Corey Seager

The Farhan Zaidi era has been largely defined by showing restraint on the free agency market, electing to find cheap, overlooked options as they wait for their veterans to come off the books.

Following a pair of controversial middle-inning calls in the Giants’ 7-2 loss at Oracle Park, Samardzija did his best to restrain himself, but couldn’t fully.

The Giants left 11 runners on base and went just 1-of-11 with runners in scoring position, as a winnable game against the Dodgers got away.

Seager will not start the NLCS on the Dodgers 25-man roster, according to the roster posted by the team Saturday.

For the better part of a beautiful Saturday afternoon at a sun-splashed Dodger Stadium, Giants’ left-hander Ty Blach was very good. But against the Los Angeles Dodgers, if you’re not excellent, don’t expect to go home a winner.

On Friday evening at Dodger Stadium, the Giants’ played their foes from Southern California evenly for much of the night, and yet, when the final out was recorded, San Francisco found itself on the wrong side of an equation that hasn’t added up in their favor much this season.

When left-hander Alex Wood threw the first pitch of the game on Friday, the Dodgers held a 31.5 game lead in the National League West over the Giants, the largest gap between the two teams since 1985 and the largest difference this early in a season since 1902. At that time, Teddy Roosevelt was President, the Model T hadn’t been invented and both franchises would call New York home for another half-century.

Author Molly Knight joins Murph & Mac to discuss the Dodgers’ success without Clayton Kershaw and Yasiel Puig’s downfall.