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The Giants overcame a 2-0 deficit to beat Cincinnati in the best-of-five division series and escaped a 3-1 hole against St. Louis in the NLCS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loss certainly left the favored Tigers wondering what else could go wrong. Prince Fielder was thrown out at the plate by a hair and moments later starting pitcher Doug Fister was struck squarely in the head by a line drive. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 6-foot-8 Fister managed to stay on the mound, and even excelled. Bumgarner more than matched him, however, allowing just two hits before the San Francisco bullpen closed it out before another pulsating crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santiago Casilla pitched a perfect eighth and Sergio Romo worked the ninth for a save in the combined two-hitter, leaving Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera in a huge hole heading back to Comerica Park. 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The left-hander struck out eight and looked as sharp as he did in the 2010 World Series when, as a 21-year-old rookie, he stopped Texas in Game 4 on the way to a championship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This game was scoreless in the seventh when the Giants went ahead, right after actor Tom Hanks — a former peanut vendor at the nearby Oakland Coliseum — sang \"Take Me Out to the Ball Game\" on the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pence led off with a single and Fister departed, getting lots of hugs in the dugout. 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(Photo by Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pablo Sandoval became just the fourth player to hit three home runs in a World Series game, connecting twice against Justin Verlander and once off Al Alburquerque to lead the San Francisco Giants over the Detroit Tigers 8-3 in Wednesday night's opener.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandoval hit a solo home run to right-center in the first, a two-run, opposite-field drive to left in the third and another bases-empty shot into the center-field batter's eye in the fifth. He joined Babe Ruth (1926 and 1928), Reggie Jackson (1977) and Albert Pujols (2011) as the only players with three-homer games in the Series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barry Zito, who like Sandoval watched the 2010 Series opener from the dugout, won by allowing one run and six hits in 5 2-3 innings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandoval went 4 for 4 with four RBIs, also singling in the seventh against Jose Valverde. He became the first Giants player with a three-homer game at home since Barry Bonds in August 1994 at Candlestick Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Verlander was chased after allowing five runs and six hits in four innings, his shortest start this year. He threw 98 pitches, and Detroit manager Jim Leyland could alter his rotation and start him in Game 4 on short rest instead of Max Scherzer. That would enable Verlander to pitch a possible Game 7, again on three days' rest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Verlander was 0-2 as a rookie in the 2006 Series against St. Louis but had been superb this October, entering with a 3-0 record and a 0.74 ERA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madison Bumgarner, 0-2 with an 11.25 ERA for the Giants in two postseason outings, starts Game 2 on Thursday against Detroit's Doug Fister, who has a 1.35 ERA with no decisions in two postseason appearances this year. The Series then shifts to the Motor City for Game 3 on Saturday. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The winner of the opener has claimed the title 66 of 107 times, including eight of last nine. The NL is seeking to win three straight Series for first time since 1979-82.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandoval hit the first bases-loaded triple in All-Star game history off Verlander in July, and kept on going against the reigning AL MVP and Cy Young Award winner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He connected on a high 95 mph pitch with an 0-2 count in the first inning and sent the ball just over the wall in right-center. Then, on the very next pitch after a mound visit by Tigers pitching coach Jeff Jones in the third, Sandoval hit a two-run, opposite-field drive into the seats in left for a 4-0 lead. Verlander simply said, \"Wow!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=25446817&topic_id=37974284\">\u003cstrong>Video: Sandoval's third home run\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Sandoval had been benched for four of five games in the Giants' 2010 Series win over Texas when he entered in a 3-for-14 slide. The Giants then told Sandoval, nicknamed Kung Fu Panda for his roly-poly physique, to get in shape or start the next season in the minor leagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winning by home run is unusual for the Giants, whose 103 home runs were last in the major leagues. The only other three-homer game at the ballpark was by the Los Angeles Dodgers' Kevin Elster in the very first opener, in 2000. The last three-homer game by a Giant was Aubrey Huff at St. Louis in June 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel Pagan had another of the Giants' unusual postseason hits with two outs in the third when his one-hopper kicked off the corner of the third-base bag and ricocheted past Miguel Cabrera at almost a right angle into short left field. Marco Scutaro, who struck out just once in 48 at-bats during the NL playoffs, fouled off two 98 mph full-count pitches and lined a single into center field to bring up Sandoval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zito, dropped from the Giants' roster for the 2010 postseason after a four-year slump, finally justified the $126 million, seven-year contract the Giants gave him after the 2006 season. The 2002 AL Cy Young Award winner was helped when left fielder Gregor Blanco made neat diving grabs of liners by Cabrera in the third and Prince Fielder in the sixth. Given a 6-0 lead, Zito gave up an RBI single in the sixth to Cabrera, baseball's first Triple Crown winner in 45 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jhonny Peralta hit a two-run homer for the Tigers in the ninth off mop-up reliever George Kontos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zito added an opposite-field RBI single to left in the fourth. After getting just four hits during the regular season, Zito has singles in consecutive postseason appearances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Lincecum, who won twice in the 2010 Series, came out of the bullpen with two on and two outs in the sixth and struck out Jhonny Peralta. The two-time Cy Young winner retired seven in a row, striking out five.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scutaro and NL batting champion Buster Posey added RBI singles in the seventh against Valverde, pitching for the first time since allowing a pair of two-run homers in the ninth inning of the AL championship series opener. Valverde's postseason ERA this year rose to 30.38.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coming off its first AL pennant since 2006, Detroit had nearly a week off after sweeping the New York Yankees in the AL championship series. San Francisco had just a day to rest after overcoming a 3-1 deficit against defending champion St. Louis in the NLCS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Detroit had just the seventh-best record in the 14-team AL at 88-74, and no previous World Series team had been lower than fifth, according to STATS LLC. San Francisco was tied for third in the NL at 94-68.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in San Francisco's bayside ballpark for the second time in three years, the World Series took on the Giants' Halloween colors of orange and black as fans waved towels and pompons. The Grateful Dead's \"I Will Survive\" and \"Friend of the Devil\" were among the songs played as the Tigers took batting practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renel Brooks-Moon, who in 2002 became the first woman to be serve as public-address announcer for a Series game, skipped over Detroit's reserves during the pregame introductions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall of Famers Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Gaylord Perry and Orlando Cepeda were on the field for the ceremonial first pitch — thrown by Perry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Detroit also brought along some baseball royalty in Hall of Famer Al Kaline, a team adviser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeking their first World Series title since 1984, the Tigers helped create the first title matchup between teams from the AL Central and NL West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NOTES: This was the Giants' 50th World Series win. ... The team hosting the first two games has won 21 of the last 26 World Series: the exceptions were Toronto (1992), the Yankees (1999), Florida (2003), St. Louis (2006) and Philadelphia (2008). ... Cabrera became the fourth player to appear in the Series in the year he won the Triple Crown, joining Mickey Mantle (1956), Frank Robinson (1966) and Carl Yastrzemski (1967). ... Delmon Young hit into only the second 2-4 double play in postseason play, with Fielder tagged out at second. The other was on a bunt by the Boston Braves' Sibby Sistsy in Game 6 of the 1948 World Series, STATS said. ... Sandoval became only the fifth player to homer twice off Verlander in the same game, joining Oakland's Nick Swisher (2006), Carlos Quentin of the Chicago White Sox (2011), Cleveland's Shelley Duncan (2001) and Tampa Bay's Desmond Jennings (June 29).\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The NL is seeking to win three straight Series for first time since 1979-82.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandoval hit the first bases-loaded triple in All-Star game history off Verlander in July, and kept on going against the reigning AL MVP and Cy Young Award winner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He connected on a high 95 mph pitch with an 0-2 count in the first inning and sent the ball just over the wall in right-center. Then, on the very next pitch after a mound visit by Tigers pitching coach Jeff Jones in the third, Sandoval hit a two-run, opposite-field drive into the seats in left for a 4-0 lead. Verlander simply said, \"Wow!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=25446817&topic_id=37974284\">\u003cstrong>Video: Sandoval's third home run\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Sandoval had been benched for four of five games in the Giants' 2010 Series win over Texas when he entered in a 3-for-14 slide. The Giants then told Sandoval, nicknamed Kung Fu Panda for his roly-poly physique, to get in shape or start the next season in the minor leagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winning by home run is unusual for the Giants, whose 103 home runs were last in the major leagues. The only other three-homer game at the ballpark was by the Los Angeles Dodgers' Kevin Elster in the very first opener, in 2000. The last three-homer game by a Giant was Aubrey Huff at St. Louis in June 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel Pagan had another of the Giants' unusual postseason hits with two outs in the third when his one-hopper kicked off the corner of the third-base bag and ricocheted past Miguel Cabrera at almost a right angle into short left field. Marco Scutaro, who struck out just once in 48 at-bats during the NL playoffs, fouled off two 98 mph full-count pitches and lined a single into center field to bring up Sandoval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zito, dropped from the Giants' roster for the 2010 postseason after a four-year slump, finally justified the $126 million, seven-year contract the Giants gave him after the 2006 season. The 2002 AL Cy Young Award winner was helped when left fielder Gregor Blanco made neat diving grabs of liners by Cabrera in the third and Prince Fielder in the sixth. Given a 6-0 lead, Zito gave up an RBI single in the sixth to Cabrera, baseball's first Triple Crown winner in 45 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jhonny Peralta hit a two-run homer for the Tigers in the ninth off mop-up reliever George Kontos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zito added an opposite-field RBI single to left in the fourth. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>by Valerie Hamilton, \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201210240850/b\">The California Report\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Giants will play the first game of the 2012 World Series tonight after what may have been the comeback of the year — beating the Cardinals three straight to win the National League title.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Game Seven’s triumphant last pitch was thrown by closer Sergio Romo, a native of California’s Imperial Valley. Romo’s baseball career started in Brawley, California, on a pitcher’s mound in the backyard of his companies. It’s about 50 feet from the back window, with predictable results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78914\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/RomoShrine.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-78914\" title=\"RomoShrine\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/RomoShrine-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank and Leticia Romo\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Sergio was playing, and I guess they were trying to get each other out. And Sergio threw the ball — and he broke that window!” says Leticia Romo, Sergio’s mom. “I don’t want to fix it because, but I told him, whenever you make it up there you’re going to have to fix it yourself. So I’m waiting for him to come and fix it still.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Romo weighs in: “It didn’t surprise me. He also broke the neighbors’ light fixture. I asked him, ‘Why are you doing that mi hijo?’ He said, ‘I just wanted to see if I could hit it.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/26/how-cute-is-sergio-romo/\">Sergio Romo Emerging as a Star\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Brawley, California is a long way from the lights of AT&T Park. About 25,000 people live in this farm town, out in the desert scrubland. Main Street is a dusty arcade of shuttered stores. Unemployment is over 30 percent, among the highest in the state. There’s no big college, no stadium. The only big city nearby is Mexicali, Mexico, 22 miles to the south. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Brawley would be probably like a slightly bigger version of Mayberry, although not quite as nice,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/seaneru01.shtml\">Rudy Seanez\u003c/a>, who pitched in the major leagues for 17 years, ending in 2008. Like Romo, he grew up in Brawley. So did \u003ca href=\"http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/fowlkal01.shtml\">Alan Fowlkes\u003c/a>, who pitched for the 1982 Giants. And so did \u003ca href=\"http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mongesi01.shtml\">Sid Monge\u003c/a>, who pitched in the 1970s and 80s. It turns out Brawley’s sugar beets and melons have some competition for the town’s top-produced crop. The town, and the Imperial Valley around it, have sent more than 20 players to the major and minor leagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I wish I could tell you it’s because we have this special water, it’s not,” says Pedro Carranza, who played pro ball for the Colorado Rockies. Now he coaches Brawley’s high school team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mid-October, the desert climate isn’t ideal for baseball practice, the temperature often hitting the mid-90s. But in the winter, when most of the U.S. is packing away its bats and gloves, baseball in Mexico is still going strong. And that may be the secret to Brawley’s success: Mexicali’s winter leagues, a half-hour down the road, are open to amateurs and pros alike. That means Brawley high schoolers can train across the border alongside professionals looking for a game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For instance, I was 16 and playing against men 30 years old, 35 years old,” says Pedro Carranza. “You’re playing against some good ballplayers. \u003ca href=\"http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=lechug001enr\">Enrique Lechuga\u003c/a>, who played with the White Sox, who is in the Mexican League right now. \u003ca href=\"http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=arball001jul\">Julian Arballo\u003c/a> also played with the Yankees, same thing, they’re playing in Mexicali this week, and any one of my high school kids if he plays down there, he’s facing one of those guys.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Mexican Americans have played baseball across the border here for generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sergio’s granddad played in Mexicali,” says Carranza. “Sergio’s dad played in Mexicali; Sergio played in Mexicali.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Says Seanez: “You’ve got some of the teammates saying I played with your grandfather. I played with your uncle, or this or that or the other. This is like wow, its roots, spreading out all over the place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those roots mean everything to Frank Romo, who came to Brawley from Mexico as a child. He cut his own baseball career short to work the fields; his father before him did the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Diablos Rojos, the professional team from Mexico City, they wanted to sign my dad,” ways Romo. “But he couldn’t go either, because he had a lot of work on the farm. Ive been living dreams through my kids. And Sergio, he’s a major league baseball player, this is his fifth season, can you believe that? It’s awesome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Johnny’s Burritos, downtown, the next generation of players from Brawley Union High line up for a carbo-loaded lunch of fries with cheese. Todd Marquez sits at a picnic table with some teammates. He says Brawley’s secret baseball recipe is no secret at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People from Brawley just love to play baseball and they just don’t give up. Just keep on trying hard till they get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brawley players have made it to three World Series so far — this year is the fourth. They’ve won every time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201210240850/b\">audio version\u003c/a> of this report:\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78850\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/151283312.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-78850\" title=\"Arizona Diamondbacks v San Francisco Giants\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/151283312-1024x716.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"447\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Giants' Brandon Crawford slides across home plate at AT&T Park in September. Tony Medina/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Well Giants fans, this is it. You’ve been with the team through the ups and downs of the first half of the season. You stayed with them when Melky Cabrera was suspended. You cheered as they rallied to the NL West championship. You hung on as they won six elimination games in the postseason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now they’re just one opponent and one series away from another World Series title.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's everything you need to know about their opponent, the series and how you can root the Giants onto the championship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS VS. DETROIT TIGERS\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>SCHEDULE \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>\u003cbr>\nFirst pitch 5 p.m.\u003cbr>\nGame 1: \u003cstrong>Final Score: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/24/giants-beat-tigers-in-game-1-as-sandoval-hits-3-homers/\">Giants 8, Tigers 3\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Pablo Sandoval hits three home runs to lead the Giants to the win. \u003cstrong>Giants lead series 1-0\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nGame 2: \u003cstrong>Final Score:\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/25/live-blog-at-445-p-m-tigers-vs-giants-world-series-game-2/\">Giants 2, Tigers 0\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Madison Bumgarner shuts down the Tigers offense. \u003cstrong>Giants lead series 2-0\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nGame 3: \u003cstrong>Final Score:\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/28/giants-blank-tigers-in-game-3-game-4-to-be-shown-in-civic-center-plaza/\">Giants 2, Tigers 0\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Giants become the first team to throw consecutive Series shutouts in nearly a half-century. \u003cstrong>Giants lead series 3-0\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nGame 4: \u003cstrong>Final Score: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/28/giants-sweep-tigers-for-2nd-world-series-win-in-three-years/\">Giants 4, Tigers 3, 10 innings\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Marco Scutaro's 10th-inning scores Ryan Theriot to give the Giants the lead; Sergio Romo strikes out Miguel Cabrera to end the series and complete the sweep. \u003cstrong>Giants win series 4-0\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HOW TO WATCH\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TV\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/\">KTVU\u003c/a> Channel 2 for Comcast subscribers in San Francisco\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Radio\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"http://www.knbr.com/\">KNBR 680 AM\u003c/a> in the Bay Area.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Online:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://espn.go.com/espnradio/play?s=espn%20and%20the%20ESPN%20Radio\">ESPN Radio\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://espn.go.com/espnradio/story/_/id/8131870/espn-radio-your-mobile-device\">mobile app\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Twitter:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/search?q=%23SFGiants&src=typd\">#SFGiants\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/search?q=%23postseason&src=typd\">#postseason\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/search?q=%23orangeoctober&src=typd\">#OrangeOctober\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HOW THEY GOT HERE\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Giants are coming into the World Series on a roll, having overcome a 3-1 deficit in the NLCS with a 9-0 defeat of the St. Louis Cardinals in a dramatic Game 7. It was the sixth time the team faced elimination and won in this postseason. The Giants also won 30 of its last 44 games to take the NL West title. Detroit, meanwhile, has already beaten one Bay Area team in the postseason - it dispatched the Oakland A’s in the division series. The Tigers then swept the New York Yankees to win the AL pennant. Detroit finished the regular season as the AL Central champions with an 88-74 record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>WHAT TO WATCH FOR\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tigers’ starting pitcher Justin Verlander perfectly captures the national media's narrative of an Elite Pitcher leading his team to World Series glory. He throws 98 mph fastballs and his wicked curveballs vex hitters. Another Tigers threat is their fantastic hitter, Miguel Cabrera. And those two might be why Detroit is favored to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Tigers have their weaknesses too. As Marty Lurie, Giants pre-game and post-game host for KNBR 680, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201210231000\">said on Forum\u003c/a>, Verlander is talented, but he can't pitch every game, and the Tigers' bullpen can be shaky. The Giants will try to grind out wins in their typical fashion – starting pitching that rises to the occasion, great relief work, solid defense, and an underestimated offense that seems to score runs in bunches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HOW TO SCORE TICKETS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re looking to buy World Series tickets from the Giants now, you’re already about two weeks too late. The deadline to enter the team’s random drawing for the opportunity to buy tickets was Oct. 10. However, for those willing to pay a price, standing-room-only tickets currently run on Craigslist for about $350 each; the most expensive ticket on StubHub is $638, though most are around $400.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>WHERE TO WATCH\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you can't make it to the actual games, the next best thing is watching with your fellow fans. We put a call out to \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/KQED/posts/10151054426361191\">KQED’s Facebook fans\u003c/a> and Twitter followers and asked them where to go to watch the series. Here are their suggestions, as well as some of the better-reviewed bars for watching baseball from \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com\">Yelp\u003c/a> and other sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/yancys-saloon-san-francisco\">Yancy's Saloon\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: 734 Irving St., San Francisco. Several of KQED's Facebook fans recommend Yancy's, which also is described as a prototypical sports bar on Yelp. \"This is a place to hang out with your friends and everyone is casually dressed. No attitudes or snottiness to be found here,\" one reviewer wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://doubleplaysf.com/\">The Double Play\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: 2401 16th St., San Francisco. Suggested by Facebook fan Chad Wagner, The Double Play is an old-school sports bar which has five televisions and 12 beers on tap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.acesbarsf.com/\">Ace’s\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: 998 Sutter St., San Francisco. This suggestion came from Facebook fan Kimberly Crawford. Ace’s has oversized leather couches and five flat screen televisions and it defines itself as a neighborhood bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.540-club.com/\">The 540 Club\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: 540 Clement St., San Francisco: Facebook fan Ryan Schubert made this suggestion, saying it “was packed (for Game 7) and was absolutely awesome back in 2010.” It’s worthwhile to note that the club prides itself on having some of the city’s crankiest bartenders, so tread lightly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://hi5catering.com/\">High Five Pizza\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: 171 Branham Lane, San Jose: High Five calls itself “the friendliest restaurant in the San Jose area.” The bar and restaurant has more than 14 televisions and is family-friendly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://oldpropa.com/\">The Old Pro\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: 541 Ramona Street, Palo Alto. Twitter user @sweetd_cali suggested the Old Pro, which has been around for nearly 50 years. The Old Pro has been called one of Palo Alto’s best sports bars; a Yelp review notes it has “Plenty of large screen TV's, seating at the bar and communal dining tables And yep, they have a mechanical bull.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mcgeesbarandgrill.com/\">McGee’s Bar & Grill\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: 1645 Park St., Alameda: Based on the Yelp reviews, McGee’s might be worth the trip over the bridge or through the tunnel if you’re seeking a no-frills viewing experience. “It's dark, dingy and smells like beer. It's really all you can ask for in a bar,” states one review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mccoveys.com/\">McCovey’s Restaurant\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: 1444 North California Boulevard, Walnut Creek. Named one of \u003ca href=\"http://espn.go.com/espn/thelife/news/story?id=2974648\">ESPN’s top 10 baseball bars\u003c/a>, the memorabilia-filled McCovey’s is designed to look like AT&T Park. More importantly, it has 40 televisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.georgeandwalts.com/\">George & Walt’s\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: 5445 College Ave., Oakland. George & Walts has been around for more than 80 years, and it prides itself on being a neighborhood sports bar. One of the most popular words used to describe the establishment on Yelp.com is “friendly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED staff contributed to this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It was the sixth time the team faced elimination and won in this postseason. The Giants also won 30 of its last 44 games to take the NL West title. Detroit, meanwhile, has already beaten one Bay Area team in the postseason - it dispatched the Oakland A’s in the division series. The Tigers then swept the New York Yankees to win the AL pennant. Detroit finished the regular season as the AL Central champions with an 88-74 record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>WHAT TO WATCH FOR\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tigers’ starting pitcher Justin Verlander perfectly captures the national media's narrative of an Elite Pitcher leading his team to World Series glory. He throws 98 mph fastballs and his wicked curveballs vex hitters. Another Tigers threat is their fantastic hitter, Miguel Cabrera. And those two might be why Detroit is favored to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Tigers have their weaknesses too. As Marty Lurie, Giants pre-game and post-game host for KNBR 680, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201210231000\">said on Forum\u003c/a>, Verlander is talented, but he can't pitch every game, and the Tigers' bullpen can be shaky. The Giants will try to grind out wins in their typical fashion – starting pitching that rises to the occasion, great relief work, solid defense, and an underestimated offense that seems to score runs in bunches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HOW TO SCORE TICKETS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re looking to buy World Series tickets from the Giants now, you’re already about two weeks too late. The deadline to enter the team’s random drawing for the opportunity to buy tickets was Oct. 10. However, for those willing to pay a price, standing-room-only tickets currently run on Craigslist for about $350 each; the most expensive ticket on StubHub is $638, though most are around $400.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>WHERE TO WATCH\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you can't make it to the actual games, the next best thing is watching with your fellow fans. We put a call out to \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/KQED/posts/10151054426361191\">KQED’s Facebook fans\u003c/a> and Twitter followers and asked them where to go to watch the series. Here are their suggestions, as well as some of the better-reviewed bars for watching baseball from \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com\">Yelp\u003c/a> and other sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/yancys-saloon-san-francisco\">Yancy's Saloon\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: 734 Irving St., San Francisco. Several of KQED's Facebook fans recommend Yancy's, which also is described as a prototypical sports bar on Yelp. \"This is a place to hang out with your friends and everyone is casually dressed. No attitudes or snottiness to be found here,\" one reviewer wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://doubleplaysf.com/\">The Double Play\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: 2401 16th St., San Francisco. Suggested by Facebook fan Chad Wagner, The Double Play is an old-school sports bar which has five televisions and 12 beers on tap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.acesbarsf.com/\">Ace’s\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: 998 Sutter St., San Francisco. This suggestion came from Facebook fan Kimberly Crawford. 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"content": "\u003cp>The San Francisco Giants have a day to dry out and rest up from the National League Championship Series, which ended in a torrential downpour that hit just before the final outs of the 9-0 victory over the defending champion St. Louis Cardinals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78777\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/yeswecain.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-78777\" title=\"yeswecain\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/yeswecain-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Scott Shafer/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Giants second baseman Marco Scutaro \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/giants/shea/article/Scutaro-does-it-all-to-earn-NLCS-MVP-3972800.php\" target=\"_blank\">was named the Most Valuable Player for the series\u003c/a>, both for his defensive prowess and for becoming the first player in history with six multiple-hit games in a League Championship Series. Scutaro was acquired by the Giants in a trade with Colorado in late July. He's played for seven other teams in his major league career including the Oakland A's, and he'll turn 37 next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the downpour began in the ninth inning, Scutaro \u003ca href=\"http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/23/marco-scutaro-rain-king/\" target=\"_blank\">put his head back and drank in the rain with an ecstatic expression\u003c/a> before catching Matt Holliday's popup to end the game. At a postgame press conference, the infielder laughed about his moment of Zen. \"Kinda weird, it never rains here in the Bay Area. I spent four years in Oakland and I don't think it rained once. But you know, when I woke up this morning, I just said to myself, whatever happens today, just try to enjoy the moment and go out there and have fun.\" \u003c!--more-->\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/10/23/world/americas/ap-bbo-world-series-venezuela.html?hp&_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">The AP notes\u003c/a> that Scutaro is one of a record nine players in the World Series who come from Venezuela.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Game One, the Tigers will call on their ace, Justin Verlander, who started the All-Star Game for the American League. There's some irony in that choice. \"He went out in Kansas City [for the All-Star Game],\" says sports journalist Rick Tittle, \"and threw 100 miles per hour, but he was very cavalier about his performance, saying the fans just want to see triple digits on the radar gun. He gave up five runs in the first inning and lost the game, costing the American League -- and thus his team -- home-field advantage [in the World Series]. And now he wishes he had taken the All-Star Game a little bit more seriously.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Giants should take Verlander seriously, though; he has been practically unhittable during the postseason. The Tigers had to fight through all five games with the A's in the AL Division Series, but then swept the Yankees in the second round to win the pennant last Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Giants haven't announced their starting pitcher yet, but many expect \u003ca href=\"http://www.csnbayarea.com/baseball-san-francisco-giants/giants-talk/EXTRA-BAGGS-Zito-would-savor-World-Serie?blockID=792229&feedID=10850\" target=\"_blank\">Barry Zito will be rewarded with that spot because of his strong performance\u003c/a> in Game 5 of the championship series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tickets for the four potential World Series games in San Francisco are sold out, but resales are available for those who have the cash. Prices on StubHub and craigslist start at $400 for standing room and $450 for the bleachers. The Tigers' Verlander is \u003ca href=\"http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/sports/justin-verlander-giving-away-personal-world-series-tickets-on-twitter\" target=\"_blank\">giving his tickets away to a lucky few of his Twitter followers\u003c/a>, but unfortunately for Giants fans, they're only for games in Detroit.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Giants manager Bruce Bochy insisted before Monday's game he had not planned any further in advance.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/23/how-the-giants-and-their-fans-celebrated-an-nl-pennant-win\">Photos: the Giants and Fans Celebrate\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Series MVP Marco Scutaro produced his sixth multihit game of the series and matched an LCS record with 14 hits and Pablo Sandoval drove in a run for his fifth straight game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After falling behind 3-1 in the series at Busch Stadium, the Giants outscored the wild-card Cardinals 20-1 over the final three games behind stellar starting pitching from Barry Zito, Ryan Vogelsong and Cain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also benefited from some strange bounces. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Pence's double that highlighted a five-run third, his bat broke at the label on impact, then the broken barrel hit the ball twice more. That put a rolling, slicing spin on the ball and caused it to change directions — leaving shortstop Pete Kozma little chance to make the play. Kozma broke to his right, figuring that's where the ball would go, but it instead curved to left-center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>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 Scutaro to end it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romo embraced catcher Buster Posey as fireworks went off over McCovey Cove beyond right field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NL West champion Giants won their first postseason clincher at home since the 2002 NLCS, also against the Cardinals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These 2012 Giants have a couple of pretty talented castoffs of their own not so different from that winning combination of 2010 \"castoffs and misfits\" as Bochy referred to his bunch — with Scutaro right there at the top of the list this time around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acquired July 27 from the division rival Colorado Rockies, Scutaro hit .500 (14 for 28) with four RBIs in the NLCS. The 36-year-old journeyman infielder, playing in his second postseason and first since 2006 with Oakland, became the first player in major league history with six multihit games in an LCS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, he's headed to his first World Series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Giants have All-Star game MVP Melky Cabrera to thank for helping his teammates secure home-field advantage in the postseason — while Cain was the winning pitcher the National League's 8-0 victory in July. Cabrera was suspended 50 games Aug. 15 for a positive testosterone test, then wasn't added to the roster by the Giants after his suspension ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After rain fell on the Cardinals during batting practice, the skies turned blue and the weather cooperated. Anxious players on both sides hung over the dugout rails as the game began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cain joined St. Louis' Chris Carpenter as the only pitchers with victories in two winner-take-all games in the same postseason. Carpenter, who lost Games 2 and 6 in this series, did it last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cain also pitched the Giants' Game 5 division series clincher at Cincinnati, when San Francisco became the first team in major league history to come back from an 0-2 deficit in a five-game series by winning three consecutive road games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He delivered on an even bigger stage Monday as San Francisco saved its season once again. The Giants won their 20th NL pennant and reached their 19th World Series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cain walked off the mound to a standing ovation when Jeremy Affeldt entered with two outs in the sixth. Affeldt then got Daniel Descalso to pop out with two runners on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yadier Molina had four hits but got little help from the rest of the Cardinals, who went 1 for 21 with runners in scoring position over their final three games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cain added an RBI single to his cause and got some sparkling defense behind him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The play of the game went to shortstop Brandon Crawford, who made a leaping catch of Kyle Lohse's liner to end the second inning with runners on second and third that would have been a run-scoring hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the third, Scutaro, the second baseman, made a tough stop on a short hop by Carlos Beltran, and left fielder Gregor Blanco ran down a hard-hit ball by Allen Craig in left-center to end the inning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cain's second-inning single made San Francisco the first team in major league postseason history to have a starting pitcher drive in a run in three straight games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brandon Belt hit a solo homer in the eighth for his first clout of the postseason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took production from everybody, even the pitchers, for these scrappy Giants to rally back from the brink one more time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cain certainly did his part to keep the staff rolling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 16-game winner, who didn't surrender an earned run during his team's title run two years ago, reached 46 pitches through two innings but settled in nicely the rest of the way to avenge a loss to Lohse in Game 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cain even got to repay Holliday for his hard slide into Scutaro at second base in Game 2 here a week earlier. Cain plunked Holliday in the upper left arm leading off the sixth, drawing cheers from the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The right-hander escaped trouble in the second with runners on second and third when Crawford made his catch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holliday returned to the lineup after missing Game 6 a night earlier with tightness in his lower back. He received loud boos when he stepped in to hit in the first from a fan base still angry about his slide that injured Scutaro's hip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beltran is still left 0-fer the World Series, winless in three Game 7s during his 15-year career. And to think just last fall he was on the other side with the Giants as they missed the playoffs a year after winning the club's first World Series since moving West in 1958.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cardinals went an NL-best 12-4 from Sept. 16 to the end of the season to earn the NL's second wild card on the second-to-last day of the season, then won 6-3 in a winner-take-all playoff at Atlanta to reach the division series. The Cardinals then rallied from a 6-0 deficit with a four-run ninth inning to stun the Washington Nationals 9-7 in Game 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scutaro joined Hideki Matsui (2004 Yankees), Albert Pujols (2004 Cardinals) and Kevin Youkilis (2007 Red Sox) with 14 hits in a league championship series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandoval's run-scoring groundout in the first that put his team ahead gave him at least one RBI in five straight postseason games, matching home run king Barry Bonds' franchise record set in 2002.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NOTES: The Giants snapped an 0-5 skid in deciding Game 7s. ... The Tigers and Giants will meet for the first time in the postseason. ... Beltran stole his third base of the postseason in the first, making him 11 for 11 in his postseason career — most in a postseason without being caught. ... This was the first NLCS Game 7 since 2006, when the Cardinals beat the Mets and Beltran struck out looking against Adam Wainwright with the bases loaded to end it. ... The Giants are 11-17 in franchise history facing elimination.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Kozma broke to his right, figuring that's where the ball would go, but it instead curved to left-center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>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 Scutaro to end it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romo embraced catcher Buster Posey as fireworks went off over McCovey Cove beyond right field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NL West champion Giants won their first postseason clincher at home since the 2002 NLCS, also against the Cardinals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These 2012 Giants have a couple of pretty talented castoffs of their own not so different from that winning combination of 2010 \"castoffs and misfits\" as Bochy referred to his bunch — with Scutaro right there at the top of the list this time around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acquired July 27 from the division rival Colorado Rockies, Scutaro hit .500 (14 for 28) with four RBIs in the NLCS. The 36-year-old journeyman infielder, playing in his second postseason and first since 2006 with Oakland, became the first player in major league history with six multihit games in an LCS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, he's headed to his first World Series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Giants have All-Star game MVP Melky Cabrera to thank for helping his teammates secure home-field advantage in the postseason — while Cain was the winning pitcher the National League's 8-0 victory in July. Cabrera was suspended 50 games Aug. 15 for a positive testosterone test, then wasn't added to the roster by the Giants after his suspension ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After rain fell on the Cardinals during batting practice, the skies turned blue and the weather cooperated. Anxious players on both sides hung over the dugout rails as the game began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cain joined St. Louis' Chris Carpenter as the only pitchers with victories in two winner-take-all games in the same postseason. 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In their first game back at AT&T Park since Holliday took out the second baseman with a hard slide in Game 2, Holliday was scratched about an hour before first pitch because of tightness in his lower back, and Allen Craig replaced him in left field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It hardly mattered the way Vogelsong pitched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cardinals managed their only run on Craig's two-out single in the sixth. St. Louis had gone 15 innings without scoring after left-hander Barry Zito won 5-0 on Friday in Game 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vogelsong had his second stellar seven-inning outing against the Cardinals in a week, allowing four hits and one run in seven innings. He walked one in a 102-pitch performance and lowered his postseason ERA — all this year — to 1.42.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After taking a 3-1 lead back home at Busch Stadium, Mike Matheny's Cardinals will have to find some offense in a hurry if they want to get back to the World Series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These Cards might just prefer close calls. Just like last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They won the NL's second wild card on the second-to-last day of the regular season, then won at Atlanta to reach the division series. The Cardinals rallied from a 6-0 deficit with a four-run ninth inning to stun the Washington Nationals 9-7 in Game 5 of the division series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Giants got to St. Louis ace Chris Carpenter again. The Cardinals winningest postseason pitcher with 10 victories looked out of sync for the second straight start — and he left with a nearly identical line as in his 7-1 Game 2 loss here last Monday, down to the hits, earned runs, unearned runs and innings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carpenter was done in by one big inning this time, too. He allowed six hits and five runs, two earned, in four innings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vogelsong reached on shortstop Pete Kozma's fielding error in the second, scoring Brandon Belt after he led off the inning with a triple. Scutaro came up two batters later and doubled home two more runs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 10 unearned runs allowed by the Cardinals are the most in an NLCS, according to STATS, LLC — topping the nine given up by the Braves in 2001 and Dodgers in 1985.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco never faced an elimination game in 2010 on the way to winning the World Series, but has had to go the distance in each of its first two postseason series this year. 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The most unearned runs allowed in any LCS is 13, by the Angels in 1986 against the Red Sox. ... Scutaro is batting .458 (11 for 24) during the NLCS.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Josh Dubow, AP Sports Writer\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco Giants are showing how little home-field advantage matters in the baseball playoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/Giants-logo.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-78250\" title=\"Giants logo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/Giants-logo.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>Madison Bumgarner allowed two homers and got knocked out early for the second time this postseason and the Giants once again got off to a bad start to a series at home, losing Game 1 of the NL championship series 6-4 to the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We hate to lose them at home. But it happens,\" manager Bruce Bochy said. \"We've got to wash this one off and come out and be ready to go tomorrow.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Giants have lost all three home games so far this postseason, with Bumgarner taking the defeat in two of them. They managed to overcome that in the first round against Cincinnati by becoming the first team ever to win the final three games of a best-of-five series on the road.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if San Francisco is to make it back to the World Series for a second time in three years, the team must win at AT&T Park at least once this series against the wild-card Cardinals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Game 2 will be Monday night with San Francisco's Ryan Vogelsong taking on St. Louis' Chris Carpenter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Playing at home has usually been a big advantage for the Giants, who excel with the nightly sellouts and spacious dimensions that help the pitching staff. San Francisco had a 48-33 record at AT&T Park during the regular season and won five of seven postseason home games on the way to the World Series title two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hasn't been the case this October as the Giants have been outscored 20-6 in the three home games. The common theme so far has been subpar starting pitching with Bumgarner the main culprit. After going 2-0 with a 2.18 ERA as a rookie in the postseason two years ago, Bumgarner hasn't made it through five innings in either start this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have to try to find a way, which I wasn't able to do,\" Bumgarner said. \"You just have to keep battling, keep trying to find a way to get the ball where it's supposed to go.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bumgarner looked in good form at the start, needing just 11 pitches to get through a perfect first inning. But nothing was easy after that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yadier Molina lined a single on an 0-2 pitch with one out in the second. David Freese then drove a 3-2 pitch over the wall in left-center to give the Cardinals a 2-0 lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bumgarner then couldn't make it out of the fourth. Daniel Descalso doubled and scored on Pete Kozma's double. Jon Jay added a two-out RBI single and Beltran ended Bumgarner's night with the homer. That marked the first time all year that Bumgarner allowed two homers in a home game and gave him an 11.25 ERA in the postseason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I haven't had a lot of life on the ball,\" Bumgarner said. \"In cases where your stuff might not be as sharp you have to try to find a way to get it where it's supposed to go. I'm just missing over the plate a little bit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even a strong night from Tim Lincecum and the bullpen couldn't overcome Bumgarner's rough outing. Five Giants relievers combined for 5 1-3 hitless innings with Lincecum throwing two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-time NL Cy Young Award winner had been demoted to the bullpen so far in the playoffs after a rough regular season. He has allowed just one run in 8 1-3 innings so far and gives Bochy an option if he decides not to give the struggling Bumgarner another start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No Giants starter has made it through the sixth inning so far this postseason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we avoid bumps early I feel like we'll be all right,\" Lincecum said. \"It's not ideal when our starters do what they're doing right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Giants bats woke up in the fourth inning when RBI hits by Brandon Belt and Brandon Crawford and a two-run triple by Gregor Blanco cut the deficit to 6-4. The rally ended when second baseman Daniel Descalso made a diving stop of Angel Pagan's grounder up the middle with runners on first and third.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He made a great play,\" Pagan said. \"You have to give him credit. I just did my best. He threw a very nice sinker down in the zone that I put in play. I was just hoping it would go through so we could get a run at least.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they managed only two hits in 5 1-3 innings against the Cardinals bullpen and find themselves in a 1-0 series hole.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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