OAKLAND–With a major league-best eight walkoff wins, the Giants became the Bay Area team accustomed to racing out of the dugout and celebrating late-inning magic with an on-field party.
Earlier in the decade, the Giants were also the Bay Area team accustomed to hoisting trophies.
Though the prize the A’s earned for defeating the Giants 6-5 Sunday isn’t going to put rings on their fingers, their second straight walkoff win kept San Francisco from a victory after it mounted a three-run comeback that would have helped the club claim the first Bay Bridge Series trophy.
Sunday’s game had all the elements of an instant-classic from the Giants’ point of view, including pinch hit heroics from Pablo Sandoval and Alen Hanson plus a go-ahead home run by Andrew McCutchen.