You could call it a coincidence, but going into Game 3 of the Japan Series on Tuesday there was a chance something uncanny could happen in baseball on both sides of the Pacific.
Both the Giants of the United States and Japan had the opportunity to win their respective championships in exactly the same fashion; teams with their backs against the wall managing to come back and clinch their championship series before sweeping rusty opponents once they got there.
The San Francisco Giants became World Series champions with a 4-0 sweep of the Detroit Tigers on Sunday, after having come back from a 1-3 deficit to clinch a World Series berth in the National League Championship against the St. Louis Cardinals.