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2nd Title Makes Giants An Elite Franchise

 

DETROIT (CBS Sports) - It ended the way it had to end, with Marco Scutaro (who else?) shooting a fastball onto a wide-open patch of Michigan grass.

It ended the way it should have ended, with the man who this summer lost his job to Scutaro racing home from second on the hit with the winning run.

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It ended the only way it could have ended after this postseason run, with one of baseball's oldest franchises planting its flag as baseball's newest measuring stick.

Officially and formally, now, they are Giants among men, Giants among baseball franchises, and the Giants of 2012.

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