THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT!!!

The 2014 Giants fell out of first place with a tremendous early-summer thud. They fell out of the top wild-card spot with a tepid late summer. They kept tumbling until it was time to rise, dust themselves off and become the last National League club standing.



Mobbing was more like it, after the Giants captured their third pennant in five seasons in the most thrilling way possible Thursday night.

After Michael Morse so improbably tied Game 5 of the National League Championship Series with an eighth-inning homer off Pat Neshek, Travis Ishikawa hit a three-run homer off Michael Wacha with one out in the ninth for a 6-3 win that sent AT&T Park into a state of delirium, and the Giants to the World Series.

The Giants won their seventh pennant in San Francisco and 21st in franchise history with, of all things, the long ball.

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