ARLINGTON, Tex. — The Giants bolted New York for San Francisco 53 long years ago, back when the Red Sox were cursed, the White Sox were, too, and a Florida Marlin was a fish, not an athlete wearing teal and black. Their fans have shivered through frigid June evenings and wept over October heartbreak, those soul-crushing years of 1962 and 1989 and 2002, watching as seemingly everyone else has sipped celebratory Champagne. Now it is their turn.

What the Say Hey Kid and Will the Thrill and the Bondses could not do, Edgar Renteria and Tim Lincecum could. They made San Francisco cry with joy, now that the city by the Bay’s beloved Giants are champions of baseball. Their coronation came on a crisp Monday night in Texas, where the Giants rode a three-run homer by Renteria and a dominant eight innings from Lincecum to defeat the Rangers, 3-1, before a crowd of 52,045 at Rangers Ballpark. After Brian Wilson fanned Nelson Cruz with a slider, setting off a raucous celebration behind the mound, November will never be the same again.

“It was mass chaos,” Wilson said about what happened after the final pitch. “It was hysteria.”

It was also the Giants’ first title since 1954, when they still played in the Polo Grounds in Harlem.