» May 8, 1912: The Giants score nine runs by the 3rd inning and young Jeff Tesreau holds on for an 11–8 win over the Cardinals. Christy Mathewson relieves in the 9th for New York. In the 7th inning, with a man on third, Tesreau grounds to SS Wally Smith, whose throw to 1B hits ump Brick Owens in the head knocking him out (as noted by Retrosheet). Owens' wife, who is watching from the grandstands, faints. The runner is sent back to 3B and Tesreau hits again. Owens is back at work tomorrow.

» July 20, 1912: Jeff Tesreau, with relief help from Christy Mathewson in the 9th, beats the Pirates, 2–1. Four singles in the 9th inning off Hank Robinson provide the Giants with the margin.

» August 16, 1912: In Chicago, the Giants score twice in the opening frame off Jim Lavender to knock out the would-be Giant killer and go on to win, 7–4. Fred Merkle and Larry Doyle pull off a double steal in the inning, with Doyle on the front end. Jeff Tesreau puzzles the locals and the Cubs drop six games behind the Giants.

» August 27, 1912: In response to demands for an alternative way to rate pitchers besides wins and losses, the NL will officially keep ERA's for the first time; the Giants Jeff Tesreau will lead the league at 1.96. Despite an increase in .300 hitters from 22 to 32 this year, there will be 19 pitchers with ERA's under 3.00. The AL will not make ERA part of their official statistics until 1913.

» September 6, 1912: Jeff Tesreau pitches a 3–0 no-hitter over the Phils, the first modern rookie to perform the feat. Eppa Rixey takes the loss. New York wins the nitecap as well, 9–8.

» September 9, 1912: At the Polo Grounds, the Giants sweep two from Brooklyn, 2–1 and 7–2. Jumbo Jeff Tesreau takes the opener and Christy Mathewson the nitecap.

» September 12, 1912: The leading Giants split with the Cardinals, losing the opener when the Birds blast reliever Doc Crandall in the 9th to win, 4–2. Jeff Tesreau wins his 6th straight in the nitecap.

» September 19, 1912: In New York, the Reds end Jeff Tesreau's win streak at 7, beating him, 2–1. The 2nd game ends in a 2–2 tie.

» October 8, 1912: The World Series opens. Giants manager John McGraw goes with rookie Jeff Tesreau, his most effective late-season pitcher, against the Red Sox. Smoky Joe Wood fans 11 and wins 4–3 before 35,730 at New York.

» October 11, 1912: Joe Wood faces Jeff Tesreau again in New York. Despite giving up nine hits, Wood walks none and works out of several jams for a 3–1 win.

» October 15, 1912: In game 7 on a cold day in Boston, the Giants catch up with Joe Wood’s smoke, teeing off for 6 runs on 7 hits before the 32,694 fans have settled down. Jeff Tesreau wobbles to an 11–4 win and the Series is tied at 3 all. The only Boston bright spot is Tris Speaker’s unassisted double play in the 9th, the only one by an outfielder in WS play. Before the game, Red Sox management release the Royal Rooters' block of tickets to the general public, and when the Rooters march on to the field shortly before game time, they find "their" seats taken. The Rooters refuse to leave the field and the club resorts to using mounted policemen to herd them behind the left-field bleacher rail or out of the park. When the Red Sox win the coin flip after today's game to determine the site for the deciding match, the upset Royal Rooter boycott the finale, lowering the attendance.

» May 1, 1913: Pete Alexander earns his first win of the year, topping the Giants Jeff Tesreau, 1–0. Alex scores the only Phils run after reaching base on an error.

» July 3, 1913: The Giants hand Pete Alexander his 3rd loss in the four game series, as Jeff Tesreau wins, 4–2, in 11 innings. New York is now in first place by three 1/2 games.

» October 9, 1913: In game 3, the A's have no trouble solving Jeff Tesreau. Rookie P Bullet Joe Bush throws a 5-hit 8–2 win before 36,896 at the Polo Grounds, the largest crowd of the Series. Again, the Giants use Wiltse at 1B when Snodgrass pulls up lame.

» May 16, 1914: Giants' spitballer Jeff Tesreau's no-hit bid against Pittsburgh is spoiled with two outs in the 9th when Joe Kelly lines a single. Tesreau retires the last batter to win, 2–0.

» June 29, 1914: At the Polo Grounds, the Giants and Dodgers battle to a split. Brooklyn lurches to an 8–7 win in the opener. In game 2, Giants starter Jeff Tesreau is tossed in the 3rd inning for disputing a call, and Christy Mathewson rushes in to relieve with the score 1–1. New York scores four in the 3rd off Frank Allen and goes on to win, 8–6.

» August 14, 1914: The Braves pound another 11 hits, off Jeff Tesreau, and the Braves beat the Giants, 7–3. Bill James is the winner with help from Connolly, who belts a homer, double, and single.

» September 7, 1914: The Braves and Giants play an A.M.-P.M. twin bill in Boston on Labor Day. To accommodate the crowds, the Braves have moved their home games to Fenway Park, courtesy of owner Joe Lannin: Fenway has triple the seating capacity of South End Grounds. The two contests draw 74,163 on the day. The Braves, down 4–3 to Christy Mathewson in the 9th, storm back for two runs to win the opener. Josh Devore scratches a single, Herb Moran doubles into the crowd ringing the outfield, and Johnny Evers slaps a single that eludes George Burns to drive home the tying and winning runs. Jeff Tesreau wins the nitecap, 10–1, and the Giants pile on Lefty Tyler. In the Giants' 4-run sixth, Fred Snodgrass takes a pitch on the sleeve to reach 1B, thumbing his nose at Tyler along the way. Lefty retaliates by acting out Fred's 1912 muff. When Snodgrass returns to CF, the crowd is merciless to the point that Boston Mayor Curley rushes on the field and demands the umpires eject the Giant player. McGraw, worried that Snodgrass might incur an injury, replaces Snodgrass.

» October 18, 1914: NL and AL all-star teams, featuring stars such as Grover Alexander, Jeff Tesreau, Joe Bush, and Bill James, start an exhibition tour today in Milwaukee with the Braves' Bill James losing to Bullet Joe Bush, 6–2. The tour will take them to Hawaii after wandering throughout the West, with the NL winning 29 of the 50 games played. Playing tomorrow in Mandan, ND, the NL will win, 2–1, in 12 innings.

» May 18, 1915: On Suffrage Day, 4,100 women buy tickets to see the Giants-Cubs game in New York, and the suffragettes announce they will pay five dollars to each player who scores a run. "Wildfire" is the only recipient, as Chicago pulls a first inning double steal with Frank Schulte on the front end. Heinie Zimmerman is on the rear. The one run stands up against Jeff Tesreau and Bert Humphries wins, 1–0, with each pitcher allowing three hits.

» June 28, 1915: The Giants sweep two from the Braves, winning 3–2 and 5–3. Christy Mathewson wins the opener, 11 innings to beat Pat Ragan. Art Fletcher scores the wining run in the 11th on an error. Matty allows six hits, including a two-run homer in the 4th by Sherry Magee. Jeff Tesreau is the winner in the nitecap.

» July 26, 1915: Honus Wagner drives in both runs to beat Christy Mathewson, 2–1. The Pirates lose the nitecap when the Giants Jeff Tesreau tosses a 5-hitter to win, 3–0.

» August 4, 1915: On a cold and damp day in St. Louis, the Giants sweep the Cardinals. In the opener, New York pounds Red Ames and Christy Mathewson coasts to a 10–0 lead after six innings, but the Cards come back to make it close, losing 11–9. Jeff Tesreau saves Matty's 6th win of the year. New York takes the nitecap, 7–0.

» August 12, 1915: At Forbes Field, young Al Mamaux yields just three hits in beating Giants starter Jeff Tesreau, 3–0.

» May 2, 1916: The Giants pick up their first win in nine games as Jeff Tesreau allows just three hits in beating Brooklyn, 3–1.

» May 23, 1916: In Cincinnati, Rube Benton pitches the Giants to a 4–3 win over the Reds, New York's 12th win in a row on the road. Benton needs relief help from Jeff Tesreau and Christy Mathewson in the 9th to win.

» July 31, 1916: The Giants take two from Pittsburgh, winning both by 7–0 scores. Slim Sallee and Jeff Tesreau are the winners.

» September 28, 1916: In the 4th doubleheader whitewash in the NL this month, the Giants' Jeff Tesreau tops the Braves, 2–0, in the opener. In the 2nd game, Ferdie Schupp yields a 7th inning single to Braves 1B Ed Konetchy, breaking up his no hitter. Schupp finishes with a one-hit, 6–0 win, and will end the year with an ERA of 0.90. For New York, it is their 25th consecutive win.

» September 30, 1916: In the opener of a doubleheader, Giants pitcher Rube Benton takes a no hitter into the 8th inning before Braves 1B Ed Konetchy repeats his performance of two days ago by lacing a hit, the only Boston safety. Benton wins the one-hitter, 4–0 for New York's record 26th win in a row. Boston then wins the 2nd game, 8–3, behind Lefty Tyler to snap the historic streak. Jeff Tesreau, in relief of Slim Sallee, is ineffective. Despite the winning streak, and an earlier skein of 17 victories on the road, New York finishes in 4th place.

» May 21, 1917: The Giants take over first place with a 4–3 win over the Pirates behind the pitching of Big Jeff Tesreau and the favorable umpiring of Kitty Bransfield. Tesreau allows just two hits through eight innings before weakening in the 9th. Kitty makes an out call in the 9th on a grounder that 3B Doug Baird clearly appears to beat, and in the 2nd inning ignores Art Fletcher's failure to return to 3rd before scoring on a sac fly. Fletcher had taken a 15-foot lead.

» September 9, 1917: Grover Alexander beats New York's Jeff Tesreau, 4–1. Ferdie Schupp takes the nitecap, 2–1 for New York, beating the Phils Eppa Rixey.