5:14 am Mon October 29, 2012  Giants Sweep Tigers For World
Series Title  Originally published on Mon October 29, 2012 6:51
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NPR's Don Gonyea, one of the nation's more prominent Tigers
fans. The San Francisco Giants are the World Series champions,
completing a four-game sweep last night and beating the Detroit
Tigers 4-3 in 10 innings. Few people expected a sweep, but then
again the Giants were a surprise team this baseball season.
NPR's Mike Pesca reports that the San Francisco's pitching and
defense dominated this series.  MIKE PESCA, BYLINE: Baseball,
it's a strange game. It's a quirky game.  JIM LEYLAND: It's a
freaky game. And it happened and so be it.  PESCA: Jim Leyland's
right, downright freaky. The Tigers manager was asked, as
managers are, to explain the normally powerful Tigers' lack of
offense this series. He said the other guys pitched well and we
could've done better. The most offensively underperforming Tiger
was Prince Fielder, who k