The Giants dropped 13 of their final 14 games against the Dodgers while losing to their rivals an SF-era record 15 times this season.
SAN FRANCISCO — The rain came, the Giants rallied, but nothing could delay the inevitable.
In the 139-year history of the Giants, dating back to the club’s inception in New York, they have finished only one other season — 1899, when they went 2-10 — with a worse winning percentage against the Dodgers than their 4-15 record this year. Their 15 losses to LA also set a San Francisco-era record, and the 32.5 games separating the two clubs would represent the Giants’ third-furthest finish from first place since moving here in 1958.
Limited to five runs on 13 hits over the course of the three-game series, the Giants at least showed life in the eighth, tying the game on a ground-rule double by J.D. Davis but left the bases loaded for the second time of the night. Davis’ ball bouncing over the wall prevented Thairo Estrada from scoring the go-ahead run from first base, the same fate that happened on Wilmer Flores’ ground-rule double in the fourth, when the Giants also left ’em loaded.
When the wind was blowing more and the rain coming down harder as the game started, Los Angeles leadoff man Mookie Betts’ fly ball on the first pitch of the game was blown in 58 feet. Some three hours earlier, at about 5:10 p.m., Justin Turner doubled home Freddie Freeman for the Dodgers’ first run. At 5:40, Cobb retired the final out of the fourth inning. It wasn’t particularly strenuous, as you might expect from a 30-minute inning, but rather interrupted by one of the intermittent downpours over Oracle Park on Sunday.
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