The Dodgers-Giants is one of baseball's greatest rivalries. Baseball fans can talk Red Sox-Yankees all they want but for me, it's the Dodgers and the Giants. The rivalry, to a certain extent, has been based on geography. The Dodgers and the Giants rivalry followed the teams from New York to California in the late 1950's.
The Dodgers can never seem to get by the San Francisco Giants, especially over the course of the past six or seven years. The Giants have been a thorn in the Dodgers side since Bobby Thomson's "shot heard round the world" in 1951. Joe Morgan's homerun off of a hanging slider by Dodgers Reliever Terry Forster in the final game of the 1982 season that gave the Atlanta Braves the National League West championship was another heartbreaking moment for the Dodgers.
Blood has been shed on the field and in the parking lot between the Dodgers and the Giants. Who can ever forget the bat wielding Juan Marichal of the Giants and the bleeding John Roseboro of the Dodgers in 1965. The beating the Giants fan got in the parking lot by the two Dodgers fans. No fan deserves a beating for sporting his team's colors no matter where he is at. Yasiel Puig and Madison Bumgarner have had a war or words over the past couple of seasons.
The Dodgers started out this season's version of the rivalry by getting swept by the Giants on the road in three games and slightly atoned for that at home in the past three games by winning two of the three. The teams two best pitchers, Clayton Kershaw and Madison Bumgarner, have squared off twice already. Both were well pitched games, both won by the Giants, 2-1. Unfortunately, four of the Giants eight wins on the season have came against the Dodgers.
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