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New York, Nov 2 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Edgar Renteria gave a “Most Valuable Player” performance in what could be his last game for the San Francisco Giants. He helped the Philadelphia Giants to wrap up the Game 5 of the World Series and eventually win their first world championship in several years. The 35-year-old’s seventh-inning three-run home run decided the tie.

Renteria has done this before. In 1997, he provided the game winning RBI for the Marlins to win the world championship. For his performance and by that achievement, Renteria becomes one of the rare players in the history of the game to decide two World Series. Those feats are shared by Yogi Berra, Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio and Renteria becomes just the fourth player to achieve that feat.

Ironically, the season was not one that Renteria will want to remember, save the MVP performance during the Game 5 of the World Series. He has struggled with injuries the whole season which made him play only 72 games throughout the season. He can forget all that now because his performance was extraordinary. He even predicted that he was going to do it. Teammate, Andres Torres shouted “he told me he was going to do it!” when he hit the home run.