Spilborghs hit the first walk-off grand slam in Rockies history, his second career grand slam, and his first walk-off homer in the 14th inning to squeak by the Giants, 6 – 4, Monday in front of about half of the 27, 670 fans who remained at Coors Field.

* Dontrelle Willis ( 2003 – 2007 ) — The " D-Train " was named the National League Rookie of the Year in 2003 and showcased his remarkable ( for a pitcher ) hitting ability by going 3-for-3 with a triple while scoring a run during Game 4 of the 2003 National League Division Series, which the Marlins won 7 – 6 over the San Francisco Giants to advance to the NL Championship Series.

* Field Goals, Game: 6 Tom Dempsey ( November 16, 1969 at New York Giants )

After 9 – 7 and 10 – 6 finishes in 1984 and 1985 respectively, the Giants compiled a 14 – 2 record in 1986 led by league MVP and Defensive Player of the Year Lawrence Taylor and the Big Blue Wrecking Crew defense.

The Giants struggled to a 6 – 9 record in the strike-marred 1987 season, due largely to a decline in the running game, as Morris managed only 658 yards behind an injury-riddled offensive line.

Despite the controversy, the Giants finished 10 – 6, and Taylor recorded 15. 5 sacks after his return from the suspension.

Handley served as coach for two disappointing seasons ( 1991 – 92 ), which saw the Giants fall from Super Bowl champions to an 8 – 8 record in 1991 and a 6 – 10 record in 1992.

Brown performed poorly the following two seasons, and the Giants struggled to 5 – 11 and 6 – 10 records.

The Giants finished 10 – 6, and became NFC Champions after defeating the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Dallas Cowboys, and Green Bay Packers in the NFC Playoffs.

Before long, the Giants were 6 – 2, but lost two straight to division foes: to the Cowboys 33 – 20 at home, and to the Eagles on the road, putting the G-Men in 2nd place in the NFC East at 6 – 4.

The next game, the Giants lost to the eventual Super Bowl Champion Green Bay Packers 45 – 17, and at 9 – 6, they faced the Redskins.

On May 6, Giants ' center fielder Willie Mays celebrated his 29th birthday with his first home run in the team's new stadium, Candlestick Park, a 350-foot line drive to right field which barely eluded the grasp of a leaping Roberto Clemente.

The Giants faced the four American League West teams that year: Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers, Anaheim Angels and the Oakland A's, while compiling a 10 – 6 record.

With the Giants leading 5 – 0 going into the bottom of the 7th inning of Game 6, the series ' momentum changed decisively when then Manager Dusty Baker removed starter Russ Ortiz and handed him the " game " ball as he left the mound.

The Giants went on to lose the game 8 – 6.

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 game also saw the Giants set the record for the most runs ( 6 ) scored in a single half-inning in a World Series since 1933.

The Giants ' other starting linebackers, Gary Reasons, Carl Banks, and Harry Carson, did not get as much media attention as Taylor, but both Reasons and Carson had been selected to play in the Pro Bowl, while Banks recorded 6. 5 sacks and 2 fumble recoveries.

After forcing the Bills to punt on the opening drive of the game, the Giants consumed 6: 15 off the clock by marching 58 yards in 10 plays to score on a 28-yard field goal from Matt Bahr.

Labeled They Might Be Giants vs. McSweeney's, the disk appears in issue No. 6 of Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern.

Throughout their career, They Might Be Giants have released 15 studio albums, 13 compilations, 7 live albums, 18 EPs, 5 videos and 6 singles.

Only five teams have more Super Bowl wins than the Redskins: the Pittsburgh Steelers ( 6 ), Dallas Cowboys ( 5 ), San Francisco 49ers ( 5 ), Green Bay Packers ( 4 ), and New York Giants ( 4 ).

Willie Howard Mays, Jr. ( born May 6, 1931 ) is a retired American professional baseball player who spent the majority of his major league career with the New York and San Francisco Giants before finishing with the New York Mets.

It turned out that the Cubs and Giants ended the season tied for first place, so the game was indeed replayed, and the Cubs won the game, the pennant, and subsequently the World Series ( the last Cubs Series victory to date, as it turns out ).

The Indians returned to the World Series to face the New York Giants.

The Marlins finished the 1999 season with the worst record in baseball at 64 – 98, and traded World Series MVP Liván Hernández to the San Francisco Giants.

The Senators faced John McGraw's heavily-favored New York Giants in the 1924 World Series.

The Senators posted a 99 – 53 record and cruised to the pennant seven games ahead of the New York Yankees, but in the 1933 World Series the Giants exacted their revenge, winning in five games.

Al Blozis, Giants tackle, died in World War II.

The Giants were particularly successful from the latter half of the 1930s until the United States entry into World War II.

* 1951 – The " Shot Heard ' Round the World ", one of the greatest moments in Major League Baseball history, occurs when the New York Giants ' Bobby Thomson hits a game winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning off of the Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca, to win the National League pennant after being down 14 games.

After New York Giants ' manager John McGraw told reporters that Philadelphia manufacturer Benjamin Shibe, who owned the controlling interest in the new team, had a " white elephant on his hands ," Mack defiantly adopted the white elephant as the team mascot, and presented McGraw with a stuffed toy elephant at the start of the 1905 World Series.

In the 2010 National League Championship Series, the Phillies fell to the eventual World Series champion San Francisco Giants in six games.

The day after their doubleheader loss, the Pirates traveled to New York's Polo Grounds, where Roberto, having just achieved some measure of vindication against the team that let him get away, now had a chance to compete against his two great baseball heroes, both his boyhood idol Monte Irvin and his recently acquired friend and mentor ( not to mention teammate, with the 1954-55 Caribbean Champion Santurce Crabbers ), Willie Mays, both of whom now patrolled the outfield of the defending World Champion New York Giants, with whom the Pirates now began a four-game series, hoping to pick up their first win of 1955.

In 1971, the Pirates repeated as Eastern Division winners, and reached the 1971 World Series, taking 3 out of 4 from the San Francisco Giants in the 1971 National League Championship Series, with Clemente's throwing prowess, timely hitting and heads-up base-running leading the way in the decisive victory.

The Giants have played in the World Series an NL record 18 times, but boycotted the event in 1904.

As the New York Giants, they won 14 pennants and 5 World Championships, from the era of John McGraw and Christy Mathewson to that of Bobby Thomson and Willie Mays.

The Giants have won four pennants and the 2010 World Series since arriving in San Francisco.

Under McGraw the Giants won ten National League pennants and three World Series championships.

The Giants under McGraw famously snubbed their first modern World Series chance in 1904 — an encounter with the reigning world champion Boston Americans ( now known as the " Red Sox ")— because McGraw considered the new American League as little more than a minor league.

The Giants won the 1905 World Series over the Philadelphia Athletics, with Christy Mathewson nearly winning the series single-handedly.

The Giants experienced some hard luck in the early 1910s, losing three straight World Series starting in 1911 to the A's, the Red Sox, and the A's again ( the Giants and the A's both won pennants in 1913 ; two seasons later, both teams finished in eighth place ).

After losing the 1917 Series to the Chicago White Sox ( the White Sox's last World Series win until 2005 ), the Giants played in four straight World Series in the early 1920s, winning the first two over their tenants, the Yankees, then losing to the Yankees in 1923 when Yankee Stadium opened.

During this time the Giants won three pennants, defeating the Senators in the 1933 World Series and losing to the Yankees in 1936 and 1937.

One of the most famous episodes in Major League Baseball history, the " Shot Heard ' Round the World " is the name given to Bobby Thomson's walk-off home run that clinched the National League pennant for the Giants over their rivals, the Brooklyn Dodgers.