details regarding the shootings, but some reports had it as there were people with intentions of robbing possibly drunk fans and when it didn’t go so easily the shots rang out. The shootings that happened during the night did not appear to be connected to each other.

Police were also assaulted by people hurling bottles as they tried to disperse the crowds that had basically taken over parts of the city.