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All signs pointed to a competitive 2012 fall classic between the detroit tigers and the san francisco giants. A pair of rbi singles from delmon young in the first and avisail garcia in the third innings got the scoring going for detroit, before a pair of tworun. Its also available for football, basketball and hockey. Saginaw radio state wsgwam, 790 will still carry the detroit tigers world series games, but will have to use the espn broadcasts instead of the tigers broadcasts by dan dickerson and jim price.
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