Their roster is more unsung than the Dodgers', but the Giants are experienced, have an outstanding bullpen and optimize the platoon advantage.
Most teams that win 107 regular-season games would expect to run away with the division title the way Secretariat did with the 1973 Belmont Stakes, when the great stallion capped a Triple Crown victory with a 31-length win.
over the St. Louis Cardinals—with a series of clutch hits and late-inning heroics down the stretch should give San Francisco plenty of confidence when the archrivals meet in the best-of-five NL Division Series beginning Friday night.LaMonte Wade Jr. of the Giants hits an RBI single in the ninth inning against the San Diego Padres on Sept. 21.
The Dodgers have the reigning World Series and NL Championship Series most valuable player in shortstop Corey Seager, who had a torrid September, but it’s the Giants shortstop — resurgent 34-year-old veteran Brandon Crawford — who will garner regular-season MVP votes this season.Crawford had career-highs in average , OPS , homers and RBIs , and hit .353 with a 1.098 OPS with runners in scoring position.
“There are some intangibles those projections and those viewpoints fail to take into consideration,” Kapler told the Oracle Park crowd after Sunday’s clincher. “The first is toughness. We had so many points over the course of the season when it would have been easy for us to quit, and we never did. He did not give up a run while striking out 20 and walking three in 14 1/3 innings of 15 games since Sept. 5, and he teams with the submarine-throwing Rogers and the hard-throwing lefty McGee to give the Giants three diverse late-inning looks.Giants first baseman Brandon Belt, left, celebrating a home run against the Rangers on May 10, broke his left thumb in late September.
Farhan Zaidi, who left the Dodgers to become San Francisco’s president of baseball operations before the 2019 season, has built a platoon-heavy Giants lineup, just like he did as Dodgers general manager from 2015 to 2018.
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