LOS ANGELES — In August, with the San Francisco Giants setting a torrid pace atop the NL West and the Los Angeles Dodgers in frantic pursuit, two longtime friends made a wager on the outcome of the epic division race.
Retired Giants manager Bruce Bochy backed his former club. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts took his team.
“I lost dinner and a nice bottle of Bordeaux,” Roberts said Wednesday. “Knowing him, it's going to be some type of first growth [wine], so it's not going to be cheap.”
Roberts can go double or nothing with Bochy after an unlikely hero powered the Dodgers past the St.