SAN FRANCISCO – At the end of a 162-game regular season during which they faced each other 19 times, the San Francisco Giants had won 107 games, the best in baseball and most in franchise history. The Los Angeles Dodgers had won 106 games, the second best in baseball and the same as they had in 2019 when the Washington Nationals upset them in the NLDS en route to a championship.
In the second half, both teams had won 50 games (the Giants played and lost two more than the Dodgers did).