KNBR has opened up a rare piece of Giants history, releasing the full radio broadcast of Game 7 of the 2014 World Series on YouTube to mark the twelfth anniversary of San Francisco’s win over the Kansas City Royals.
For fans who have only heard the familiar clips over the years, this is the whole thing: Duane Kuiper, Mike Krukow, Jon Miller, and Dave Flemming taking listeners through every inning of one of the defining games in Giants history. The station also put together a condensed version for anyone who doesn’t have time to sit through the full two and a half hour broadcast.
That shorter cut still captures the biggest swings of the night, including every out Madison Bumgarner recorded after entering in the fifth inning. It also includes the chaos in the bottom of the ninth, when Gregor Blanco misplayed a ball in center field and Kansas City briefly looked like it might force a tie. Bumgarner then got Salvador Perez to pop one of his fastballs up to Pablo Sandoval, sealing the Giants’ third title in five years.
The timing makes the release even more meaningful with Krukow having retired a month ago. The broadcast crew has spoken often about how much pride they take in those playoff calls as a group, and hearing all four voices together again gives the audio extra weight.
There’s also something unusual about the way those games were handled. It’s not standard for TV announcers to join the radio crew, but the Giants made that call, and it gave the broadcasts a different feel. With Krukow and Kuiper involved, it clearly mattered that they had a hand in calling those games.
For anyone looking for a hit of baseball nostalgia, especially with the lockout expected to bring the sport to a halt in a month, the Game 7 radio call is now there to revisit.
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