Madison Bumgarner punctuated one of the finest World Series performances in baseball history by pitching the Giants to their third title in five years with a 3-2 win over the Royals in Game 7 on Wednesday night, according to an ESPN.com report.

Travis Ishikawa hit the first homer to end an NLCS, a three-run shot that sent the Giants to the World Series with a 6-3 win over the Cardinals in Game 5 on Thursday night.

These every-other-year Giants will face the Royals in an all wild-card Fall Classic that begins Tuesday night in Kansas City.

Joe Panik scored the go-ahead run in the seventh inning on Aaron Barrett's bases-loaded wild pitch, and the Giants edged the Nationals 3-2 Tuesday night to return to the NL Championship Series.

The wild-card Giants won 3-1 in the best-of-five Division Series by also scoring on a walk and a groundout.