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The Giants and Dodgers are set to clash in a series that highlights the disparity in their competitiveness. The Dodgers have dominated recent matchups, raising concerns about the Giants' ability to retain their fanbase amidst this rivalry.
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*Who:*Los Angeles Dodgers (16-6) vs. San Francisco Giants (9-13) *Where:*Oracle Park | San Francisco, California *When:*Tuesday & Wednesday at 6:45pm PT, Thursday at 12:45pm PT *National broadcasts:*None. **Projected starters** Tuesday: Yoshinobu Yamamoto (RHP 2-1, 2.10 ERA) vs. Landen Roupp (RHP 3-1, 2.38 ERA) Wednesday: Shohei Ohtani (RHP 2-0, 0.50 ERA) vs. Tyler Mahle (RHP 0-3, 7.23 ERA) Thursday: Tyler Glasnow (RHP 2-0, 3.24 ERA) vs. Logan Webb (RHP 2-2, 5.40 ERA)
***Max Muncy:*** This guy… still? Yes. The Dodgers’ third baseman by default leads the team with 8 home runs and has already had a 3-home run game (in LA vs. the Rangers) and a pair of 2-home run games (Friday and last night in Colorado). He’s hit 11 in Oracle Park, his second-most of any MLB park (after Coors, obviously) and he sports a .960 OPS in 45 career games there (185 PA). ***Kyle Tucker:*** You know the Dodgers are good when they’re 15-6 and I’ve mentioned a bunch of players who aren’t the guy who signed a 4-year, $240 million contract in the offseason. Now, the $60 million AAV is not actually that given deferrals and a signing bonus, but this high AAV/short-term deal is a deal really only the Dodgers, Mets, and probably the Yankees could do, and them doing it isn’t necessarily something that’s unfair to the rest of the sport. Any team can do deferrals, they just have to be willing. Personally, I think high-AAV, short-term deals are the way to go for top of the market free agents, especially pitchers, and it’s simply incumbent on teams to develop good players who cost less to be able to shoulder these big spends. I also don’t agree that there should be a salary cap, but I *do* agree that lowering the Competitive Balance Tax AAV figure through deferrals is a loophole worth closing (in other words, teams can defer, but the AAV should be the actual AAV of the total deal). Anyway, Tucker is hitting just .256/.347/.390 in 95 PA with the Dodgers. He has just 3 homers and a pair of doubles as extra base hits. He adds 3 stolen bases and a 12.6 BB% to 20 K% as well. In 15 career games against the Giants, he’s just 11-for-55, but in 6 career games at Oracle, he’s 6-for-24. No homers, though, only a pair of doubles. You can easily envision him becoming a spoiler late in the game, though, if the Giants somehow contain the rest of the Dodgers’ lineup. ***Will Smith:*** It was either Smith or Ohtani for this final spot. Ohtani has 4 home runs and an .877 career OPS at ORacle Park (15 games), but Will Smith is just peskier. He has 23 RBI in 31 games (140 PA) at ORacle to go with a .322/.407/.463 line. Just 2 homers but ***9*** doubles, his most in any other park besides Dodger Stadium.
***Rafael Devers:*** I’m posting this article so late in the day that I doubt anyone has read down this far, but if you’re still here, let’s see if Rafael Devers can finally get off the mat. He’s hitting .225/.266/.315 to start the season (94 PA in 22 games) and it *is* his worst start to a season of his 10-season career. The last time he got off to such a bad start was in 2020, when he had a .603 OPS through his first 93 PA and then a .907 OPS through his final 155. So, it was literally at this point of that season — okay, well, not exactly, since that was just a 60-game schedule that started in July — that he started to turn things around. Then again, he’s a career .156 hitter against the Dodgers (18 games, 80 PA). ***Logan Webb:*** The Giants’ ace has looked very much not like an ace already this season when, normally, it takes the Dodgers to come into town and pants him in front of everybody. He brings a 5.40 season ERA into a matchup where he has a career 4.47 ERA, and last year it was 5.79 in 4 starts. ***Erik Miller:*** He once struck out Shohei Ohtani in five consecutive plate appearances. If he is the Giants’ closer going forward, this will be a big series for him, and not just because of Ohtani. There’s also Max Muncy, Kyle Tucker, Dalton Rushing, and Hyeseong Kim. He has a career 7.11 ERA against the Dodgers.
I figure the team and media surrounding the team still feels there’s a meaningful rivalry between these two teams and so it’s in that spirit I explore how Tony Vitello could become a part of it. First, there’s nothing he can say, exactly, that might jump him into the fold. I think only a series win or a sweep helps him see how intense this could be (in theory). But I suspect his head is still swirling with the adjustment to really wrap his head around how big this once was. He’s been seeing every night how outmatched the Giants are, so maybe that’s one thing that will help him keep perspective. He’s not going to get too up or too down about what happens these next three games.
The Giants will probably win a game in this series, but if they don’t, it won’t be a surprise. Max Muncy will homer. One of the bullpens will blow a lead. Beat LA will be heard, but not as loudly as you remember hearing it from the crowd in the past.