Game Wrap: World Series Game 5- Giants 3 Rangers 1 The Giants Win the World Series!

Well, they did it! Timmy went out there and showed all those Cliff Lee bandwagoners who's really boss completely shutting down the Rangers vaunted offense for 6 innings, long enough for Edgar Renteria to win a World Series MVP Trophy with a game winning 3 run HR in the top of the 7'th inning. Nelson Cruz took Timmy deep in the bottom of the inning, but it was too little too late. Timmy finished the 8'th without further damage and then Brian Wilson mowed down the last 3 Rangers batters in the 9'th inning to close it out. The Giants Win the World Series!!! How sweet it is! Key lines:

Edgar Renteria- 1 for 3, HR! That's it for the offense, really. Cody Ross and Juan Uribe led off the 7'th with back-to-back singles. Huff Daddy laid down a surprise perfect sac bunt. It all looked like it was for naught when Burrell struck out yet again, but then Rent came to the plate after telling Andres Torres he was going to hit it out. He did! 3 run jack for the game winner and the World Series clincher. Renteria was worth every penny of the $18 Million the Giants paid him over the last 2 seasons and then some! World Series MVP and well deserved!

Tim Lincecum- 8 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 2 BB, 10 K's. Oh my! Facing a much better lineup, I believe Timmy was more dominant than in Game 1 of the NLDS. Halfway through the bottom of the second inning, I looked around at my family, knocked on wood and said, "Timmy is on fire tonight!" Right then, I figured that if the Giants could just get him a run or two that was all they would need. It took until the 7'th inning, but they got him 3 and that was more than enough!

Brian Wilson- 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K's, Save. Wilson just kept getting more and more dominant as the season and the playoffs went along. He might just be the most dominant closer in baseball right now. Alternate take: Does anyone else get the feeling that Brian Wilson sometimes loads the bases and goes to 3-2 counts just to keep things interesting? I mean, I think he understood that the last two games in the World Series was not the time to mess around and he just came in a blew people away at will! Either way, gotta love the guy!

Cliff Lee- 7 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 0 BB, 6 K's. What's with the Cliff Lee fixation out there anyway? I mean, I just scanned through the fangraphs.com game chat and Dave Cameron, who has to be the most condescending guy who doesn't know a darn thing about baseball I've ever read, was going on and on about how great Lee's stuff was. Said the Rangers had a 60-40 chance of winning tonight. Someone asked him if the ratio would be reversed if the starting pitchers were reversed. His reply? Yes! or maybe 50-50. I mean, here's a website and a guy who claim pride in ignoring small sample sizes, yet they are gaga over a guy who pitched great in a couple of playoff games yet dis a two time Cy Young Award winner and a 3 time NL Strikeout leader! Just unbelieveable! 2 innings into this game I was about 90% sure Lee was the guy who was going to crack first, and he sure was!

What can I say? With the Win, the 2010 San Francisco Giants win the World Series for the first time since moving to San Francisco in 1958. It's the first Championship for the franchise in my lifetime and the first in my 45 years of being a Giants fan. Lefty Malo has an interesting post about what it will be like to be a Giants fan now that they have won it. I'll worry about that another day! Today, I'm a happy man! No game tomorrow!

I started this blog last offseason, at least in part because I believed this team was headed in the right direction, and had a chance to be very good as soon as this year. I finally got sick of being ridiculed on other Giants fansites for saying just that. I like to think that maybe my blog was a good luck charm for this team. Hey, it's as good an explanation as any, right? I just know that I've been a passionate fan for 45 years and have stuck with this team through thick and thin. I haven't always defended management. I even called for Brian Sabean to be fired after he deliberately punted a draft pick to sign Michael Tucker, which went 180 degrees against everything I believe about how a team should be built. This year, I knew they were headed in the right direction and knew they had a chance to be very good. It's been an unbelieveable experience chronicling my thoughts on Giants baseball through this amazing, wonderful season.

I'm going to take a day or two to digest the whole experience and then decide where to go from here. Barring some unforseen catastrophe, I believe the Giants are poised for their greatest era with a great core of young players and a strong scouting department and farm system. They won't win it every year, but they will be in contention for a long time. As we all know, you can't win the World Series without getting there first!

Thanks to everybody who faithfully followed along all season. Stay tuned for word on the future of the blog. I promise I won't keep you waiting long, but I need a couple of days to let it all sink in. Thanks again everybody!