Giants Champs Again! - Thome's 2 HR's Sink M's

The San Francisco Giants are MBL Champions. With a flair for the dramatic, much like their owner and manager, the G-Men spotted the M's a 4-1 lead before storming back on Jim Thome's (MVP)
2nd HR of the game to give the Giants an 11-6 vitory and the MBL Championship.

The favored Bay Area Boys spent most of the series chasing the young M's and their terrific pitching staff. "They're special," said a champagne soaked SF manager Peter Spellos about the M's staff, "but our boys, now these are HOF'ers. And remember age and trechery will always overcome youth and skill!" Well, that and 3 run HR's of course.

Game Seven started much the way Game Six did, with the M's jumping out on top, this time 2-0 on Raphael Furcal's 2 run dinger. They had pushed it up to 4-1 by the 4th when Thome started a string of 3AB's driving in 5 runs. His solo blast, 3rd HR of the series cut the lead to 4-2, where it remained until the home 6th. With one out, regular season MVP Mark Loretta walked, followed by Miguel "screw the O's" Tejeda's single. Up walked Thome, and just like he did in Game 7 vs ARI (walk-off 10th inn GW HR) Thome came center stage and delivered. One pitch turned into 3 runs and the G-Men had a 5-4 lead and ALL the momentum.

Thome had quite the last two games in SF to win series MVP. He went 5 for 7 with 7 RBI's, 2 BB and 3 HR. Combine that with another "SF Geriatric" Curt Schilling's game 6 performance, and you can see why these dinosaurs aren't extinct yet. Fiscal realities will set in during the off season, so both these future SF HOF'ers may be doing more fishing than playing ball in 2006.

Once SF had the lead, they delived the KO punch in the next (7th) inning. The one that sent M's owner Trade Jack leaping out the luxury box was Ricky Bottalico's check swing, seeing-eye single that made it 7-4 and opened the floodgates for a 6-run home 7th. The Young Mariners could never recover after that. The #1 hitting team Giants, who had scored only 9 runs in the first 5 games of the MBLWS, scored 19 in the last 2 at home to punctuate another terrific season, and bring home their 2nd MBL title in the last 3 years.

SF has averaged 103 wins over the last 4 years, and though age is catching up with many of them, Noah Lowry and Matt Cain are poised to lead the charge and bring the G-Men back to the series in 2006.

Back to back? "That's pretty damn tough to do," a cigar smoking Spellos crooned between
kisses from SF fans Jennifer Aniston and Gina Gershon. "But with our guys....anything can happen. And unlike our state Govenor....we'll be back!!!"

Oh, and somewhere, Quentin McQ and Jeremi G are having a beer, and smiling.....