Visiting the Giants in their final regular-season series, it should be noted that it was through beating up the lower class of the NL and AL as well that the Dodgers built their way towards a 97-win record. After possessing baseball’s top records against winning teams a season ago, the Dodgers have extracted more overall wins out of simply handling the inferior teams.
With no more games against clubs with a record over .500 in the regular season, we can confirm the Dodgers will have a .500 record against them,
winning 36 of 72. Meanwhile, regardless of other results this last weekend, the Dodgers will finish with MLB’s best record versus losing teams—already accumulating 61 wins against them—and even amidst that contrast, a 6-4 record versus their biggest rivals doesn’t jump off the page quite like you’d expect.
In fact, Los Angeles needs a sweep here to at least even the success of the previous two campaigns, having last dropped a season series to San Francisco in 2021—the year of their unbelievable record that cut off the Dodgers’ sequence of NL West titles.
Tarik Skubal will take the ball for this series opener, wrapping up a curious stretch in his schedule facing the same two teams over the span of four appearances—with back-to-back outings against the Giants following two straight versus the Reds. Skubal’s latest outing against the Giants was his worst one in Dodger blue, allowing four runs in five innings, but even that wasn’t enough to stop this team’s streak of six wins when their prized left-hander takes the mound.
Friday game info
- Teams: Dodgers at Giants
- Ballpark: Oracle Park, San Francisco
- Start time: 7:15 p.m.
- TV: SportsNet LA
- Radio: AM 570 (English), KTNQ 1020 AM (Spanish)
