Even years, 2010 through 2014, the run that finally answered San Francisco's oldest complaint.
Beat Texas in five. The first in San Francisco, 56 years after the move.
The star: Edgar Renteria, a 34-year-old shortstop hitting .276 who had missed six weeks, was named Series MVP after going 7-for-17 with the three-run homer off Cliff Lee that decided Game 5.
The season: Never led the division until September 5. Won it on the final day of the regular season, 92-70, one game clear of San Diego.
The 2010 Giants were built the way the franchise had failed to build for half a century: on pitching nobody could hit and on hitters nobody else wanted. Tim Lincecum, Matt Cain, Jonathan Sanchez and a rookie named Madison Bumgarner started every postseason game. Aubrey Huff, Pat Burrell and Cody Ross had all been available to any team willing to take them.
They beat Texas in five games. The Rangers hit .190 in the Series.
It was the first World Series won in San Francisco, fifty-six years after the franchise's previous title and fifty-two years after it left New York. Two more followed inside five seasons, which nobody watching in 2010 would have predicted and which is the reason the case looks the way it does now.
Swept Detroit, after two elimination-game comebacks to get there.
Beat Kansas City in seven. Bumgarner's five innings of relief in Game 7.
Franchise total is eight, counting the New York years: 1905, 1921, 1922, 1933 and 1954. The three above are the ones this city watched.