What japanese professional baseball starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers who pitched in the 2008 Beijing Olympics was named the MVP of the series held in November 2006 with four teams participating?
Yu Darvish Yu Darvish (Japanese: ダルビッシュ 有 , Hepburn: Darubisshu Yū , born 16 August 1986) is a Japanese professional baseball starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). Darvish pitched in the 2008 Beijing Olympics as well as the 2009 World Baseball Classic as a member of the Japanese national team. Darvish previously pitched in MLB for the Texas Rangers.
2012 World Series The 2012 World Series was the 108th edition of Major League Baseball's championship series. The San Francisco Giants, the National League champions, won the best-of-seven playoff in a 4-game sweep over the American League champions Detroit Tigers. This marked the Giants' seventh World Series title in franchise history, their second in San Francisco (they won five in New York), and their second in a three-year period (2010–2012). Their World Series sweep was the first by a National League team since the Cincinnati Reds swept the Oakland Athletics in the 1990 series and the first NL sweep not by the Reds since 1963, when the Los Angeles Dodgers swept the New York Yankees. The Giants' Pablo Sandoval, who in Game 1 tied a record by hitting three home runs in one World Series game, two off of Tigers' ace Justin Verlander, was named the World Series Most Valuable Player (MVP).