The underdog Giants went on to sweep the series in four straight, despite the Indians having won a then-American League record 111 games that year.

( The " torture " slogan was coined on the April 21 edition of Kruk and Kuip on Baseball on KNBR radio, following a game which the Giants lost 1 – 0 despite a 1-hitter thrown by Jonathan Sanchez.

On August 25, despite overcoming a 10 – 1 deficit in the 5th inning, the Giants lost to the Reds in extra innings at home to drop 6. 5 games behind San Diego.

The Giants had narrowly defeated Denver during the regular season, forcing four turnovers in a 19-16 win despite being outgained in total yards 405 to 262.

This happened in, when Dusty Baker managed the National League team despite having moved from the National League champion San Francisco Giants to the Chicago Cubs.

Players who played in the NFL in 1972 and earlier were allowed to keep their old numbers, although New York Giants linebacker Brad Van Pelt wore number 10 despite entering the league in 1973 ( Linebackers had to be numbered in the 50s at the time ; since 1984 they may now wear numbers in the 50s or 90s.

But because AT & T Park, like its predecessor, is built right on San Francisco Bay, cold summer fog and winter jackets in July are still not unusual at Giants games, despite the higher average temperature.

In 2002 Huddersfield Giants remained a full-time professional teams despite playing in the Northern Ford Premiership.

On the bright side, though the ' 06 Redskins boasted the league's 4th best rushing offense despite losing starting tailback Clinton Portis to injury and saw continued improvement from young starter Jason Campbell, who capped off 2006 with a strong performance against the Giants, in which he posted a QB rating of 96. 2.

Fregosi was hired away from the San Francisco Giants ( where he had been serving as a special assistant ) as the new manager for the Blue Jays in, and was replaced after the 2000 season despite the fact that the team finished in third place and above. 500 in each of his two years in Toronto.

Strange administers it to Batman after the Giants capture him, saying it will work in 18 hrs, but despite being knocked out for over 17 hrs, the Caped Crusader saves himself by creating a drug that prevented any abnormal secretions from the pituitary gland with minutes to spare, after tricking two of the monsters into killing each other.

This was by far his best season, for although the Giants were perennial contenders during this time, injury and wildness kept him from becoming a star despite being the opening day pitcher three years running.

In his first five seasons, despite earning a Super Bowl ring with the 1986 Giants, he played sparingly, rarely making an appearance as he was the third string quarterback behind both Simms and Jeff Rutledge.

The signing of Kevin Brown from Huddersfield Giants with a transfer fee in June for the 2013 season showed signs of real ambition for the club, and despite proving critics wrong by notching up an impressive 12 points in their first season back, the very poor start to the season proved crucial as Widnes finished at the bottom of the 2012 Superleague table on points difference alone.

In 2007, Burress was the Giants ' top receiver with 70 receptions for 1, 025 yards, despite not practicing all season because of his ailing ankle.

In week 12 in 2005 at the Seahawks however, Feely failed to connect on 3 consecutive potential game-winning field goals, and the Giants lost 24-21 despite compiling 490 yards total offense.

He left Notre Dame after graduating in 1985 despite having one season of eligibility remaining ( due to the redshirt status of his sophomore season ) and was selected in the fourth round (# 100 overall ) of the 1985 NFL Draft by the New York Giants.

He was released during the 2000 season of the Washington Redskins on December 4, 2000 following a 9 – 7 loss to the New York Giants where this dropped them to 7 – 6 on the year despite starting off with a 6 – 2 record.

However, the Giants rewarded Sabean with a two-year contract extension through the 2009 season following the All-Star break despite the Giants being in last place in the National League West.

Instead, that game marked the start of a four game winning streak to end the season which included a game where the Giants eliminated the Eagles from playoff contention ( despite a win over the Cowboys ) with a win over the New York Jets.

For instance, the 1958 " Greatest Game Ever Played " between the Baltimore Colts and New York Giants was unavailable to New York fans despite the sellout.

In the Giants first home playoff game since 1962, despite the fact that the 49ers recorded 362 yards of total offense, with receiver Dwight Clark catching 8 passes for 120 yards, the Giants defense limited San Francisco to only one field goal the entire game, a 21-yard field goal by Ray Wersching in the 2nd quarter.

With the great Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, and the defeat of the Copperheads in the Ohio election in the fall, Lincoln maintained a strong base of party support and was in a strong position to redefine the war effort, despite the New York City draft riots.

However, in a decision of great historic significance, the Persian king Darius the Great decided that, despite successfully subduing the revolt, there remained the unfinished business of exacting punishment on Athens and Eretria for supporting the revolt.

In the Philippines, the Commission on the Filipino Language declared all the indigenous languages in the Philippines as dialects despite the great differences between them, as well as the existence of significant bodies of literature in each of the major " dialects " and daily newspapers in some.

In World War II rivals who had combat service in the first great war ( led by Gen. Bernard Montgomery ) sought to denigrate Eisenhower for his previous lack of combat duty, despite his stateside experience establishing a camp, completely equipped, for thousands of troops, and developing a full combat training schedule.

Being granted a banner by the Pope would have been a great honour, but despite the many letters of the popes relating to the crusades, none of them mentions granting a banner to a King of Denmark.

Lord Peter encourages his friend and foil, Chief Inspector Charles Parker, to propose to his sister, Lady Mary Wimsey, despite the great difference in their rank and wealth.

A feature of maritime archaeology is that despite all the material that is lost, there are occasional rare examples of substantial survival, from which a great deal can be learned, due to the difficulties often experienced in accessing the sites.

He compares this situation to that of Alfred Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift, where there was initially great resistance to acceptance despite the strength of the evidence.

Its gross profits were great as well, as they surpassed that of all 13 American colonies combined, up until the 19th century, despite being thousands of times smaller.

Since the dawn of computing, the sorting problem has attracted a great deal of research, perhaps due to the complexity of solving it efficiently despite its simple, familiar statement.

Since then, despite some calls for convergence centred on the structure and agency debate, its methodological, theoretical and topical diversity has spread even more, leading to numerours definitions of social geography and, therefore, contemporary scholars of the discipline identifying a great variety of different social geographies.

Greater good responses to the problem make use of this insight by arguing for existence of goods of great value which God cannot actualize without also permitting evil, and thus that there are evils he cannot be expected to prevent despite being omnipotent.

After October 1956 four books written by Gombrowicz appeared in Poland and they brought him great renown despite the fact that the authorities did not allow the publication of Dziennik ( Diary ).

He offers her huge armies and historic victories, great wealth and great power, and in later seasons his love, offers which she consistently rejects despite being sometimes tempted.

The Fagaceae, or oak family, is a very slow evolving clade compared to other angiosperms, and the patterns of hybridization and introgression in Quercus pose a great challenge to the concept of a species since a species is often defined as a group of “ actually or potentially interbreeding populations which are reproductively isolated from other such groups .” By this definition, many species of Quercus would be lumped together according to their geographic and ecological habitat, despite clear distinctions in morphology and, to a large extent, genetic data.

In these circumstances, the Duke of Wellington had great difficulty in building support for his premiership, despite promising moderate reform.

The literature of the entire postwar period thus enjoyed great attention, despite its often precarious position.

Bastion however manages to grasp Hope's neck, and states that despite his original programming, he will take great pleasure in killing her.

Interestingly, Hogwarts Quidditch players are allowed to use whatever broomsticks they like or their sponsors can afford, despite the fact that more expensive brooms often confer great ( and arguably unfair ) advantages in speed and manoeuvrability.

A great many men had come, but Gyda singled out Olaf, despite the fact he was wearing his bad weather clothes, and the other men wore their finest clothing.

LSE is heavily targeted by employers and graduates are in great demand despite the current economic climate.

In an effort to demonstrate the Byzantine ideal of the emperor's role as the leader of the Christian world, John marched into Muslim Syria at the head of the combined forces of Byzantium and the Crusader states ; yet despite the great vigour with which he pressed the campaign, John's hopes were disappointed by the treachery of his Crusader allies, who deliberately failed to fight against their common Muslim enemies at the crucial moment.

Pryor, on the other hand, was fearsome, intimidating and, despite possessing great talent and having been a peer of greats Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns, was the recipient of limited media coverage.