MLB UPDATE: Burrell, Huff One Win Shy of World Series

Oct. 22, 2010

Coral Gables, Fla. –

Former University of Miami Hurricanes baseball players Pat Burrell and Aubrey Huff are helping the San Francisco Giants during the 2010 National League Championship Series versus the Philadelphia Phillies. Throughout the series, HurricaneSports.com will follow the progress of both former Hurricanes in their chase for the pennant.

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Game 1 Recap: The Giants now have four of the 11 postseason wins they need to get a World Series victory parade down Market Street. The journey gets only steeper and more treacherous, but on a chilly Saturday evening inside one of baseball’s most inhospitable parks, they declared once and for all they will not be pushed off the road.

A crowd of 45,929 whistled at Tim Lincecum the way a man whistles at a woman. The fans booed Pat Burrell. Roy Halladay, who threw a no-hitter in the Division Series and almost certainly will wrest the Cy Young crown from Lincecum, was on the mound in full confidence.

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Game 2 Recap: Giants have gotten a lot of props this postseason for their grit in winning all those one-run games. Those were predicated on solid fundamental play. When their execution goes into the dumper, the results are predictable.

The Phillies won 6-1 Sunday night to send the National League Championship Series to San Francisco even at one win apiece. With Roy Oswalt dominating for eight innings, the Giants had to play near-perfect ball to have any chance. In fact, they had no chance.

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Game 3 Recap: How nice of little Cody to let all his friends play, too.

The Giants went up two games to one in the National League Championship Series on Tuesday because of a heaping helping of Matt Cain backed by a bunch of hitters who finally got to feel those back slaps that Cody Ross had been monopolizing.

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Game 4 Recap: The man with the werewolf beard was howling, but not at the full moon. Brian Wilson just pitched a scoreless ninth in a tie game, ran into the dugout and screamed, “We’re going to win this thing right here.”

What a smart puppy. Within minutes, the Giants were frolicking on the diamond after Juan Uribe’s one-out sacrifice fly gave them a crazy 6-5 victory that left them one win away from a pennant that few outside of San Francisco dared predict.

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Game 5 Recap: Play clean baseball against Roy Halladay and you might steal a win from the Cy Young front-runner, as the Giants did in Game 1. Make a bunch of mistakes, especially in rat-a-tat succession, and you book an unwanted trip to Philadelphia.

Tim Lincecum, Pablo Sandoval and Aubrey Huff handed the Phillies three runs in the third inning on a drizzly Thursday night, enough for Halladay and his team to win 4-2 and prevent the Giants from celebrating a pennant at AT&T Park.

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Game 1 Recap: The Philly talk shows had involved one-sided chatter, naturally. It wasn’t about which team would win the National League Championship Series. It was about whether the Phillies would get it done in a sweep or need to take it to a fifth game. Whatever the duration, one thing was sure: Roy Halladay wasn’t going to drop the opener.

Not the Doc.

Something went terribly wrong on the way to a Game 1 high-five line for the Phillies.

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Game 2 Recap: This Roy was an ace, and he sparked a big inning with a daring dash around the bases.

Roy Oswalt pitched eight dominant innings, Jimmy Rollins drove in four runs and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the San Francisco Giants 6-1 Sunday night to even the NL championship series at one game apiece.

A day after Tim Lincecum outdueled Roy Halladay in a marquee matchup of aces, Oswalt beat Jonathan Sanchez.

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Game 3 Recap: Man, if you thought Bruce Bochy had a big head before …

After Tuesday afternoon’s 3-0 win over the Phillies, when every move the Giants’ manager made turned to solid-gold bullion, Bochy should look like Jack, in those Jack in the Box TV commercials.

Of course, that’s not Bochy. You rip him, he shrugs. You praise him, he shrugs. You snap him with a towel, he shrugs.

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Game 4 Recap: This was a Rembrandt game, suitable for framing and to be displayed in the finest museums. So many Giants played a role, they’d have to reshoot the team photo to include everyone. You won’t find many more thrilling games in the history of San Francisco baseball, and such a proper reward: One victory away from the World Series.

This was the night Buster Posey truly came of age, the night Pablo Sandoval came back to life, the night Juan Uribe stepped out of a storybook to deliver the clincher.

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Game 5 Recap: That was a crime, what happened to Tim Lincecum. The type of crime you only get in baseball, forged by neglect, clumsiness and plain rotten luck. Nobody pays the price, either, except maybe the Giants, whose road to the World Series has taken a 2,530-mile detour.

If this team wants to be defined by its character, then a pretty fair test has arrived: Wrap up the National League Championship Series in Philadelphia. Just one win, that’s all it will take. For most of these Giants, it will be the most hard-earned win of their lives.

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