But in the spirit of good-natured exhibitions games, the Giants take on the Texas Ranger in a rematch of last year's Fall Classic. The game will be broadcast on CSN Bay Area with first pitch at 6:05pm PST.
You're not likely to see quite the same intensity as last October. It's even less likely that you'll see Ian Kinsler hit a homerun bounce off the top of a wall and fly straight back for a double. But nonetheless, I'm sure the Rangers will enjoy getting another crack at the Black and Orange.
Courtesy of Henry Schulman at the San Francisco Chronicle, here are the projected starting lineups:
For the Rangers: Kinsler 2B, Andrus SS, Hamilton LF, Cruz RF, Young DH, Moreland 1B, Torrealba C, Davis 3B, Borbon CF.
For the Giants: Torres CF, Sanchez 2B, Sandoval 3b, Ross RF, Burrell LF, DeRosa SS, Belt 1B, Ishikawa DH, Stewart C.
Alexi Ogando will be pitching for the Rangers, while Jonathan Sanchez will go for the Giants.
I know it's only exhibition and it'll likely turn into a AA game by the 6th inning, but it'll be a lot of fun to see those two teams on the field together again.
It happened so recently that maybe it's impossible to truly appreciate it now. But these names, the colors, the faces -- these are the things we're going to remember when we look back on 2010 many years from now. Those 5 glorious games last fall when all our dreams came true.
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