The San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers are locked in a good race to win the Nationwide League West division. That race solely received tighter after the Giants misplaced first baseman Brandon Belt to damage.
So it is no shock the MLB Community, which is majority owned by the league itself, is making an attempt to capitalize on the rivalry because the season involves a detailed with a video montage highlighting the historical past of the 2 groups over the previous 130 years on two completely different coasts.
Sure, the Giants and the Dodgers are very long time rivals. Sure, they had been rivals on the East Coast earlier than coming to the West Coast. Sure, Bobby Thompson’s “shot heard ‘around the world” is not simply probably the most iconic moments in Giants-Dodgers lore, it is probably the most iconic moments in all of baseball. Sure … wait, what!?
“Whereas the Giants and Dodgers have mixed to win 4 of the final 11 World Sequence … .”
Sure, whereas technically true, the Giants are doing the heavy lifting in that assertion — profitable the World Sequence in 2010, 2012 and 2014 — and, properly, being topped the champion of a 60-game common season with a 16-team postseason match is not precisely the identical factor. You’ll be able to put an enormous, fats asterisk subsequent to the 2020 World Sequence winner as a consequence of COVID-19.
When you cannot anticipate the MLB Community to de-legitimize the 2020 season and the World Sequence, of us on Twitter weren’t going to let that “4 of the final 11” assertion simply slip by like a gradual grounder by means of the infield.
The Giants presently have a two-game lead over the Dodgers within the NL West, with every workforce having six video games left to play earlier than the conclusion of Tuesday evening’s contests. The season ends Oct. 3.
