GIANTS WIN WORLD SERIES

When Madison Bumgarner entered the game with a 3-2 lead, you might as well have turned off the TV and went to bed. “I wasn’t thinking about innings or pitch count. I was just thinking about getting outs, getting outs, until I couldn’t get them anymore and we needed someone else,” Bumgarner said. With a man on third for the Royals in the bottom of the 9th, Kansas City couldn’t get the runner across, and the Giants won the World Series for the third time in five years. Dynasty Anyone?  “When it got by him, I had a smile on my face. I thought maybe I could score, but he got to it quickly enough,” Gordon said of his last gasp hit. “I just put my head down and ran, almost fell around second base, was just waiting for (third-base coach Mike Jirschele) to give me the signal. It was a good hold. He had the ball in plenty of time.”From there, the Giants hoped for the best. “We just need one more out. We got this. Let’s do it,” Blanco he said he thought to himself.

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