Final: Dodgers 8 – Giants 0 (box)
The fat lady sings. Indeed, in all her portly glory, the woman has been waiting in the wings of a long, arduous season, but now — with one fell swoop from Clayton Kershaw — she is free to unleash the furious melody of a lost season in San Francisco. While the Giants kept their playoff pulse alive for far longer than their glut of injuries should have allowed, when push came to shove, they simply proved no match for the greatest pitcher of his generation. It was a long climb for the Dodgers this season, but they finally crested the mountain in the West on Tuesday, gloriously riding on the back of the reigning NL MVP and Cy Young award winner … just as it should have been.