Filed under: Giants, Rangers, MLB Playoffs, World Series
If you had picked the San Francisco Giants and Texas Rangers to go to the World Series on Opening Day, people would've told you that you were crazy. Even when the playoffs began some two and a half weeks ago, a Rangers-Giants World Series seemed like a huge longshot. Heck, when the League Championship Series began and the Rangers lined up against the defending champion Yankees while the Phillies and their burgeoning National League dynasty loomed over the Giants, picking a Giants-Rangers Fall Classic would've seemed like a serious folly. And yet here we are. Both teams were stretched in the Division Series -- Tampa Bay took Texas to five games, Atlanta played San Francisco as close as possible in a four-game set. Pitching carried the day for both clubs in the first round. The Braves had no answer for Tim Lincecum or Jonathan Sanchez and Cliff Lee made two dominant starts against Rays ace David Price to carry the Rangers to their first ever win in a postseason series.
From there, neither team missed a beat. The Rangers pummeled the Yankees' suspect pitching staff and Colby Lewis and Lee combined to shut down the Yankees' big bats three times in six games. The Giants got a surprising jumpstart from Cody Ross's two home runs against Roy Halladay in Game 1 and a thrilling, last at-bat win in Game 4 to build a 3-1 series lead. With a pitching staff that was arguably the National League's best in the regular season, that was simply too much for even the mighty Phillies to overcome.
Source: http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2010/10/24/2010-world-series-giants-vs-rangers/
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