Giants win 7th straight World Series game in opener
San Francisco, seeking its third championship in five years, hasn’t lost a World Series game since Game 3 of the 2010 World Series against Texas.
Jamie Squire
The Kansas City Royals entered the World Series on an eight-game winning streak, but it was the San Francisco Giants that continued a streak in Game 1 at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City. With its 7-1 victory over the Royals on Tuesday night, the Giants have now won its last seven World Series games.
There have only been five World Series streaks longer than the seven-game run by San Francisco, who swept the Detroit Tigers in the 2012 Fall Classic and won its final two games against the Texas Rangers in 2010.
Unsurprisingly, the New York Yankees -- with its 27 championships -- own the three longest World Series winning streaks: a 14-game streak from 1996-2000, a 12-game streak from 1927-32 and a 10-game streak from 1937-41.
The Giants matched another Yankees streak, a seven-gamer in 1949-50. The other two longer streaks were a pair of nine-game streaks by the Red Sox from 2004-13 and the Cincinnati Reds from 1975-90.
The Giants have won six of 12 World Series when winning Game 1.
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