About The Bay: Giants Fans Trek To Detroit, Some From Across The Globe
While a majority of San Francisco Giants fans had to stay in the Bay Area to watch and cheer their team, many made the trek to Detroit to see their team win the World Series.
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While a majority of San Francisco Giants fans had to stay in the Bay Area to watch and cheer their team, many made the trek to Detroit to see their team win the World Series.
Jeremy Affeldt was first. Then Santiago Casilla came on and got the ball to Sergio Romo, who closed it out for San Francisco.
What a thrill for Giants fans: the team clinched its second World Series win in three years, after winning Game 4 in Detroit with a 4-3 victory. It's the team's second World Series win in three years, and especially thrilling this time around considering the Giants swept the Tigers this time around.
Full disclosure: I am a Giants fan. It's a lifetime deal; I have as much Johnnie LeMaster and Frank Linzy in my DNA as I do Pablo Sandoval and Sergio Romo. I have the ticket stubs, season-ticket invoices, blankets and Croix de Candlestick to prove my oft-misplaced loyalty.
When the odds seemed against the San Francisco Giants favor throughout the postseason, the team battled and won the World Series for each other.
Police in riot gear attempted to disperse crowds of people in the Mission District where several large piles of burning debris were dotting Mission and Valencia streets hours after the San Francisco Giants' World Series victory against the Detroit Tigers Sunday night.
Pablo Sandoval not only has baseball's neatest nickname, Kung Fu Panda has a World Series MVP award to go along with it.
San Francisco will hold a ticker tape parade and civic celebration in honor of the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday, Mayor Ed Lee announced Sunday night.
Nearly knocked out in the playoffs time and time again, and finally pressed by the Detroit Tigers in Game 4, Pablo Sandoval and the San Francisco Giants clinched their second title in three seasons Sunday night.
The up to 10,000 fans assembled to watch the game on a Jumbroton a park across from City Hall grew in numbers and volume throughout the chilly and foggy night, exploding in unison with a roar with the final out.
As the Giants put the pedal to the metal and try and close out this World Series in Detroit, their manager has a pretty good personal World Series history here in Detroit.
While the average fan won't notice his impact, true Giants fans have realized how vital Gregor Blanco has been to his team's success.
The Detroit Tigers scratched catcher Alex Avila from their starting lineup for Game 4 of the World Series on Sunday and replaced him with Gerald Laird.
A string of outstanding pitching performances has pushed the San Francisco Giants to the brink of their second World Series title in three years.
You know how many teams in the last 46 years have thrown two shutouts in a single World Series? Two. The 2010 Giants, and now the 2012 Giants.
