Last night was game four of the MLB World Series, and it was one for the ages. It was San Francisco's to loss from game one. After they gave Verlander a run for his money, I knew that the Giants would have yet another World Series Title.
The Giants were able to sweep the Tigers and take home their second Title in just 3 years. Their win Sunday was do in large part to their pitching. It was outstanding throughout the playoffs. Now let's take a look at who produced in critical times for the Giants.
Marco Scutaro, who else? delivered one more key hit this October, a go-ahead single with two outs in the 10th inning that lifted the Giants to a 4-3 win.
On a night of biting cold, stiff breezes and some rain, the Giants combined the most important elements of championship baseball. After three straight wins that looked relatively easy, they sealed this victory when Sergio Romo got Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera to look at strike three for the final out. ''Tonight was a battle,'' Giants star Buster Posey said. ''And I think tonight was a fitting way for us to end it because those guys played hard. They didn't stop, and it's an unbelievable feeling.'' ''Detroit probably didn't know what it was in for,'' Giants general manager Brian Sabean said. ''Our guys had a date with destiny.''
''Tonight was a battle,'' Giants star Buster Posey said. ''And I think tonight was a fitting way for us to end it because those guys played hard. They didn't stop, and it's an unbelievable feeling.''
Posey, the only player who was in the starting lineup when San Francisco beat Texas in the 2010 clincher, and the underdog Giants celebrated in the center of the diamond at Comerica Park.
Posey put the Giants ahead 3-2 with a two-run homer in the sixth and Delmon Young hit a tying home run in the bottom half. It then became a matchup of bullpens, and the Giants prevailed. Ryan Theriot led off the 10th with a single against Phil Coke, moved up on Brandon Crawford's sacrifice and scored on a shallow single by Scutaro, the MVP of the NL championship series. Center fielder Austin Jackson made a throw home, to no avail.
I think what happened to Detroit was the layoff that they had from sweeping the Yankee's in the ALCS. They had more than a week off, and you would think that would help a team, yet it did not. The only thing the layoff did for the Tigers was make them sloppy. The pitching was horrendous, they bats disappeared, and the players just looked like they didn't care anymore. But what surprised me the most, was how quick this postseason went for the MLB. It was over in a blink of an eye. The excitement of late inning games, and game 7's, just didn't happen this season. It's quite sad to see, if you love baseball, you just don't want it to end.
I'm sorry to have to say this to you baseball lovers out there, but it's Football season, and hopefully soon it will be Hockey season. All good things must come to an end, and for the Tigers, it ended in extra innings in game four of the World Series.
Read more at http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/san-francisco-giants-beat-detroit-tigers-four-games-win-world-series-02812
Until next time,
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