Never underestimate momentum. Just ask the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team on their way home from San Francisco. The Giants, behind the heavy hitting from all stars such as Pablo Sandoval, got on a roll during the playoffs with the Cards and kept up the momentum when the Detroit Tigers came to town for the opening games of the 2012 World Series. Detroit was the unanimous favorite to win the series according to Las Vegas handicappers. Riding into San Francisco on the strength of players like Miguel Cabrera who made baseball history by winning the triple crown near the end of the regular season and a stunning four game sweep of the New York Yankees in the American League playoffs. But when the Tigers got to San Francisco they found something completely unexpected in the husky form of Kung Fu Panda, aka Pablo Sandoval, who banged All Star ace pitcher Justin Verlander back to the dugout with 2 strong home runs and then slammed one more off of Alburquerque totaling three homers in one World Series game and making World Series history as only the fourth player ever to do so.
San Francisco took the first game by a score of 8-3 on eleven hits and then came back the next evening to win game 2 by 2-0 on the strength of world class pitching by Madison Bumgarner. The game went scoreless until the bottom of the seventh when the Giants got one run and then one more in the bottom of the eighth.
The Series then moved to Detroit on Saturday October 27 where baseball fans were treated to a defensive battle with the only runs scored in the second inning by the Giants and they managed to hold on for a 2-0 victory behind the stingy pitching of Ryan Vogelsong, Tim Lincecum and finally Sergio Romo who finished up the shut out.
Sunday evening saw the two World Series contenders back in action in Detroit with max Scerzer on the mound for the Tigers and Matt Cain starting off for San Francisco… The action picked up in the second inning when Bell tripled to deep right scoring Pence. Miggy Cabrera hit a 2 run shot to right in the third only to be answered by a 2 run shot to left by baby faced catcher Buster Posey scoring Scutaro. Then, in the top of the tenth inning, Scutaro singled to center scoring Teriot which proved to be the run that won the 2012 World Series.
