This is for all the people who predicted the Arizona Diamondbacks to win the NL West last spring.

This is for all the people who said the Giants were finished with Brian Wilson was lost for the season.

This is for all the people who said the Dodgers were the team to beat in the NL West after building a 7.5-game in late May.

This is for all the people who said Pablo Sandoval didn’t deserve to be an All-Star (yeah, were talking to you Sandy Alderson. By the way, thanks for Angel Pagan).

This is for all the people who said the Giants couldn’t win with Tim Lincecum posting a 5+ ERA.

This is for all the people who said trading for Marco Scutaro was a sorry excuse for answer to the Dodgers’ acquisition of Hanley Ramirez.

This is for all the people who said the Giants were REALLY done after Melky Cabrera was suspended.

This is for all the people who said the Dodgers were AGAIN the team to beat after trading Adrian Gonzalez, Josh Beckett, et al. (How far behind the Giants did they finish?)

This is for all the people who said the Giants were done after falling behind 0-2 to the Reds in the NL Division Series.

This is for the people who said the Giants were done after falling behind 1-3 to the Cardinals in the NL Championship Series.

This is for all the people who said the Tigers were the CLEAR favorite over the Giants in the World Series.

This is for all the people who said the Giants should give up on Pablo Sandoval, Barry Zito, Brandon, Belt, Tim Lincecum and Hunter Pence.

This is for all the people who called the Giants 2010 World Series title a fluke.

The Giants are up 3 games to none in the World Series, which is better than 2-1 and certainly better than being down 1-2 or 0-3.

But nothing is certain. And the Giants don’t need to give the Tigers a spark.

So here are 10 good reason why the Giants need to finish this TODAY.

NO. 10 — The 49ers play on Monday night.

San Francisco fans don’t need dueling sporting events. If the Giants don’t win Sunday, they would play at 5:07 p.m. Monday with the 49ers kicking off vs. the Cardinals at 5:30 p.m. in another key NFC West matchup. So, c’mon Giants, let’s clear the schedule for the 49ers.

NO. 9 — No double-dip mojo

MoreSplashHits follows three sports teams in the fall: the San Francisco Giants, the San Francisco 49ers and the Oregon State Beavers. We haven’t been able to get two wins on the same day this October. On Saturday, Oct. 6, the Beavers beat Washington State, but the Giants lost to the Reds. The next day, the 49ers buried the Jets, but the Giants lost again to the Reds. On Oct. 13, the Beavers beat BYU, but the Giants were off. The next day, the 49ers lost to the N.Y. Giants, and the Giants lost to the Cardinals (a bad day). The following Thursday, the 49ers beat the Seahawks, but the Giants lost to the Cardinals. The next Saturday, the Beavers beat Arizona, but the Giants were off. And yesterday, the Giants beat the Tigers, but the OSU lost to Washington. The Giants and 49ers would both play Monday if the Giants don’t seal the deal Sunday. So, Giants, seal the deal.

NO. 8 — Cain Day is Clincher Day

The Giants are up 3-0 and they haven’t even thrown their ace. It can’t work out much better for the Giants. Plus, Matt Cain was on the mound when the Giants clinched the NLDS vs. the Reds. He was on the mound when they clinched the NLCS vs. the Cardinals. He’s out there again.

NO. 7 — Max Scherzer is on the mound

While the Giants throw out their ace, the Tigers counter with their No. 4 pitcher. Yes, Scherzer has a postseason ERA under 1.00, but he’s also been battling a shoulder issue. This should be the Giants’ big opportunity to score some runs.

NO. 6 — I’ve got stuff to do Monday

My schedule is clear Sunday to watch the Giants … and celebrate. On Monday, there are things to do, places to be. I don’t want to watch the Giants on the DVR Monday. Win this today

NO. 5 — History says they should win today.

Of the 23 teams to go up 3-0 in a best-of-seven World Series, 20 have gone on to clinch in Game 4. The three others won in Game 5.

NO. 4 — The weather

Sunday’s forecast is good in Detroit. But rain creeps in the picture on Monday with 40 percent chance of PM showers. If those showers are heavy and persistent enough to postpone the game, rain is in the forecast all day Tuesday, and it remains in the forecast in some form Wednesday and Thursday.

NO. 3 — Verlander

The Giants tagged Justin Verlander in Game 1. The odds of a repeat are long. Yes, they beat Cliff Lee twice in 2010, but the second game was much tougher than the first.

NO. 2 — Barry Zito

Zito has been very, very good his last two starts. The Giants have won his last 14 starts. Do we really want to temp that mojo? Something has to give eventually, and I’d rather that happen next April.

NO. 1 — Champagne is way better the Alka-Seltzer

Giants fans have endured enough stress and angst, not only this postseason, but the entire season. We don’t need more stress. Not sure we can take it. A party is ready to happen. LET’S DO THIS NOW!!!!!!!

There was a frightening play in Game 2 of the World Series on Thursday.

In the second inning, the Giants’ Gregor Blanco hit a liner back up the middle that hit off the top of pitcher Doug Fister’s head and fell in front of center fielder Austin Jackson for a single.

The Tigers’ training staff rushed out to check on the Detroit pitcher, who appeared to be fine. Still, they asked him the usual questions.

Where are you at?

“San Francisco. Game 2.”

What inning is it?

“Second”

What the hell was Gene Lamont thinking by sending Prince Fielder home on that double to left?

“I have no idea.”

Yep, he’s fine.

In game in which there were several key plays, the play in the top of the second loomed as the largest.

To set the scene: Fielder was on first base with no one out. Dmitri Young laces a double inside the third base bag. Blanco played the ball off the wall near the Giants bullpen as Lamont waved Fielder home.

From there, everything went perfectly for the Giants. Blanco hit cut-off man Marco Scutaro, Scutaro threw a strike to catcher Buster Posey, Posey applied a quick sweep tag to the sliding Fielder and umpire Dan Iassogna made a great — and correct — out call.

And while it took a perfect play to get Fielder, the decision to send him home was still questionable.

Tigers manager Jim Leyland called the decision “over-aggressive.” Even Lamont had second thoughts.

“If I had to do it over,” Lamont would say later, “I would have held him.”

That would have been the right call. It would have put runners on second and third and no outs — against a pitcher who had struggled in his previous two outings. And as the Giants would later show, you don’t need a hit to score a run.

But Lamont wasn’t totally at fault. On the slide at home, Fielder’s lead leg went right over the plate, and the first contact he had with the plate was his bent sliding leg, giving Posey a split-second more to apply the tag.

And then there was on-deck hitter Jhonny Peralta, who must have been too busy pondering why his first name is spelled the way it is to get into proper position to alert Fielder that the throw was coming to the inside of the plate and his slide should have been wide.

In a tight game, it’s the little things that can prove to be big.

And some good luck helps, too. Someone upstairs must like the black-and-orange.

The Tigers thought they got some good luck when Omar Infante’s bouncer into the hole at short handcufffed Brandon Crawford for an infield. Then, the luck changed.

Miguel Cabrera hit a rope to third base that was snagged by Pablo Sandoval. Then Fielder hit a shot to left that in many ballparks might have been a home run. In AT&T, it was a warning-track fly out.

Then in the seventh, the Giants started a rally with a single by Hunter Pence, who has been in a major funk at the plate this postseason. After Fister was lifted for lefty Doug Smyly, Brandon Belt worked a walk.

Blanco came up to bunt the runners over. After working the count to 3-1, Blanco dropped a bunt that traveled 40 feet along the dirt between the grass and the third-base line for an infield hit.

“I was joking with Roberto Kelly when I got to first base, ‘We practiced that today,'” Blanco said. “That was a perfect bunt. I wasn’t really trying to do that. I think it was just meant to be and I’m thankful that I did it.”

Was it his best bunt ever?

“It has to be,” Blanco said, “and I think the best at-bat of my career, too.”

With the bases loaded and no one out, Leyland decided to play the infield back. He got the double-play ball he was looking for from Brandon Crawford. But it allowed Pence to score the game’s first run.

In the eighth, the Giants loaded the bases on walks to Angel Pagan, Pablo Sandoval and Buster Posey, giving Giants fans visions of the walk-aided seven-run eighth inning in Game 2 of the 2010 World Series vs. the Rangers.

But this time, Pence fell behind 0-2, as he has so often done this postseason. But this time instead of striking out, Pence fouled off a couple of pitches before lifting a fly ball to right center for a sacrifice fly and a 2-0 lead.

So the Giants lead the Tigers 2-0 in the series after scoring two runs on outs and getting seven shutout innings from Madison Bumgarner, who had an 11.25 ERA in the 2012 postseason entering the game.

They’ve got a double off the third base bag, a single that traveled 40 feet and a perfectly executed outfield relay play home.

The Giants have to be feeling pretty fortunate.

“Baseball’s so hard, this game’s about having luck,” Blanco said. “You can hit the ball 10 times with a line drive to center field and go 0 for 10.”

Pitcher Ryan Vogelsong said: “You hate to say it, but sometimes you need some luck. I used to be one of those guys who said you create your own luck, but sometimes in this game that’s not the case and the ball has to bounce your way.”

So are the baseball gods shining on the Giants?

“I don’t know about baseball gods, but I’ll tell you one thing: I hope the ball keeps bouncing our way,” reliever Jeremy Affeldt said. “It’s been huge for us.”

Amen.