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Miami Herald
| 8 months ago
Zack Greinke is expected to take his free-agent negotiations possibly into December, but the fate of two other starting pitchers and right fielder Torii Hunter as it pertains to the Los Angeles Angels could be settled this week. Pablo Sandoval was...
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The Reporter
| 8 months ago
The San Francisco Giants had just clinched the World Series title, beating the Detroit Tigers 4-3 to complete a sweep. After winning the first two games in San Francisco, the Giants took Games 3 and 4 Saturday and Sunday in Detroit. The fans who...
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Sacramento Bee
| 8 months ago
The world champion Giants returned home Monday afternoon to a celebration of firehoses blasting fountains of water over their chartered plane and fans cheering behind cyclone fences. "We're proud of what they've done," said Paul Fung, a Virgin...
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Sacramento Bee
| 8 months ago
Matt Cain stood in a hallway outside the Giants' champagne-soaked clubhouse just after midnight Monday morning, a pair of goggles on his head. They were a gift from his mother, he said, and contained a small camera so the Giants right-hander could...
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Sacramento Bee
| 8 months ago
Seems the football Giants holding off the Dallas Cowboys is a bigger deal than San Francisco winning another baseball championship. The San Francisco Giants are getting little credit for sweeping the Tigers in four games. Detroit is being blamed for...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
A sports franchise, like the players it employs, can hit its stride. The New York Yankees hit theirs at the end of the 1990s and won three consecutive World Series...Even the Buffalo Bills hit a stride during their 0-for run through the Super Bowl.
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
The modern sports world is too easily punctuated by exclamation points...In baseball, never is this more apparent than at the July trade deadline. Fans and columnists scream that a team must do something big they must!...The Dodgers spent those final...
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FanIQ
| 8 months ago
For the second time in three years, the San Francisco Giants have taken the baseball world by surprise. Not one media outlet pegged the Giants as a potential squad to win it all, nor did anyone really give them a chance when they fell down early in...
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The Boston Globe
| 8 months ago
Invalid email address Add a personal message: Your e-mail: Invalid email address Sending your article Your article has been sent. Marco Scutaro was with the Red Sox when they collapsed at the end of last season, calling that terrible September one of...
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Seattle Times
| 8 months ago
But for me, there was something very interesting to take away from the two teams that made the World Series this year. And it will have pertinence for Mariners fans as we look ahead to a winter full of debate over the types of players the team should...
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NY Daily News
| 8 months ago
Phillip/AP Giants catcher Buster Posey has had a comparable first few years in the majors to Yankee captain Derek Jeter. A Rookie of the Year award, an All-Star selection, a top-3 MVP finish and two World Series titles in the first three full seasons...
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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
TicketNetwork is a resale marketplace and is not a box office or venue. About the Bats Blog Tyler Kepner, David Waldstein, Andrew Keh and other contributors will bring baseball fans inside the 2012 baseball season with news and analysis of the...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 8 months ago
San Francisco Giants general manager Brian Sabean carries the World Series Trophy on the field after his team defeated the Detroit Tigers in Game 4 to win the MLB World Series baseball championship The Giants ruled Major League Baseball after...
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Chicago Tribune
| 8 months ago
Sabean remained the Giants' general manager, reaching one World Series with Barry Bonds and riding out the rough end to Bonds' career, and never stopped valuing pitching. If anything, after that 1997 trade with the White Sox he became more convinced...
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Contra Costa Times
| 8 months ago
Bruce Bochy sat in his office before Game 4 of the World Series and smiled as he slowly turned his hat backward. He looked relaxed and confident, but he admitted he hadn't slept well the night before, or for much of the previous month. "I'm always...
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Arab News
| 8 months ago
Marco Scutaro had dreamed of winning the World Series since he was an 18-year-old Venezuelan teenager who came to the United States to play minor-league baseball. Two days before his 37th birthday, Scutaro made his dreams come true by hitting a...
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International Herald Tribune
| 8 months ago
Yankees This is not how baseball works, especially now, with 10 teams in the playoff field. At 25 years old, Posey, the San Francisco Giants ' catcher, has won as many championships as Christy Mathewson, Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Juan Marichal and...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
The Giants ' championship formula is a familiar one, just with new faces all over the diamond two years later: stellar starting pitching backed by a shut-down bullpen, a late-season surge and a manager making all the right moves. San Francisco...
