Giant Sweep In Detroit

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The San Francisco Giants are baseball's world champions for the second time in three years, defeating the Detroit Tigers 4-3 in 10 innings at Comerica Park to take the World Series in four games.  It was a single by Marco Scutaro in the tenth that brought Ryan Theriot across home plate for the winning run.

Pablo Sandoval of the Giants had set the tone in Game 1 by becoming the fourth man to hit three home runs in a World Series game (Babe Ruth, Reggie Jackson and Albert Pujols were the others).  After that, the Giants' pitching of Ryan Vogelsong, Madison Bumgarner and Tim Lincecum shut down the Tigers' bats so effectively that they didn't score a run for two games.

For the Giants, they got here the hard way, trailing in their National League playoff series against Cincinnati and St. Louis before coming back to win.  For the Tigers, they had beaten Oakland in five games and swept the New York Yankees to win the American League pennant.

The Giants won the world championship without the help of Melky Cabrera, who was leading the National League in batting before being suspended for 50 games by Major League Baseball for using banned substances.  The suspension has since been lifted, but the Giants wanted nothing to do with Cabrera as he is about to be a free agent.  Bet he's kicking himself now.

Once again, the City By The Bay has a world champion, and a rather unlikely one too.  The Giants don't get much notice beyond the West Coast, so most of its players are unknowns to the rest of the country.  But here they are, holding a World Series trophy and a spot in baseball history.