We've made it this far.
We beat out the Padres, the Braves, and then the Phillies and never looked back.
Talk about high scoring games!
Together, in world series games 1 &2, the Giants have managed to score a total of 21 Runs against the Texas Rangers -- in a world series game.
It hadn't really sunk in until Wednesday night when Freddy Sanchez was busy smacking doubles all over the field.
Then Uribe blasted one out into the bleacher seats, and then it really set in.
"Oh man, we're in the world series..."
O'Day came in as relief, and Uribe just squared up and swung. The guy's E.R.A was infinity, 1-run over 0 innings pitched.
Game 1 was expected to be a pitchers duel. A low-scoring square off between ace Tim Linecum and the Rangers' star pitcher, Cliff Lee. It didn't start out a pitchers duel. The Giants actually had to come from behind because Lincecum didn't have his command early on, giving the Rangers an early 2-0 lead at AT&T Park in the 1st inning. Since it was early, no one was panicking. The Giants aren't huge on offense, but I guess they were really excited.
Game 2 was a 9 run shut out of our Texan opponents. With CJ Wilson on the mound with his electric blue glove, the Giants produced the in the 5th, putting themselves 1-run ahead. The much indicated pitching duel of game 1 came during game 2, Matt Cain pitching a MASTERPIECE, still hanging on to that E.R.A of 0.00.
Edgar Renteria proved to be helpful and productive in games 1&2, offensively and defensively, not missing a beat. Renteria played short, moving Uribe over to third, putting Pablo Sandoval on the bench. I reckon (I really just said that out loud, it's all this Texan stuff) that he'll be at short in Texas as well.
Edgar Renteria, the world series rally starter, hit a home run into right field off of Wilson in the 5th to put the Giants ahead by 1. We also decided to rack up some insurance runs along the way. At one point, it was 2-insurance runs. As usual, it was Cody Ross who broke up Texas' no-hit game early on with a double. Cody came home twice, and walked twice, in addition to his double. Monday night, he earned an RBI during the 5th inning rally. Aubrey Huff has also been producing, especially when we need him most. It seems that he can hit balls through the holes, and like Cody manages to find the grass, if not the bleachers.
Matt Cain left the game to a standing ovation after getting himself into a slight situation. Slight. Javier Lopez came in and as usual took care of business by finishing Hamilton on two pitches, putting away the main threat.
After an exciting 6-run rally in the 5th in Game 1 of the World Series, the Giants decided to pull together a 7-run rally in the 8th -- with 2-outs. It was bottom of the 8th, with 2-outs forever. We scored all 7 of those runs with 2-outs. Texas played with their bullpen after their pitchers issued a number of walks. We scored on a number of walks, and loaded the bases on walks. With two outs, we swept through our line up once. The Ranger bullpen was rarely ahead in the count. Renteria singled, Rowand tripled and Torres doubled clearing the bases, and putting us ahead of Texas by 9-runs.
Texas I guess wasn't having fun and just wanted it to be over. We called to our bullpen, and the Texans went quietly as the park erupted in cheers.
Over the last 3 games, our pitchers, Sanchez, Lincecum AND Cain have been able to get on base. Sanchez and Cain both singled, and Linecum got on via an error. Point being, it's kind of rare...Madison Bumgarner can handle the bat well, so we'll hope that when he gets his chance to pitch, he can get on base as well.
It's been quite the week.
Spirit week at school, and the World Series...and Halloween coming up just as the Giants head to Arlington in Texas.
we're here in the world series (it's settled in -- I got my Cody Ross jersey today with the World Series patch on it) and we're fucking loving every bit of it
Texas might have cowboys, but
we're equipped with a team of misfits (one of whom is a rodeo clown),
Don't mess with Texas? PUH-LEASE.
Y'ALL AIN'T GOT NUTHIN ON US.
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