Final Four: 1973 Giants defeat 2019 Twins in six games

Game One: Giants 15, Twins 8
WP: Willoughby (2-0)
LP: Perez (0-3)
HR: Bonds (5), Gonzalez (3), Kingman (7), Cruz (6), Polanco (5)

Game Two: Giants 2, Twins 1
WP: Barr (5-1)
LP: Odorizzi (3-2)
Save: Sosa (5)
HR: Speier (2)

Game Three: Twins 7, Giants 3
WP: Pineda (4-0)
LP: Bradley (4-2)
HR: Bonds (6), Garver (5), Rosario 2 (3)

Game Four: Giants 12, Twins 8
WP: Marichal (4-1)
LP: Harper (1-1)
Save: Moffitt (5)
HR: Bonds (7), Goodson (2), McCovey (7), Garver (6), Kepler (5)

Game Five: Twins 3, Giants 2
WP: Berrios (4-1)
LP: Barr (5-2)
Save: Romo (2)
HR: McCovey (8), Kepler (6), Adrianza (3)

Game Six: Giants 11, Twins 4
WP: Bradley (5-2)
LP: Odorizzi (3-3)
HR: Bonds (8), Maddox (3), Thomasson (1), Kingman (8), Arraez (2)

The Giants scored in double digits in three of their wins, blasting 11 homers in the six games of the series to match the powerful Bomba Squard in four-baggers while adjusting their pitching plans on the fly.

Game One, in Target Field, was quite the slugfest.  Bobby Bonds hit a three-run homer in the second as the Giants took a 5-0 lead. The Twins scored three in the second, with Marwin Gonzalez hitting a two-run homer. Gonzalez drove in two more in the third with a double as the Twins knocked Ron Bryant out of the box. But Jose Berrios couldn't survive the fourth, and the score was tied at seven after four innings. The Giants blasted three Twins relievers for six runs in the fifth inning, with Dave Rader, Bonds, Gary Matthews and Ed Goodson each hitting RBI doubles. John Willoughby held the Twins to two runs in six innings of relief for the win.

Game Two was a pitchers duel. Jake Odorizzi allowed one hit in the first four innings but left in the fifth with the bases loaded and one out. The Twins couldn't turn the double play on a Dave Rader grounder, and the Giants took a 1-0 lead. Chris Speier homered in the seventh off Sergio Romo. The Twins got a run in the seventh off Jim Barr, but Sam McDowell retired Max Kepler and Jorge Polanco with the tying run on second to escape the inning, and McDowell and Elias Sosa didn't allow a runner the rest of the way.

Eddie Rosario had a big day in Game Three, hitting homers in his first two Candlestick Park at-bats and diving in five runs in all. Michael Pineda allowed two earned runs in seven innings for the win. 

The Giants bats exploded again in Game Four. Goodson capped a four-run first with a three-run homer off Kyle Gibson, and San Francisco took a 5-0 lead into the fourth. The Twins then ralled for seven runs, with the first eight hitters reaching base against Bryant (one on an error). Bryant walked two and hit a batter. The Twins added a run in the fifth to lead 8-5. But Gary Thomasson doubled in two runs pinch-hitting for Don McMahon to make it a one-run margin, and Juan Marichal, pressed into relief duty because of all the short starts, worked two scoreless innings. Bonds and Willie McCovery each slugged two-run homers in the seventh to take the lead, and Randy Moffitt sealed the win with two scoreless innings.

The Twins staved off elimination with a 3-2 win in Game Five. Ehrie Adrianza and Kepler homered in a three-run fifth ofr a 3-2 lead. Berrios and relievers Tyler Duffey and Sergio Romo made that margin stand up.

But that was the last lead for the series for the favored Twins. Goodson doubled in a pair of runs in the first for the visiting Giants in Game Six, Bonds doubled in another run in the second, Dave Kingman homered in the third and the Giants had five runs off Odorizzi. Rosario doubled in two runs in the bottom of the third, but Bonds and Garry Maddox hit back-to-back homers in the fifth of Martin Perez. The Giants scored two runs in each of the last two innings. Tom Bradley went seven innings, allowing four runs on 12 hits, with Sosa getting the final six outs.

Player availability: No injuries, and the Giants bullpen will be fully available for the first game of the finals.

Projected rotation: Unsettled. Marichal pitched two games in relief in this series, but is available to start Game Two if needed. Bryant will start Games 1, 4 and, if necessary, 7. Preliminary plan: Bryant-Barr-Bradley-Bryant-(Barr)-(Bradley)-(Bryant)