The San Francisco Giants registered a comprehensive victory over the Detroit Tigers 2-0 and are now leading 3-0 in the World Series.
The Giants are just one win away from creating history for the second time in three seasons.
No team in the league it seems is capable of stopping the Giants juggernaut. Even Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera looked helpless as the Giants inflicted another defeated on his team on Saturday.
Giants manager Bruce Bochy said: "I'll say this: The club is playing well.''
The Giants, it seems, start every game with more aggression and better strategy and keep the opponents guessing all the time. The Tigers had no clue when facing pitchers like Ryan Vogelsong and Tim Lincecum. They looked completely stifled as the Giants did not let them score even a single run.
Gregor Blanco contributed for the Giants by hitting an RBI triple. They timed their shots well. It was a combined team effort and their defense too was sharp and effective.
Game 4 will be played on Sunday. Giants' Matt Cain will start against Tigers' Max Scherzer.
Even though they have a substantial 3-0 lead, the Giants are by no means complacent about it.
Sergio Romo, the Giants' pitcher said: "We're up 3-0; they've got to beat us four times in a row. So do I like our chances, of course. But anything's possible, so we're definitely not going to sleep on them."
As for the Tigers, it is clearly an uphill task now. They will have to win 4 games in a row to claim the World Series; however, as has been witnessed frequently this season, teams with huge deficits have done well to bounce back. The Giants were trailing 0-2 to the Reds and won the last three games in the best-of-five Division series. They also beat the Cardinals 4-3 despite trailing 1-3 in the best-of-seven NLCS.
The Giants, for sure, know that winning four games in a row although difficult is not impossible and would do their best on Sunday to beat the Tigers.
Tigers DH Delmon Young said: "We'd love to be swinging the bats great but all postseason we haven't really swung the bats. We hit at the right time against Oakland, and New York looked like us right now. When you're not putting up any runs, it's a little bit easier to win if you score one."
Jim Leyland, the Tigers manager said that failure could not be attributed to any one in particular and stated that it was a collective failure. "Obviously a lot of people struggle when you only get five hits and you don't score any runs," he said. "We don't point fingers at anybody in particular; we say as a team tonight we didn't get it done."
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