Giants complete World Series clean sweep

The 2012 World Series concluded with an 89-mph fastball over the middle of the plate, the sort of pitch that ends up over outfield fences as often as it does in catcher’s mitts.

Giants complete World Series clean sweep

Buster Posey squeezed it, still a little surprised it had arrived there, because that meant Miguel Cabrera, the game’s best hitter, had watched it go by, knees buckling ever so slightly, as though he wanted to genuflect to Sergio Romo, who had the stones to feed him that pitch at that moment.

It took Posey the slightest moment to compose himself. And then he ran like a madman to join in the fury that soon would engulf him.

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