FILE: Former San Francisco Giants player Brian Wilson looks on during the pregame ceremony for Buster Posey at Oracle Park on May 7, 2022, in San Francisco.

The Giants haven’t had a bona fide closer this season and sure seem to be suffering from their bullpen uncertainty. So who better to ask about the ninth inning than the closer who saved the first World Series clincher in San Francisco history?

Three-time All-Star closer Brian Wilson made a rare appearance on KNBR’s “Murph and Markus” morning show on Wednesday, as the Giants continue to have trouble in the ninth inning. The man known as “the Beard” was the team’s closer from 2007 through 2012, which most famously saw him save Game 5 of the 2010 World Series to win the Giants’ first title since they moved from New York to San Francisco in 1958.

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Giants president of baseball operations Buster Posey declined to pursue a veteran closer this offseason and defended that decision in a KNBR interview three weeks ago. But since then, the lack of a consistent closer has only looked worse, as the Giants have blown three ninth-inning leads en route to losses in the past two weeks.

The general baseball belief is that the last three outs of a game are the toughest and require guys with nerves of steel to handle the job. Javier Lopez, Wilson’s old teammate and a longtime middle reliever, made that point in a separate KNBR........

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