S.F. Giants win: Does it get any better than daytime playoff baseball?

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What’s the best sporting event one can attend?

Bay Area fans have had plenty to choose from. We’ve seen NFL playoff games at windy Candlestick. Rainy baseball triumph in October. U.S. Open golf at The Olympic Club. Warriors’ playoff mania. Big-time college hoops and Pac-12 championship football. We’ve even had the America’s Cup come sailing through, providing an unlikely candidate. It’s all part of the best sporting environment in the country.

But Monday reminded us what’s best of all: Daytime playoff baseball.

For the second Monday in a row, the Bay Area was riveted by an afternoon of postseason baseball, pitting the best two teams in the National League against each other in the best ballpark in the world with the best fans in the country looking on. Throw in broad daylight, extra innings and extra torture, and this is no contest.

Game 3 of the National League Championship Series was as good as it gets around here. When Gregor Blanco laid down that perfect bunt in the bottom of the 10th inning, the Cardinals threw away the ball and Brandon Crawford scampered home with the winning run. It was the perfect ending to the perfect afternoon in San Francisco.

From remaining members of the Grateful Dead crooning the anthem with Giants’ coach Tim Flannery. To unlikely hero Travis Ishikawa clearing the bases in the first and vindicating his manager’s trust . To Tim Hudson’s gutsy performance in the biggest game of his life. To Pablo Sandoval backhanding a tough-hop chance in the top of the 10th inning and throwing out the hated Matt Holliday to preserve the lead. Then bellowing to an adoring crowd.

http://blog.sfgate.com/saracevic/2014/10/14/s-f-giants-win-does-it-get-any-better-than-daytime-playoff-baseball/