LOS ANGELES — They say an NBA playoff series doesn’t truly get interesting until a team wins a game on the road. Well, the 2015 version of the Giants-Dodgers rivalry is still looking for that twist.
After sweeping the Dodgers at AT&T Park last week, the Giants fell 8-3 in the first of three games at Dodger Stadium. Tim Lincecum gave up four runs in four innings and the Giants managed just about nothing against a revamped Dodgers bullpen that once was full of washed-up former closers and now is overflowing with hard-throwing young right-handers.
It was sort of weird that this one was even close into the late innings.