Let's remember some SF Giant relievers by BruceM

Champion(s):

jsparkyp
Wished I was in Tijuana, eating barbecued iguana...


Runner(s)-Up:

HulkaE
Find what you like and let it kill you


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Questions:

Who threw the last pitch of the 2010 World Series, recording his sixth save that postseason? His jet-black beard presaged a 2010s baseball playoff trend, and he shares his first and last name with the musician who wrote and produced "Surfer Girl."

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Brian Wilson

Who threw the last pitch of the 2012 World Series? This slider specialist would later become baseball's first Opener in May 2018, when Tampa Bay gave him his first start after over 500 career relief appearances. Soon after the 2020 World Series, the Minnesota Twins declined his option.

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Sergio Romo

What southpaw, typically a starter, threw the last pitch of the 2014 World Series to cap five scoreless innings in Game 7? He signed with Arizona in December 2019, the same offseason the public learned of his rodeo show alter ego, Mason Saunders.

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Madison Bumgarner

Who signed a four-year, $62 million contact with the Giants, at that point the largest contact ever given a reliever? (Later surpassed by Kenley Jansen, whose last name rhymes with this guy's last name, and then Aroldis Chapman.)

He had saved 51 games for the 2015 Pirates, and 47 combined between Pittsburgh and Washington in 2016, but just 14 across two-and-a-half injury-ravaged seasons in SF. The Giants traded him to Atlanta in 2019.

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Mark Melancon

First and last name required. What southpaw saved 34 games for the 2019 Giants? Like the reliever for the previous question, he was in Atlanta's 2020 bullpen, where he gave up a momentum-changing home run to a Dodger with the same first and last name as him.

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Will Smith

Who is the Giants' franchise leader in saves, with over 200 across five seasons (1998-2002)? In what was then called Pacific Bell Park, this former Marlin's entrance music was Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water."

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Robb Nen

Who saved 199 games for San Francisco in the 1990s, among his 286 career saves? Nicknamed "Shooter," he signed with the Cubs in 1998 and pitched against the Giants (notching his 51st save that season) in the wild card tiebreaker game.

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Rod Beck

What middle reliever, nicknamed "Moon Man," only struck out 3.8 batters per nine innings, but had a streak of over 269 innings (1979-1982) without allowing a home run?

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Greg Minton

Who allowed nine runs (including four home runs) across two disastrous August 2020 games as Oakland put up back-to-back rallies to win games the A's had trailed (7-2, then 6-3) entering the ninth inning?

This former Kentucky Wildcat shares his last name with (but is no relation to) a reliever who played for SF in 1985-86 in addition to stints with Toronto, Pittsburgh, and the early 1990s Dodgers.

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Trevor Gott

Who saved Game 2 of the 2014 NLDS, an 18-inning affair at Washington that was then the longest game (by time) in MLB playoff history? Unfortunately he allowed six home runs that postseason, two to Bryce Harper, whom he hit with a 2017 pitch to spark a bench-clearing brawl.

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Hunter Strickland

What Munich-born southpaw saved 20 games for the 1989 Giants (Steve Bedrosian saved 17)? He was known for sprinting from the bullpen, and for an April 1986 walkoff home run against the aforementioned Moon Man from a few questions ago.

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Craig Lefferts

What southpaw holds the Giants' career pitching record with 647 appearances (1974-1984), including 127 saves? In the fourth inning of the 1977 All-Star Game he struck out both Carl Yastrzemski and Reggie Jackson.

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Gary Lavelle