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• Will Clark, Matt Williams Reflect on 1989 Quake
  From the Web › NBC
  Decades later, San Francisco Giants players and coaches still have vivid and indellible memories of the 6.9-magnitude Oct. 17, 1989 quake that rocked the Bay Area.In...
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• World Series: Meet the Kansas City Royals
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  The San Francisco Giants' World Series opponent is possibly the most anonymous of the American League playoff teams
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• How hawk feathers (might have) helped the Giants reach a third World Series (Yahoo Sports)
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  Giants coach Tim Flannery found a talisman for the team in the hills behind Dodger Stadium. Or so goes the legend.
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• Morse to serve as Giants' DH in Kansas City
  From the Web › MLB.com
  After playing a critical role as a pinch-hitter in the National League Championship Series, Michael Morse's job description is about to expand. Morse will serve as the...
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• Posey faces tough task behind the plate against speedy Royals
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Buster Posey casts an assertive presence as a hitter, but he could loom even larger in the World Series against the Kansas City Royals when he settles into his catcher's...
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• Tale of the tape: Giants-Royals, Game 1
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Here's a breakdown of the pitchers for Game 1 of the World Series: the the Giants' Madison Bumgarner and the Royals' James Shields.
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• Crucial Giants-Royals World Series matchups
  From the Web › MLB.com
  The fruitlessness of speculation at this stage is well-established by these Royals and Giants. Not only have they beaten the odds by becoming the first two Wild Card...
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• MadBum brings unique delivery, experience for Giants in Game 1
  From the Web › MLB.com
  When Madison Bumgarner starts Game 1 of the World Series on Tuesday (4:30 p.m. PT on FOX, 5:07 p.m. PT first pitch), he will showcase one of the game's most...
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• Lincecum more than ready if needed in Fall Classic
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Giants right-hander Tim Lincecum has gone from the sublime to the anonymous in his baseball career. Thus far, Lincecum has not pitched during the 2014 playoffs, but he...
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• Seeking another title, Giants open Fall Classic in KC
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Six days after celebrating an American League pennant in front of their own fans by dispatching the Orioles, the Royals will host the Giants in the first World Series...
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• Giants can punch Bochy's Hall of Fame ticket
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Nine managers have won at least three World Series championships, and all of them are in the Hall of Fame. So if the Giants can get past these Cinderellas wearing Kansas...
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• At top of the order, Blanco realizes World Series dream
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Barring unforeseen circumstances, Gregor Blanco of the Giants will realize his fondest baseball dream Tuesday night: Leading off and playing center field in the World...
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• Giants' World Series message: 'Respect but don't fear' Royals
  From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
  This World Series is setting up as Giants' experience vs. Royals' momentum. But how much is that momentum worth, really?
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• World Series: Michael Morse to be used as Giants' designated hitter
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  San Francisco Giants will use Michael Morse as designated hitter for Game 1 of the World Series at Kauffman Stadium on Tuesday against the Kansas City Royals, manager...
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• World Series: Why Giants are here again
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  The San Francisco Giants are in the World Series because they have Madison Bumgarner, Busty Posey, Bruce Bochy -- and an often overlooked ingredient.
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• World Series: San Francisco Giants-Kansas City Royals matchups
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  San Francisco Giants have edges in Buster Posey and in the rotation, but will that be enough for them to beat the American League champion Kansas City Royals in the...
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• Kawakami: With Bumgarner, Giants will win World Series
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  Madison Bumgarner, like Tim Lincecum in 2010 and Matt Cain in 2012, will lead the San Francisco Giants with manager Bruce Bochy to the World Series title
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• World Series: How the Giants and Royals match up
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  A position-by-position look at the San Francisco Giants and Kansas City Royals going into the World Series, starting Tuesday night at Kauffman Stadium:
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• Coaching continuity a source of Giant strength
  From the Web › MLB.com
  When a Giants coach speaks, players listen, because those coaches have pull with manager Bruce Bochy, and chances are they will be around for many years.
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• World Series: Can Giants contend with Royals' speed?
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  Kansas City Royals are fastest team that Giants have faced; American League champs can outrun San Francisco and have maybe more range on defense than the National League...
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• World Series: Giants' Ishikawa dealing with newfound celebrity status
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  San Francisco Giants outfielder Travis Ishikawa made news around the world with his walk-off homer in Game 5 of the NLCS against the St. Louis Cardinals, including...
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• Giants-Royals: A capsule look at World Series
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  A look at the best-of-seven World Series between the San Francisco Giants and Kansas City Royals:
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• Giants-Royals Preview
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Alex Gordon took a big rip at a batting-practice fastball, fouled it off badly into the cage, and ducked when the carom nearly hit him in the...
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• Giants lefty ace Bumgarner set for Royal test (AFP)
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  Kansas City (AFP) - San Francisco Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner, baffling rival batters throughout a record-shattering season, tries to halt Kansas City's unbeaten...
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• Waiting game over for Cinderella Royals
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  By Larry Fine - The waiting game will soon be over for the Kansas City Royals, who last played for the World Series crown 29 years ago and who host the San Francisco...
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• James Shields passed a kidney stone during the ALCS
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  KANSAS CITY — The Kansas City Royals considered bringing back right-hander James Shields for Game 4 of the American League Championship Series this past Wednesday...
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• Bumgarner against Shields in World Series opener
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A six-pack won't be enough for Madison Bumgarner if the San Francisco Giants win the World Series.
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• First four World Series games dedicated to important causes
  From the Web › MLB.com
  The annual World Series Community Initiative program is an established tradition that gives two clubs and their fan bases even greater rewards for reaching the ultimate...
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• In an era of parity, Giants closing in on dynasty status
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Is it possible to have a dynasty only in even-numbered years? In an era of baseball parity, the answer is yes. This is the most anyone could reasonably expect out of one...
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• MLB announces World Series umpiring crew
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Jeff Kellogg will serve as the crew chief for the 2014 World Series, Major League Baseball announced on Monday. Kellogg is one of three regular season crew chiefs who...
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• Prior World Series experience doesn't matter after Game 1
  From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
  World Series experience is a storyline before any games are played; once one is, it really does revert to who has better players making better plays under better...
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• Giants notes: Bochy sets DH, Lincecum ready to relieve, etc.
  From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
  Michael Morse has just four at-bats this postseason, but on the strength of a pivotal home run in Game 5 of the NLCS, his role is growing.
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• Kansas City radio station will play 'Royals' by Lorde more frequently now that it's banned in S.F.
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  The Stew told you Saturday about a couple San Francisco radio stations that decided to stop playing "Royals," the ubiquitous hit song by Lorde, until the World Series...
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• Scouts' honor: Homegrown talent key to Giants' success
  From the Web › MLB.com
  A look at the principals in the Giants' victory that sealed their National League Championship Series triumph demonstrates how the franchise's farm system has become its...
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• Giants' pinch-hitting options limited in Kansas City
  From the Web › MLB.com
  With the use of the designated hitter in the American League city, the Giants are going to have a shortened bench for Games 1 and 2 of the World Series on Tuesday and...
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• Affeldt stays course to aid Giants' World Series run
  From the Web › MLB.com
  If not for the words of two people -- Jeremy Affeldt's wife, Larisa, and Royals general manager Dayton Moore -- he might have called it quits in 2006. If Affeldt gets...
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• Lorde's 'Royals' Banned From San Francisco Radio Until World Series
  From the Web › AOL On
  The Fumble - Find out why San Francisco radio stations have banned "Royals" by Lorde.
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• World Series prop bets: More than six steals for Royals?
  From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
  The 2014 World Series starts on Tuesday, and Las Vegas betting website Bovada.lv is offering a host of intriguing prop bets for the series.
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• Bochy names his World Series DH, plus other SF Giants notes
  From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
  Michael Morse hung out for almost eight innings before he tied Game 5 of the National League Championship Series with a homer against the Cardinals' Pet Neshek. Getting...
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• Rest or rust? Royals, Giants set for World Series
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Buster Posey and the San Francisco Giants zipped through the playoffs, Lorenzo Cain and the Kansas City Royals zoomed along.
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• San Francisco stations banish 'Royals' song ahead of World Series
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  - At least two Northern California radio stations have pledged not to play New Zealand artist Lorde's song "Royals," in solidarity with the San Francisco Giants during...
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• A completely unscientific breakdown of World Series
  From the Web › USA Today
  Will the Giants be able to contain the Royals' fast-paced offense?       
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• Giants will use Michael Morse at DH, keep Travis Ishikawa in left field
  From the Web › HardballTalk
  Morse has yet to start a game in the playoffs, but he hit .279 with 16 homers and an .811 OPS in 131 games during the regular season to rank second on the team in OPS...
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• Early Series workout-day notes: Royals will run on SF Giants
  From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
  I went down there to talk about running, because the Royals like to do that, and it could be a huge factor in the World Series. "We all can steal bases," pinch-runner...
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• Brian Sabean's formula for the Giants: Tough, gritty, determined
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  San Francisco Giants' general manager Brian Sabean wants players with good character, but he also wants tough guys with the passion of Little Leaguers
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• Front offices of Giants and Royals took vastly different paths to World Series (NBC on Yahoo Sports)
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  Jenna Corrado is joined by HardballTalk's Craig Calcaterra to discuss how the Giants and Royals have built their respective teams into World Series caliber franchises...
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• New WS gear player tested, fan approved
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Gear up in style with the exclusive official sweatshirts and T-shirts that the Giants will be wearing to work out during the World Series.
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• 'Royals' hush: S.F. radio stations ban hit song
  From the Web › ESPN
  The popular song "Royals" by New Zealand artist Lorde is getting caught up in the fervor over the upcoming World Series between the San Francisco Giants and Kansas City...
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• HBT Daily: How the Royals and Giants were built
  From the Web › HardballTalk
  This former Royals is a big part of why the current Royals are where they are.
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• Some San Francisco stations ban Lorde song Royals
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  Some San Francisco radio stations are banning the hit Lorde song Royals from their airwaves until after the San Francisco Giants take on the Kansas City Royals in the...
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• San Francisco radio stations ban hit song 'Royals'
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  SAN FRANCISCO -- The popular song ''Royals'' by New Zealand artist Lorde is getting caught up in the fervor over the upcoming World Series between the San Francisco...
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• Wild World Series: Perfect Royals, Tested Giants
  From the Web › AOL On
  Associated Press - With the World Series set between the playoff-perfect Kansas City Royals and the tried-and-tested San Francisco Giants, there's a fair amount of...
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• Local news digging deep into the Giants-Royals matchup
  From the Web › HardballTalk
  Four full days off before the World Series has all of us hurting for content, frankly.
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• Giants rely on core of 4 relievers
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  SAN FRANCISCO -- The San Francisco Giants have their own version of the Core Four that has fueled their recent October dominance.
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• Official World Series gear unveiled, available
  From the Web › MLB.com
  The Giants will meet the Royals in the World Series starting Tuesday night at Kauffman Stadium, and that thrilling experience of the Fall Classic is already underway...
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• October Giants: KC to see foe of a different color
  From the Web › MLB.com
  While the soaring confidence of the K.C. faithful in these dashing young Royals is fully justified, they haven't seen anything yet quite like this troupe from San...
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• Casilla's cool demeanor belies competitive fire within
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Santiago Casilla keeps his emotions mainly to himself, unlike a large percentage of his counterparts, who favor gesticulations, primal screams or both when they're on...
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• Pitch from Zito helped sell Hudson on Giants
  From the Web › MLB.com
  The merits of Barry Zito's seven-year tenure with the Giants have been debated ad nauseam, but he deserves an assist for the contributions the team has received from Tim...
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• Giants know it won't be easy to slow running Royals
  From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
  The Royals used their speed to blaze through the AL playoffs, and the Giants know they will have their hands full in the World Series.
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• Pablo Sandoval heats up when the pressure's on
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  San Francisco Giants' third baseman Pablo Sandoval has a .325 career average in the postseason, and the Panda says not even his impending free agency can distract him in...
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• Giants' Bochy aims to join elite company
  From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
  As manager Bruce Bochy guides the Giants into the World Series for the third time in five years, he could soon join some elite company.
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• World Series: Jeremy Affeldt goes home
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  Once an up-and-comer with the Kansas City Royals, Jeremy Affeldt heads to the 2014 World Series as a vital cog in the San Francisco Giants bullpen.
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• Denkinger's miss revisited as Series returns to KC
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Of course Don Denkinger plans to watch the World Series. He always does. He'll tune in to root for the umpires, check out familiar faces on the...
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• Tim Lincecum waits his turn, still yet to pitch
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  SAN FRANCISCO -- Tim Lincecum walked silently through the bustling clubhouse before Saturday's workout and stuck his left arm straight out as he passed Jean Machi's...
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• Back to the start: Affeldt comes full circle
  From the Web › MLB.com
  So much has happened for Jeremy Affeldt since he landed in San Francisco, it's as though his days of being signed, developed and brought to the Major Leagues by the...
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• World Series preview: Royals and Giants put postseason streaks on line in battle for crown
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  There are a lot of different angles that can be analyzed heading into this sure-to-be fascinating World Series matchup between the Kansas City Royals, who have not...
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• Past, present and Panda: Sandoval key to three Series teams
  From the Web › MLB.com
  This year, Pablo Sandoval is augmenting the postseason reputation he forged into gold two years ago as World Series MVP. Like teammates Buster Posey, Madison Bumgarner...
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• World Series: Kansas City, here we come!
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  San Francisco Giants are up against a team and a town that is celebrating October baseball for the first time since Kansas City Royals won the World Series in 1985...
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• Giants' do-everything man Petit ready for any task
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Just three years removed from a stint with the Oaxaca Warriors of the Mexican League, Yusmeiro Petit is headed to the World Series. Without their do-everything...
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• Replay reviews and reversals down thus far in postseason
  From the Web › MLB.com
  After calls were challenged every 1.9 games and overturned at a 47 percent clip during the first regular season of expanded replay, those numbers have dropped to one...
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• Video: Giants discuss the World Series
  From the Web › HardballTalk
  Buster Posey, Joe Panik, Pablo Sandoval, Javier Lopez, Jake Peavy and a few other Giants talk about their upcoming World Series matchup against the Royals ...
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• Giants World Series Tickets Start at Around $550 on StubHub
  From the Web › NBC
  San Francisco Giants fans wanting to attend World Series games at AT&T Park will have to pay a pretty penny to see the game -- even just to stand and watch.Ticket...
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• Giants fan who caught and returned Travis Ishikawa's walk-off homer gets World Series tickets
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  After San Francisco Giants left fielder Travis Ishikawa connected for a historic three-run walk-off home run in the ninth inning of NLCS Game 5, not everybody at AT&T...
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• Bochy: No plan for Giants to alter roster for Series
  From the Web › MLB.com
  The plan is for the Giants to carry their 25-man roster from the National League Championship Series into the World Series, manager Bruce Bochy said during a workout at...
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• Kawakami: These Giants play country hardball
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  Bound for the World Series, Madison Bumgarner, Jake Peavy and Buster Posey head a group of Southern boys who have brought 'country ways' to San Francisco
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• Pence becomes Giants' leading voice
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  San Francisco Giants right fielder Hunter Pence accepts his role as the voice of the team's leadership
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• Giants will keep Lincecum on World Series roster
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy said Lincecum has done enough to keep his place on the World Series roster, and that he could end up playing key role.
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• Bumgarner and Co. are Southern comfort for Bochy
  From the Web › USA Today
  The arms of this Giants staff come from one distinct region       
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• Giants have firsthand knowledge of Royals' proficiency
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Sergio Romo expects plenty of intensity from the Kansas City Royals when they face Giants in the World Series that begins Tuesday (4:30 p.m. PT airtime, 5:07 first...
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• Bochy sets World Series rotation, sees role for Lincecum
  From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
  Bruce Bochy announced his starting rotation for the World Series and revealed that Tim Lincecum will remain on the Giants' roster.
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