![]() It had those in the sellout crowd of 53,193 (announced) in The Ravine on the edges of their seats, and Dodgers and Cardinals fans at home on the edges of their couches, La-Z-Boys, etc. Maybe the wild-card game will be a palate cleanser, between the intensity of the regular season battle and the upcoming series. “It’s his choice, so knowing him it’s going to be some type of first growth, so it’s not going to be cheap.”Īnd now? “I’m gonna shoot him a text tonight to go double or nothing,” he said afterward. “I lost a dinner and a nice bottle of Bordeaux because we didn’t win the division,” Roberts revealed before the game. But Roberts had a friendly wager with his former boss, Bruce Bochy, who managed Roberts both with the San Diego Padres and with the Giants. There’s no indication that Andrew Friedman and his former lieutenant in L.A., Farhan Zaidi, have had any byplay back and forth. It’s gonna be a great series, a fantastic series.” There’s a lot of familiarity, and that makes it fun and even more challenging. They think a lot of the (same) way we think, with platoons and matchups. “Giants-Dodgers, one of the great rivalries in sports. “It’s what baseball wants,” Manager Dave Roberts said. These are the two best teams in the game, and the path to the World Series – and, for the Dodgers, to what they are dubbing #RepeatLA – should involve these ancient rivals.Ī best-of-seven series would be better, but this will do. ![]() The Giants won 10 of the teams’ 19 meetings, which represents the one-game margin in the standings. The teams will begin what should be an epic series Friday with Walker Buehler and Logan Webb matching up in Game 1. Remember, if Kenley Jansen hadn’t blown back-to-back saves in July against the Giants, the Dodgers would have won 108 games and the division by three games, and San Franciscans would be complaining while the Dodgers would be cooling their heels until Friday’s NLDS opener. Scherzer’s point, when he spoke Tuesday, responded to the pundits and partisans who railed about the unfairness of it all. Why do you think the Dodgers and Giants played so intensely, and so well, in the final month and particularly the final week of the regular season? It is a powerful incentive for a team to win its division, because of that threat of elimination and because that extra game stretches out the winner’s pitching staff a little more going into the next series. Their fan base, meanwhile, will need at least a day to come down from the stress of a taut game in which the margin for error was slim and the threat of elimination hung over Dodger Stadium like a thick cloud.Īnd that is why the wild-card game exists. The Dodgers will fly to San Francisco for Friday night’s opener of the best-of-five National League Division Series, and if emotions were fuel they wouldn’t need a plane.
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