The Padres will counter with veteran Joe Musgrove on Saturday, but San Diego has not yet named a starting pitcher for the regular season finale. The Giants have their top two starting pitchers scheduled to start the final two games of the season as right-hander Kevin Gausman will pitch Saturday while another righty, Logan Webb, is lined up to pitch Sunday. Louis Cardinals, a club that has won 19 of its last 20 games, on Wednesday in the wild card game. The second-place finisher in the NL West will host the St. The team that wins the division will secure home field advantage throughout the postseason and open the NLDS on Friday, October 8 against the winner of the NL wild card game.
DODGERS MAGIC NUMBER 2021 SERIES
The Giants earned the right to host a potential Game 163 by defeating the Dodgers 10-9 in the season series between the clubs. If the Giants lose both of their remaining games and the Dodgers win each of their final two games, the clubs will meet at Oracle Park on Monday for a Game 163 that will determine the winner of the division. The Dodgers have only gained one game on the Giants in the standings over their last 53 games, despite going 40-13. and the Dodgers (99-56) took a significant turn in San Francisco’s favor as. The Dodgers fell behind the Brewers 5-1 on Friday, but shortstop Trea Turner launched a game-tying grand slam off Milwaukee starter Eric Lauer in the fifth inning before Los Angeles took a lead it wouldn’t relinquish with a pinch-hit homer from Matt Beaty in the sixth inning off of former Giants righty Jandel Gustave. San Francisco's magic number to clinch the NL West title down to three. SF Giants magic number to win NL West at 6 after ‘Captain’ Belt’s record-setting night. So if you're holding it against Dusty for taking a job with the Giants in that environment, well, I don't know what to say to you.SF Giants should start to get healthier this weekend Meanwhile, even if he wanted to take a job with his hometown Dodgers, we have no idea if a coaching or managerial job was ever available or offered to him there.Īnd if you want to dig a little deeper, Dusty started coaching only a year after Al Campanis got fired for telling Ted Koppel that black players didn't have the "necessities" to be coaches or GMs, so you have to wonder what the team culture was like at the time and what opportunities Dusty realistically perceived there. The second-place Dodgers beat the Padres 2-1, and the Giants’ magic number for winning the National League West dropped a notch to 4 - with five games to play. Baseball life being what it is he probably didn't even plan on staying in SF, but the organization treated him well and promoted him to hitting coach and then manager in only a few years. Any Dodgers loss lowers the Giants’ magic number by one, so in the unlikely scenario San Francisco finishes the season 0-4, Los Angeles would need to end the season 1-3 to lose the NL West race. When he started as a coach with the Giants in 1988, he'd been in the bay area for 3 years with the Giants and A's and had probably settled down a little bit there, so I'm sure it seemed like a good opportunity. The first known usage of the magic number came during the pennant race between the Yankees and Red Sox during the 1947. The second-place team (in terms of total losses) must always be used as the barometer for the first-place team's magic number. The Los Angeles Dodgers or San Francisco Giants will get the. If a new second-place team emerges, the magic number adjusts to that new second place team.
I'm seconding all of this and adding that it's really messed up to hate on Dusty for taking a coaching (and eventually managerial) job with the Giants. Here are the magic numbers and remaining schedules for teams contending for playoff spots.
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