"There are times we hit well," Giants general manager Brian Sabean says. "And there are times we pitch well, of course. And we field pretty well most of the time. But what I think we do really well is compete."

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It's only one game. The Rangers players said this afterward, and they were right to say it. If the Rangers can come back on Thursday, win in San Francisco, they will go home with an advantage and feeling really good about themselves. It is only one game.
But the Giants were playing with overwhelming confidence anyway, and taking out Lee only adds to that. As a baseball fan, I tend to believe in what feels real, but there's something unreal about this Giants team. When you look at them, outside looking in, they look like a team without stars. But when the Giants look at themselves, they seem to see a team where, each game, ANYONE can be the star.
"It's a powerful thing," Jeremy Affeldt said after the Giants won the National League Championship Series, "when every night players say to themselves, 'tonight's my night.'" Well, yeah, it was powerful enough to take down Cliff Lee. The Rangers might recover. But after just one game, they are definitely in the recovery room.


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With the count 2-0, he threw Renteria a cutter that cut over the heart of the plate.
"I was only looking for one pitch," Renteria said. And that was the one.
Renteria turned on it, hit it high and far. In San Francisco the ball might have been caught. In Texas, it landed in the first row of the left-field bleachers. This team in this postseason has had Cody Ross for a hero, Juan Uribe for a hero, Pat Burrell for a hero, Aubrey Huff for a hero and, yes, Edgar Renteria for a hero back in Game 2. His turn came up again.
"He told me he was going to hit a home run," said his teammate Torres. "He told me!"
"I was just joking," Renteria explained. "I said, 'I hit one out here.'"
Lincecum and closer Brian Wilson finished off the game, and the celebration roared back in the Bay. There has never been a more unlikely San Francisco sports story. It's like one longtime San Francisco baseball fan told me: "I thought I loved baseball before. But with this team, I don't know, it's something else." That longtime San Francisco baseball fan was Larry Baer, the Giants president.


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