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SAN FRANCISCO — Many of the Giants watched in the clubhouse, and then later at their team hotel in downtown Pittsburgh, as the team from across the bridge became the first last October to realize how tough an out the Kansas City Royals were. Weeks later, the Royals would take the Giants to the final moments of Game 7.
The A’s were the only team before the Giants to even make the Royals sweat, which surely led many in the East Bay to wonder what could have been.