Sweep of Giants jumpstarted Dodgers’ postseason push
The Dodgers have nice momentum heading into the National League Championship Series, and the Giants can say they played a role.
Fresh off a Division Series smackdown of the Braves, the Dodgers have won seven of eight while outscoring opponents 53-17, and it all started two Friday nights ago when Madison Bumgarner was out-pitched by Hyun-Jin Ryu.
The Dodgers arrived in San Francisco to conclude their regular season after losing consecutive games in Arizona, and one more loss, in retrospect, would have turned them into a wild-card team. But the Dodgers won the opener and scored 25 times Saturday and Sunday to complete a sweep and force a one-game tiebreaker with the Rockies for the division title, which the Dodgers won.