On July 18, 1936, New York Giants pitcher Carl Hubbell won a 10-2 blowout against the Cincinnati Reds and then kept on winning, closing out the season with 16 straight victories. He went on to win his first eight games in 1937, notching a MLB record 24 consecutive wins before finally losing to the Brooklyn Dodgers on May 31.

The Giants' rivalry with the Los Angeles Dodgers is one of the longest-standing rivalries in American sports. The teams began their rivalry as the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers, respectively, before both franchises moved west for the 1958 season.

The 1916 New York Giants hold the record for the longest winning streak in MLB history at 26.

Although he was on the 25-player postseason roster, Stengel did not appear in the 1921 World Series against the Yankees as manager John McGraw used only 13 players (4 of them pitchers) in beating the Yankees, five games to three. The only contribution Stengel made to the box score was being ejected from Game 5 for arguing.

In 1930, first baseman Bill Terry finished first in the National League with a .401 batting average. Only Ted Williams of the American League's Boston Red Sox in 1941 has hit .400 since.

Due to a business rivalry between the two leagues, especially in New York, and to personal animosity between New York Giants manager John McGraw and American League president Ban Johnson, the Giants declined to meet the champions of the "junior" (or "minor") league in the 1904 World Series. McGraw said his Giants were already the world champions because they were the champions of the "only real major league".

The incredible performances of Juan Marichal and Warren Spahn on July 2, 1963, would forever link their names in baseball history. Spahn had been baseball's most winning pitcher in the 1950s, and Marichal would be equally dominant in the 1960s. But in this head-to-head matchup, Spahn's final line of one run over 15⅓ innings wasn't enough to beat Marichal's 16 scoreless innings. At one point, 25-year-old Marichal is said to have told Giants manager Alvin Dark, "He's 42 and I'm 25, and you can't take me out until that man is not pitching."

When the strike suspended play for the Giants after 115 games, it was Matt Williams--not Barry Bonds, who hit behind him in the lineup--who was on track to top Maris' single-season record of 61 home runs. With 47 games left to play, Williams stood at 43. Even with the strike-shortened season, it was the most Williams ever hit in a single year.

With league rules moving the pitcher's mound back to 60 feet, 6 inches prior to the 1893 season, offensive totals jumped across the league, and George Davis was at the forefront of the surge, compiling a .355 batting average and setting a franchise single-season record with 27 triples.

On April 2, 2017, Madison Bumgarner became the first pitcher in MLB history to hit two home runs in an Opening Day matchup. Both homers left Bumgarner's bat at a mind-blowing 112 miles per hour, according to StatCast.