The San Francisco Giants' season abruptly ended Thursday night after a gut-wrenching 2-1 loss against their bitter rivals, the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The game cemented its place in baseball lore as perhaps the greatest game in the history of the over 100-year rivalry between the Giants and the Dodgers, according to Steve Bitker, former KCBS Radio Sports Anchor of more than 20 years.
Despite the heartbreaking defeat, the Giants had a historic and surreal season, winning a franchise record 107 games while fielding a roster without players whom Bitker described as "mega-superstar names."
"This makes it all the more incredible," Bitker told "Bay Current" on Friday. "If you look dating back to the over-under on win total, this is the biggest separation we have ever seen. The Dodgers have the marquee names, if you ask any baseball expert, and combine the Giant and Dodger rosters, you'd have the Dodgers in almost every position."
Travis Zachary, a longtime Dodgers fan who attended Thursday's winner-take all game, spoke to "Bay Current" outside Oracle Park in the moments after the game and said he never even thought the Giants would make it to this point.
"This was a year nobody expected them to have," Zachary noted. "It was supposed to be the Dodgers and Padres."
After the emotional, climactic playoff series, the first ever between the Giants and Dodgers, the rivalry between the two California nemeses will only deepen. "Talking to all my Giants friends, the next handful of years, this rivalry is going to be much more intense," he said.
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