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As the post-season has progressed, and the Giants' gritty collective of homegrown youngsters and veteran rejects have scratched out improbable victory after improbable victory, cheap kobe jerseys there has been a growing sense around San Francisco that greater forces are at work here; that it is somehow pre-ordained the Giants will win the World Series for the first time since moving west from New York more than 50 years ago. One local radio host, Paul McCaffrey of KNBR, has been invoking the power of the "particles" and, this being the cradle of hippy civilisation, he has not been laughed out of town. The opposite, in fact. He's been talking about printing T-shirts.

But if it is comforting for Giants fans to think they have the "particles" on their side, how much better must it now feel to have the numbers working for them too: 62% of Game One winners have gone on to win the World Series, including six of the past seven.

So the Giants it is, then. It's over. Except it isn't. It never is in baseball, cheap laker jerseys a sport in which the numbers are never wrong until they are. Last night's run-fest was ample proof of that, as has been the progress of the Giants and the Rangers, two teams that are where they are because of their infinite appetite for defying the numbers, the experts and anyone else who dares to doubt their capabilities.

There are six games still to play, beginning with tonight's Game Two in which the Giants will send another of their young pitching stars, Matt Cain, to the mound, and the Rangers will place their faith in the left-hander CJ Wilson. cheap lightning jerseys The edge must go to Cain, who last week pitched an eight-inning masterpiece in Game Three of the National League Championship Series as the Giants defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 3-0. Then again, the unbeatable Lee was supposed to have the edge last night and look what happened to him.

Texas' manager, Ron Washington, cheap lions jerseys will be hoping that Cain will go the way of Lee, that he will not be able to pitch as well as he did against the Phillies. He will be hoping, too, that his best player, Josh Hamilton, who did not manage a hit last night, starts making decent contact with ball and the talismanic Vladimir Guerrero, responsible for two of the Rangers' four errors, does not have another nightmare in right field.

San Francisco's manager, cheap lsu jerseys Bruce Bochy, will be hoping for more of what his team have given him throughout the post-season; clutch hitting, sound fielding and starting pitching good enough to give his fearsome bull-pen, led by the closer Brian Wilson, a chance to bring home the victory. If that happens, it may be a case of Texas beware. To lose the first game of the World Series is a setback that can be overcome. To lose the first two games is far more serious than that.

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