Giants–Yankees rivalry
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| First meeting | October 5, 1921 Polo Grounds (World Series) June 7, 2002 Yankee Stadium (original) (regular season) |
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| Latest meeting | July 24, 2016 Yankee Stadium Yankees 5, Giants 2 |
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| Meetings total | 52 (World Series: 43, regular season: 9) | ||
| Regular season series | Yankees, 5–4 | ||
| Largest victory | 18–4, Yankees (World Series–October 2, 1936) 7–2, Giants (regular season–June 24, 2007) |
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| Current win streak | 1, Yankees | ||
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The Giants–Yankees rivalry is a Major League Baseball rivalry between the San Francisco Giants of the National League and the New York Yankees of the American League. It was particularly intense when both teams not only inhabited New York City but also, for a time, the same ball park. During that era the opportunities for them to meet could only have been in a World Series. Both teams kicked off the first Subway Series between the two leagues in 1921.
The American League was at its infancy at the start of the 20th century. The current Yankees franchise had its origins in Baltimore as the Baltimore Orioles. At the time, rivalry between the National League and the American League was fierce. In 1902, long time National League executive John T. Brush gained a partial ownership interest in the Orioles, and released four key team members—Hall of Fame manager John McGraw, Hall of Fame pitcher Joe McGinnity, Hall of Fame catcher Roger Bresnahan and starting first baseman Dan McGann—from their Orioles' contract to join the National League New York Giants. Brush also allowed other Orioles' players to join other National League teams. Later that year, Brush became owner of the Giants.
The fledgling league realized they needed to capitalize on the big market of New York City and American League president Ban Johnson wanted revenge on McGraw and Brush for their antics with the Orioles. So the American League moved the Orioles to New York, where the established National League Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers teams were already located, over the Giants' and Dodgers' objections and despite their efforts to use their political influence within New York to prevent the move. The team was eventually called the Highlanders due to their homefield being on Hilltop Park from 1903-12. The Highlanders had a successful season in 1904 and were just one game away from winning the pennant that year. Highlanders star pitcher Jack Chesbro, who had won 41 games that year (an AL record that still stands today), was pitching in the bottom of the 9th inning to their eventual fierce rival the Boston Americans. One of Chesbro's spitballs got away allowing Boston to score and win the game and pennant on the wild pitch. The modern day World Series was played in 1903 between the winners of the American League and the National League, but when the Giants won the NL pennant in 1904 they refused to play Boston in the fall classic. Giants' owner Brush stated "There is nothing in the constitution or playing rules of the National League which requires its victorious club to submit its championship honors to a contest with a victorious club in a minor league." This move by the Giants made the 1905 season as the first one to have the World Series as the official matchup between the winners of the American and National Leagues.
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