The San Francisco Giants dropped the rubber match against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday with a 5-4 loss — a game that felt a bit peripheral in the wake of splashy Rafael Devers trade.
The news took the clubhouse by surprise just as it did the rest of the baseball world. Willy Adames, interviewed on-field by ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball broadcasters, commented that the team found out just 15 minutes before they took the field. Projected starter turned trade-piece, Kyle Harrison, had already done his pregame bullpen session before he was ushered back into the clubhouse, out of his orange-and-black duds and rushed to LAX.