Thank the wildcard for this historic Giants/Dodgers series

[Auggie]

This is the first Giants-Dodgers postseason series since 1889 when the Giants played in New York and the Dodgers were in Brooklyn (and known as the Bridegrooms).

Teams twice met in a best-of-three tiebreaker: 1951 — Bobby Thomson’s Shot Heard ’Round the World — and 1962, though those games were considered part of the regular season. The Giants won both of those series.

They've been in the same division throughout the modern era, so there's no way they'd face each other in postseason.

Until the wildcard.