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Posey and Bochy recall championship pairing of Montana and Walsh

Posey and Bochy recall championship pairing of Montana and Walsh

By Brian Murphy



Catcher Buster Posey and manager Bruce Bochy have been the Giants’ leaders throughout their three World Series runs.

There is only one San Francisco sports comparison to the Giants and their current run of October glory, to the way the Giants have seized hearts and souls around here in 2010 and 2012 and now, to the way they dominate our senses as tenaciously as a Madison Bumgarner start, to the way they affect fans in ways as nakedly emotional as a Hunter Pence inspirational speech.

That would be the 1980s 49ers, who won four Super Bowls in an eight-year span.

And though Ronnie Lott and Jerry Rice are Canton-enshrined immortals from those 49ers teams, if you had to distill the 49ers of the 1980s to two figures, it would be the quarterback, Joe Montana, and the head coach, Bill Walsh.

The Giants have a duo, too. Those two are who we’re experiencing right here, right now, Tuesday night, when you tune in to see the Giants in those classic road grays, set off by black-and-orange lettering, on the pretty green grass of Kansas City’s Kauffman Stadium.

You will see the Buster Posey-Bruce Bochy Giants, and you will realize: This is the time.

This is the golden era of the catcher and the manager, they are the two primary factors behind these unforgettable days that have spun through Atlanta and Philadelphia and Texas; through Cincinnati and St. Louis and Detroit; through Pittsburgh and Washington, through St.Louis again, and now to the country’s heartland, to the City of Fountains on the Missouri-Kansas state line.

Other 2010-2012-2014 constants are critical, of course. Bumgarner is 25 and yet to allow a run in the World Series. The fab four relievers — Sergio Romo, Santiago Casilla, Jeremy Affeldt, Javier Lopez — are Bochy’s indispensable bullpen tools. Tim Lincecum, however quiet his 2014 October, got the win in the game that gave San Francisco its first-ever World Series.

But three NL flags in five years? This is the Buster-Bochy run.
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