San Francisco Giants vs Los Angeles Dodgers.
Stadium: Oracle Park (San Francisco).
Game 5. The score in the series is 2-2.
At Oracle Park in San Francisco, the local Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers will decide the fate of a trip to the National League finals. Who will be stronger and clinch the right to fight for a spot in the World Series with Atlanta? There are several betting options at once.
San Francisco have two firsts in the series
For the Giants, the series with the Dodgers have been unstable. In the first match, Gabe Kapler’s team confidently defeated the tired after a wild-card game, the Dodgers 4-0. However, in the second game, they failed to extend their lead, losing 2-9. Then, after the series moved to LA in the third game, San Francisco pulled out a hard-fought 1-0 win. But in the fourth game, they fell again, 2-7. The Giants play at home and should have an advantage. But it’s too easy for the Dodgers to win when they need to.
Logan Webb is tasked with getting a shot at the conference finals. The 24-year-old player had a perfect first game of the series, pitching 7.2 innings, striking out ten, and allowing no runs. What’s more, Webb made three starts against the Dodgers in the regular season, and San Francisco eventually won all three games.
The Dodgers could have closed out the series already
Dave Roberts’ team could not win the first game of the series against the Giants, as the Dodgers had a very tough match a day earlier in the wild-card round against St. Louis. But at the end of the second game at Oracle Park, there wasn’t much doubt about LA’s superiority. 1-1, and it seemed that the reigning champion would have no trouble bringing the game to a logical conclusion on their home field. But San Fran held on to a minimal advantage in the third game and regained the home-field advantage. This was the key game in the series so far. The Giants’ heroic 1-0 win essentially wiped out the Dodgers’ two resounding victories. The fifth game was a special story, but the background had nothing to do with it.
The main game of the season on the pitching mound is entrusted to Julio Urias to open. The 25-year-old Mexican pitched in the second game of the series, where his team secured a solid 9-2 victory, and the pitcher himself allowed only one run in 5 innings.
Expert Betting Tips
It is clear how high the cost of a mistake is in the decisive game of a playoff series. The cost is even higher here, considering that the Giants and Dodgers, arguably the most important rivals in world sport, are meeting. The teams will act as carefully as possible, mastering their every move. And the outcome, as in game three of the series, may well be decided by a single mistake.
Betting options:
- Total Under 7 for 2.10;
- First 5 innings - Total Under 3.5 for 1.83;
- Individual Total 1 Under 3.5 for 1.62.