From the San Francisco Chronicle: They say the best team does not always win the World Series.
Sometimes the hottest team swoops in and flies away with the trophy.
Baseball lovers across the world can spend the months between now and spring training arguing whether the Giants were the best in 2012, or whether they merely had the hottest hand when all of the chips were in the middle of the table.
The
Giants can be forgiven for not joining the debate, at least not now.
They are too busy celebrating San Francisco's second championship in
three seasons, which they went overtime to clinch on a frigid Sunday
night at Comerica Park.
They won 4-3 when Marco Scutaro, the little Giant whom teammates call "Blockbuster," hit a two-out RBI single against Phil Coke. Sergio Romo struck out the side - finishing with a called third strike on Miguel Cabrera - to set off a celebration in San Francisco the likes of which the city has not seen in oh, about two years.
They
also completed a four-game sweep that sounds as implausible as the
three-win comebacks against the Reds and Cardinals that kept their
now-historic season alive.
No question the Giants were not. They
won their final seven games, longer than any winning streak they enjoyed
in a 94-win regular season.
The Giants' achievement is rare in an era of improved parity and expanded playoffs. The joined the Yankees,
Marlins, Cardinals and Red Sox as the only teams to win multiple World
Series since the playoff field was doubled from four to eight teams
in 1995.
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