The San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers are about to embark on a two-game series. There sure have been a lot of two-game series this year.
If you think the Giants and Dodgers playing a two-game series is rare, well ... come collect your prize. It’s the first time they’ve played a two-game series (excepting weather reasons) since May 18-19, 2011.
Do you remember what you were doing on May 18 and 19 of 2011? I don’t, because I wasn’t even alive yet.
But Google tells me that the Giants won the first game of that series when a guy named Matt Cain outdueled a dude named Clayton Kershaw, and the Giants used three pitchers out of the bullpen: Javier López, Sergio Romo, and Brian Wilson.