Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "2012 World Series" in English language version.
has finally been settled after an acrimonious two months of negotiations.
The Giants won their second consecutive 2-0 game, the franchise's first successive shutouts in a single postseason since Ferdie Schupp and Rube Benton skunked the White Sox on back-to-back days in the 1917 World Series.
The last National League team to record back-to-back World Series shutouts? Would you believe the 1919 Cincinnati Reds, and that World Series was fixed.
And after five days passed between their ALCS sweep of the New York Yankees and their World Series date with the Giants, they again were flat and meek.