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It had been a World Series with little suspense. But its closing act finally produced a dash of drama worthy of a fall classic.
The Detroit Tigers put up their first authentic fight of the series. They scored as many runs in one game as they had the previous three. With the help of a stiff breeze, one of their prominent sluggers even managed to sweet-talk a fly ball over an outfield wall.
But the Tigers could not postpone the inevitable. Marco Scutaro singled home the winning run in the 10th inning, lifting the San Francisco Giants to a 4-3 victory and a four-game sweep.
The Giants, who won six straight elimination games to reach the World Series, are champions for the second time in three years. They needed five games to dispatch the Texas Rangers in 2010. (Photo: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
In a post-season full of twists and turns, the San Francisco Giants are headed back to the World Series after a big comeback against the defending champs.
Hunter Pence got the Giants going with a weird double, Matt Cain pitched his second clincher of October and San Francisco closed out Game 7 of the NL championship series in a driving rainstorm, routing the St. Louis Cardinals 9-0 Monday night.
San Francisco won its record-tying sixth elimination game of the post-season, completing a lopsided rally from a 3-1 deficit.
“These guys never quit,” Manager Bruce Bochy said. “They just kept believing and they got it done.”
Injured closer Brian Wilson, with that out-of-control bushy black beard, danced in the dugout and fans in the sellout crowd of 43,056 kept twirling their orange rally towels even through rain in the late innings — a downright downpour when Sergio Romo retired Matt Holliday on a popup to Marco Scutaro to end it.
“This rain never felt so good,” said Scutaro, who won the NLCS MVP award.
Misa Malone, cast member of Beach Blanket Babylon, a long-running revue in which the performers wear improbably extravagant hats, regaled the crowd at San Francisco’s AT&T Park with God Bless America in the seventh inning of Game 6 on Sunday.
Cristiano Ronaldo has nothing on her.
Photo: Robert Galbraith/Reuters
WOMP, WOMP. Sorry Giants fans: Thursday night was not your finest hour.
Adam Wainwright looked like an ace again and some of the St. Louis Cardinals’ top hitters rediscovered their strokes.
On the verge of a repeat wild-card title shot, the defending World Series champions have picked a good time to put it all together.
The Giants are in a big hole after Wainwright threw seven innings of four-hit ball and a 12-hit attack roughed up Tim Lincecum and the San Francisco bullpen Thursday night.
BUSTED: San Francisco outfielder Melky Cabrera was suspended 50 games Wednesday following a positive test for testosterone, putting an abrupt end to what had been a remarkable regular season and throwing the Giants’ playoff hopes into doubt
Hey girl, this ball is for you.
(Source: nationalpost.com)
Happy New Year! Here’s a picture of San Francisco Giants closer Brian Wilson wearing a spandex tuxedo at the ESPY Awards. Photo: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters
