Reverend Pence started the Giants offense in the second inning, running home from first off of Brandon Belt's triple. The Tigers' offense finally woke up after 20 scoreless innings, when Miguel Cabrera hit a two-run shot over the right field wall at Comerica Park in the third. The next couple innings would be a shootout in Detroit.

With Scutaro on base in the sixth, Posey drove a homer just inside the foul pole in left field to put the Giants back on top. It was Posey's first home run of this postseason:

Delmon Young homered for the Tigers in the bottom of the sixth to make it a 3-3 game. After the Young's long ball, a deep foul ball from Johnny Peralta threatened another run. Another big hit by Peralta looked like it'd get out of the park, but fell short of the wall and right into the warm embrace of Gregor Blanco's glove.

3-3 going into the seventh. Scherzer still at work, but showing some signs of wear. Batting as a DH, Theriot grounds one to shortstop, to put Blanco on second. Theriot's sacrifice would put himself and Scherzer back in their respective dugouts. The Tigers bullpen would keep the score even 3-3 through the stretch.

On his 102nd pitch, Matt Cain struck out Prince Fielder to turn over the side and bring up Marco Scutaro in the eighth. Scutaro walked to first with Sandoval, who only has a single in game four, up to bat. (Fun fact: Scherzer was the first pitcher to strike out Sandoval in this World Series.) Panda clipped a little one right to Prince Fielder at first base and the tigers would back Scutaro into a corner to tag him out between the bases. Two outs, no runners and Buster Posey swung for a disappointing strikeout.

Bottom of the eighth, Jeremy Affeldt's power goatee took the mound. Another fun fact: Affeldt and his wife recently had their third child. After the birth of each of his first two kids, Affeldt's current team won the World Series. So Larisa Affeldt has magical baseball ovaries, basically.

Affeldt walked one to bring up an intimidating Miguel Cabrera with no outs. Larisa's ovaries willing, Affeldt struck out Cabrera, Prince Fielder and Delmon Young to head into the ninth inning.

Tigers closer Phil Coke took over in the top fo the ninth, unleashing like a thousand tweets about "mounds of coke," probably. Hunter Pence, who always looks like he's ready to take off running whether or not he hits the ball, was sent back to the dugout. Coke would catch Brandon Belt and Gregor Blanco swinging to close the top of the ninth in order and bring up a chance for the Tigers to send the series back to San Francisco in game five.

With one out, Jhonny Peralta sent another threatening bomb deep to center. Angel Pagan would get his glove under it to bring up a 3-3 game with one out left before extra innings:

Santiago Casilla took over to try and strike out Omar Infante, but beaned him in the left hand instead. With a runner on first, the Giants would take it to the tenth, throwing out an easy hit to shortstop.

Designated Hitter Ryan Theriot was looking to drive the World Championship trophy home safely when he got to second on Brandon Crawford's sacrifice. Pagan struck out, but Scutaro's single to center gave Theriot plenty of time to crank out run number four and put the Giants on top.

Bottom of the tenth, Sergio Romo heads to the mound to finish the series in Detroit. With his usual bearded aplomb, Sergio Romo catches Miguel Cabrera looking to close out the tenth inning and bringing San Francisco its second World Championship title.

Back home in the streets around AT&T Park, the Mission, the Marina and everywhere in between, the impromptu celebrations are underway. Be prepared for a wonderfully hungover Monday morning and try not to set too much stuff on fire out there...

Previously: Pence on Fire: Giants Steal Game 3, 2-0
Nice Try, Detroit: Giants Win Game 2, 2-0
Bustin' Verlander: Giants Take Game One, 8-3

Detroit had a shot at breaking Ryan Vogelsong when they loaded the bases in the fifth with only one out. The average heart rate of sports bar patrons around San Francisco went up as they held their breath through two outs. With Lincecum warming up, Vogelsong struck out Quintin Berry and held on to close out the inning on Miguel Cabrera's fly to shortstop. At least one Detroit sports writer called the inning, "one of the most disheartening at-bats of the series."

Top of the sixth. Hunter Pence's crazy legs cannot be contained to the batter's box. Despite two outs already on the board, Pence scrambled to first as Prince Fielder extended his Embarrassing Game streak to two in a row.

Lincecum takes over in the sixth to finish up the 15th scoreless inning for the Detroit Tigers.

Top of the eighth, Sandoval knocks one just short of the back wall of Comerica Park, putting him up on second. Buster Posey, who hasn't been doing so much in this World Series, but we can't help but love him anyway, struck out. Facing two outs and the prospect of leaving a big cuddly panda bear stranded on second base, Pence swung one out to left, but couldn't beat the throw to first.

Bottom of their eighth, Brandon Crawford makes the first easy out. Joe Buck, probably trying to force a longer series for his bosses up in the network's skybox, jinxed it for Crawford by pointing out the shortstop had been having an impressive error-less streak. With Joe Buck's annoying voice burning his ears, Crawford bobbled the next play to first that would have closed out the inning. Lincecum caught Andy Dirks swinging to work the Giants out of the error and keep the Tigers scoreless.

Top of the ninth, one out. Sanchez, in as designated hitter in the American League park, couldn't get anything working. Gregor Blanco strikes out and has a few words with the umpire on his way to the dugout.

Bottom of the ninth, 2012 Bearded Closer Sergio Romo takes the mound with a hungry look in his eye:

Blanco gets his out back with an impressive effort running down a ball deep to the warning track in left field. Second out was a fly to Pagan in left-center. Two outs and no Tigers on base, Omar Infante stretches a two-strike count with a couple foul balls. After a little chat with Posey, Infante whiffs the third strike.

With the shutout, the Giants could close out the Championship in Comerica Park tomorrow. Matt Cain starts game four. First pitch at 5 p.m. PST.

It's on.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and Detroit Mayor David Bing wasted no time snatching off each other's proverbial wigs prior to Game 1 of the Giants-vs.-Tigers World Series. "The San Francisco Giants are truly the comeback kids—this team never quits," Lee said in a written statement. "The city of Detroit also has a reputation for making an impressive comeback, although I fear I won't get to see this firsthand, as the Giants are bound to win the World Series."

Grrl.

Mayor Bing too didn't hold back. "The Giants have had great success, but we've already proven we can handle any team out of the Bay Area," Bing declared, while referencing to the Tigers' smack down over the Oakland A's in the ALDS earlier this month (and making a low-blow comparison of Oakland to San Francisco.)

The two mayors have also made friendly (albeit boring) bets. If the Giants win, Bing must come to San Francisco to play baseball with youths in the Junior Giants program "and tour various companies in the city." (And by "tour various companies," we think he means "tour Twitter.") But if the Tigers win (chortle), Lee must fly to Detroit to "tour the factory that produces the Chevy Volt, the car Lee uses as his official city vehicle."

These two obviously need an Absolut cocktail in the Interior Illusions Lounge before it gets any uglier.

Game 1 of the World Series starts at 5:07 p.m. today at AT&T Park.

[SF Appeal]

PS- and yesterday's It's It's Got to Be the Morning After, Bitch was indeed a shout-out to Ms. Spears, y’all.

49ers 20 Cardinals 17- The opening game of the NFL season is like Christmas and watching the game and checking out the team is like opening presents. If the Raiders are the present that comes from your crazy aunt Sadie who sends you something completely crazy every year, the Niners this year was the present from your cool uncle who kept on telling you for months how great the present was. Well, the packaging might have looked pretty-- the team wore their Old Skool unis, Nolan was decked out in his suit, and ESPN found just which cheerleader to focus in just such a way, the present was kind of meh. All those shiny new offensive toys the Niners were supposed to play with didn’t really work. Gore never got on track, passes were dropped, and Smith didn't look very accurate. On the other hand, Smith had the big play of the game, scrambling for a long run with about a minute left in the game to get a first down. Oh, yeah, the Niners did win with a stirring last minute comeback, but this game was like sitting down for what was billed as an action-packed thriller but getting a slow, character driven movie instead, more Jackie Brown than Pulp Fiction. Still, a win is a win is a win and this is what they call in the biz as a win. Nicely done Red & Gold.

In Raiders news, they finally got around to signing JaMarcus Russell. Nothing like losing to the Detroit Lions to make you see your senses. The deal is the biggest rookie contract in NFL history- $60 million for six years and about half of it guaranteed. The 2008 season is looking up already, Raiders fans.

Dbacks 5 Giants 3- At an intimate gathering among some of their closest friends, the Giants bullpen blew yet another game in yet another fun-filled fashion. Up 3-2 in the ninth, Brad Hennessey gave up a lead-off double, threw a wild pitch, and then walked another batter after getting a couple of outs. With two on and two outs, kiss it goodbye-- Arizona's Jeff Salazar hit a three run home run to take the lead. The Enchanter, btw, was all set to get the win but was Cained yet again.

As 9 M's 3- The A's regained a measure of respect after their Lost Weekend by taking their frustrations out of the free, free-falling (come 'on, everybody sing!) Damage was done by Kurt "Not Ichiro" Suzuki who hit a grand slam and Joe Blanton who won his fifth game out of six. The Mariners have now lost fourteen out of sixteen games and, well, ouch. Thanks to their collapse, as well as the Tigers, we have them to thank for the Yankees getting into the playoffs. Thanks guys.