The San Francisco Giants are NL West champions for the primary time in 9 years after capping off a 107-win season (a group file!) with an 11-4 victory towards the San Diego Padres on Sunday.
The sport was by no means actually unsure, which gave the oldsters who’re answerable for the scoreboard at Oracle Park ample time to provide you with a top quality trolling effort.
See, the NL Wild Card matchup was set mainly the second the Giants jumped method forward of the Padres, guaranteeing they’d advance to the NLDS. San Francisco’s victory prevented a possible tie atop the NL West between the Giants and Dodgers, a state of affairs that might’ve jump-started a one-game tiebreaker for the division, with the loser dropping to the Wild Card spherical to play the St. Louis Cardinals.
So somewhat than proceed displaying the Dodgers’ rating of their common season finale towards the Milwaukee Brewers — a recreation that did technically matter to Giants followers till it very a lot did not — the scoreboard operators went forward and displayed a really completely different, yet-to-be-decided contest. They modified the scoreboard to point out “STL” and “LA.”
That is additionally only a truth! The Dodgers and Cardinals will play one another Wednesday to resolve who will get to play the Giants within the NLDS. I’ve a sense, nevertheless, the Oracle Park scoreboard operators is not going to be faithfully updating the Dodgers-Cardinals tally on Wednesday evening.
