Series Preview: No, the Giants didn’t break the Dodgers… unless?

**Series overview**

*Who:*San Francisco Giants (16-24) at Los Angeles Dodgers (24-16) *Where:* Dodger Stadium | Los Angeles, California *When:*Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 7:10pm PT *National broadcasts:*MLB Network simulcast (Thursday) **Projected starters** *Monday*: Trevor McDonald (RHP 1-0, 1.29 ERA) vs. Roki Sasaki (RHP 1-3, 5.97 ERA) *Tuesday:* Adrian Houser (RHP 0-4, 6.19 ERA) vs. Yoshinobu Yamamato (RHP 3-2, 3.09 ERA) *Wednesday:* Robbie Ray (LHP 3-4, 2.76 ERA) vs. Shohei Ohtani (RHP 2-2, 0.97 ERA) *Thursday:* Landen Roupp (RHP 5-3, 3,09 ERA) vs. Emmet Sheehan (RHP 2-1, 4.79 ERA)

**Players to watch**

**Dodgers**

***Mookie Betts:*** He’s consistently able to draw walks and hit doubles against the Giants, and even though his injury has held him back from doing any of that this year, it’ll be worth watching to see if he can come back and do it to the Giants at will. ***Max Muncy:*** No ocean for him to hit dingers into, but he went homerless against the Giants in that series loss and so I’d expect him to not have zero homers in these next four games. ***The Dodgers’ bullpen:*** Four game series really do allow teams to take the full tour of their opponent, and while the Dodgers’ lineup is impressive and scary and their rotation is very good on paper, it’s their bullpen that usually offers more growl than bite. That feels especially true with Edwin Diaz hitting the IL with loose bodies in his pitching elbow. That means the Dodgers have been injury bitten to the point that last year’s big free agent closer acquisition, Tanner Scott, is back in that role.

**Giants**

***Willy Adames:*** In the last series preview I wrote,

This series will be the definitive test to determine whether or not Willy Adames passed away at some point this season and what we’re seeing haunt the Giants lineup right now is, in fact, a g-g-g-ghost. He went 5-for-14 against Pittsburgh so, we must consider the possibility that he is not a ghost and is still alive to the point of finally starting to look like a major leaguer again. Great timing? ***Bryce Eldridge / Rafael Devers:*** Great to see Eldridge get his first homer and see Devers sock two last week, but the Giants will need both to put up big performances if they’re going to compete in the next four games. Devers is 10-for-30 with 4 doubles and a pair of homers here in the month of May.

**Tony Vitello watch**

Did Buster Posey visit Tony Vitello’s house during the hiring process? If so, I wonder what that was like. If not, why not?

**Prediction time**

The Dodgers will not sweep.