Several players would benefit from a four-day break between the end of the regular season Sunday and the start of the Division Series. “We’re focused on the step right in front of us.” “We’ve demonstrated consistently we don’t get too high or too low,” manager Gabe Kapler said. With two games to go, the Giants have a shot to win 108 games, which would tie those Mets and the 1975 Reds for the most in the league since 1969. San Francisco’s remarkable season now includes: a win total that stands at 106 - matching the franchise’s all-time best mark, set in 1904 - and the most wins in the NL through 160 games since the 1986 Mets also won 106.
“We’ve kind of joked about it, mainly the older guys, how we have so many wins, but every day you come to the park and we still have to win that game - there’s no let up,” outfielder Darin Ruf said of the tight race with L.A. Any combination of one Giants win or a Dodgers loss means the NLDS will start Friday at Oracle Park, providing some rest for the most veteran roster in baseball.
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What clinching the division would mean? A nice long break for the Giants before the NL Division Series against the winner of the wild-card game, which would be between the Dodgers and the Cardinals in Los Angeles on Wednesday. The Dodgers were still in the eighth inning when Camilo Doval, the kid closer, was polishing off the Giants’ shutout win at Oracle Park, but Los Angeles held on to beat Milwaukee. And then the team and its fans had to sit and wait to see if the Brewers could finish off Los Angeles, which lost starter Clayton Kershaw to an injury in the second. The Giants took care of business on their end, dispatching the Padres 3-0.
The crowd at Oracle Park alternated between “Let’s Go Giants!” and “Beat L.A.!” chants, even though the Dodgers were 378 miles to the south, playing Milwaukee and desperately trying to stay in the NL West race. Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The Chronicle Show More Show Less Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 9 of9īuster Posey (28) congratulates Darin Ruf on his solo home run in the bottom of the first. in a rundown to end San Diego’s scoring threat in the top of the sixth inning. Giants third baseman Evan Longoria (left) tags out the Padres’ Fernando Tatis Jr. (31) in the sixzth inning as the San Francisco Giants played the San Diego Padres at Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, October 1, 2021., Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The Chronicle Show More Show Less 8 of9 (23) tagged out in a rundown by Evan Longoria (10) in the sixth inning to keep the Padres from scoring as the San Francisco Giants played the San Diego Padres at Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, October 1, 2021., Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The Chronicle Show More Show Less 7 of9ĭonovan Solano (7) smiles as he is high fived after scoring on a sacrifice fly by LaMonte Wade Jr. (23) being tagged out in a rundown by Evan Longoria (10) in the sixth inning to keep the Padres from scoring as the San Francisco Giants played the San Diego Padres at Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, October 1, 2021., Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The Chronicle Show More Show Less 2 of9īrandon Crawford (35) high fives Darin Ruf (33) after he hit a solo homerun in the first as the San Francisco Giants played the San Diego Padres at Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, October 1, 2021., Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The Chronicle Show More Show Less 3 of9ĭarin Ruf (33) rounds the bases after hitting a solo homerun in the first inning as the San Francisco Giants played the San Diego Padres at Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, October 1, 2021., Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The Chronicle Show More Show Less 4 of9īrandon Crawford (35) completes the double play on a ball hit by Adam Frazier (12) with Trent Grisham (2) out at second in the third inning as the San Francisco Giants played the San Diego Padres at Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, October 1, 2021., Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The Chronicle Show More Show Less 5 of9Īnthony DeSclafani (26) pitches for the Giants in the first as the San Francisco Giants played the San Diego Padres at Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, October 1, 2021., Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The Chronicle Show More Show Less 6 of9įernando Tatis Jr.
Buster Posey (28) and pitcher Jose Alvarez (48) react to Fernando Tatis Jr.
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