DETROIT — With bristly winds swirling and a World Series championship on the line, the San Francisco Giants defeated the Detroit Tigers, 4-3, in 10 innings on Monday night in Game 4 to claim their second title in three years.
The game, played before an announced crowd of 42,152 at Comerica Park, provided a dose of intensity and intrigue to a series that proved something of an anticlimax to an otherwise stunning postseason run for the Giants. During their two previous series, San Francisco had to overcome huge deficits and unlikely odds to keep their season alive. In the World Series, they were cutthroat and businesslike, finishing off the Tigers in the minimum four games, the first World Series sweep since the Boston Red Sox defeated the St. Louis Cardinals in 2007.
And now, this storied franchise, born in New York, packed and moved to California in 1958, has its seventh World Series title, and second since they upended the Texas Rangers in five games in 2010.
It was a cagey final confrontation, the runs appearing in sporadic bursts, all momentum undercut with swift counterpunching. The Giants jumped ahead in the second inning, but were leapfrogged by the Tigers in the third. The Giants barreled in front again during the sixth, but the Tigers tied them up in the bottom of the frame.
The starting pitchers, the Giants' Matt Cain and the Tigers' Max Scherzer, battled a chilly, windy night and stood their ground, firing with what seemed to be less than their best. They left the game at an impasse, but after the mound was bequeathed to the bullpens, the relief pitchers refused to bend either, sending the game into extra innings.
Ryan Theriot singled off Phil Coke to start the 10th inning, and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt. One out later, Marco Scutaro, who had cooled this series after lighting up the N.L. Championship Series, punched a single into center field. The crowd gasped.
Theriot raced around third and raised his arm in triumph as he slid safely across home plate. In the dugout, his teammates pummeled his helmet with their fists. The title felt within their grasp.
In the bottom of the inning, Sergio Romo, the Giants' bearded and oft-animated closer, struck out the side, setting down triple crown winner Miguel Cabrera to seal a lasting image of the powerful Tigers' sudden futility at the plate. Cabrera, a favorite for the American League Most Valuable Player award, struck out looking at an 89-mile-per-hour fastball, right down the middle of the plate.
Romo clenched his fists and pumped them in front of his chest. Soon, his teammates engulfed him.
For this must-win game, the Tigers handed the ball to Scherzer, who lasted six and a third innings, allowing three runs, seven hits, and one walk, while recording eight strikeouts. The Giants' runs were built off two previously dormant bats.
In the second inning, Brandon Belt, who was hitless during the first three games of the series, swiveled on an inside fastball and missed a home run by mere feet when the ball banged off the upper portion of the wall in right field. Belt scampered around the bases, settling for a triple, while Hunter Pence, who preceded him with a ground-rule double, scored easily.
In the sixth inning, Buster Posey, who entered Game 4 batting .196 during the postseason with two extra-base hits, walloped a 82-m.p.h. changeup from Scherzer, sending the ball hooking inside the left-field foul pole for a two-run homer.
The action injected life into the frigid environs. Players and fans alike donned layers to battle the wind and bluster. The announcement over the public address system of the game time temperature, 44 degrees, incited a lusty cheer from the crowd. Shortly thereafter, a light, steady rain fluttered diagonally from left field, dampening but not dispiriting the crowd.
These conditions seemed to help the Tigers in the third. Cabrera came up with one on and two outs, and lofted a low changeup from Cain into the air to right field. He seemed not to have squared it up perfectly, but the ball carried and carried before plopping into the second row of seats beyond the right-field wall. The Tigers went up, 2-1, as their fans, wrapped in scarves and hooded sweatshirts, bounced in their seats.
It was the first Tigers hit with a runner in scoring position since Game 1. It was the first time the Giants trailed a game since Game 4 of the championship series, and it broke a 20-inning scoreless streak by their pitchers.
After Posey's home run in the sixth, Delmon Young retaliated for the Tigers in the bottom of the inning, lashing a hanging slider from Cain into the opposite-field seats for a line-drive, solo home run.
Cain, as he did throughout the playoff run, soldiered through while appearing to lack his best stuff. He fired 102 pitches over seven strenuous innings, giving up three runs, five hits, and two walks while striking out five.
He left the mound with the game, the season, still hanging in the balance. But his teammates did the rest.
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