Dodgers vs. Giants: When, how to watch this historic NL Division Series

For the archetypal clip successful their storied bicoastal history, the Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants are squaring disconnected successful the postseason.

The rivals had the 2 champion records successful shot this season, and they volition statesman a best-of-five National League Division Series connected Friday nighttime astatine Oracle Park successful San Francisco.

The Dodgers, who finished 1 crippled down their rivals successful the NL West during the regular season, made this matchup a world erstwhile they defeated the St. Louis Cardinals successful the NL wild-card crippled connected Wednesday nighttime astatine Dodger Stadium, winning 3-1 connected Chris Taylor’s walk-off location run.

Outfielder Mookie Betts, a seasoned of the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry during his six seasons successful Boston, is acceptable to disregard each the wins his Dodgers (106) and the Giants (107) piled up connected the mode to a frenetic regular-season finish.

“All the 106 games are retired the model now. It didn’t assistance america triumph the division, truthful it’s truly irrelevant,” Betts said aft Wednesday’s win. “We’re successful the spot we are now. We’ve got to play the manus we’re dealt. … Obviously, usage what you learned successful 106 wins. You conscionable effort and use it to now. Other than that, those 106 are irrelevant.”

The rivalry has ne'er lacked for intensity, but it figures to find a caller level implicit the adjacent week.

“This bid is going to beryllium a madhouse astatine some places,” said Giants 3rd baseman Evan Longoria, whose squad won 10 of the 19 regular-season meetings and ended the Dodgers’ tally of 8 consecutive part titles.

“There’s a batch of familiarity, which makes it fun, adjacent much challenging,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “It’s going to beryllium a fantastic series.”

There are plentifulness of affable relationships betwixt the teams, from the players to the coaching staffs to the beforehand offices, but that apt conscionable adds to the information for some sides.

“We’re trying to triumph a bid and they’re successful our way,” Roberts said.

WHEN TO WATCH

Here’s the bid docket (all times PT):

Game 1: astatine San Francisco, Friday, 6:37 p.m.

Game 2: astatine San Francisco, Saturday, 6:07 p.m.

Game 3: astatine Dodger Stadium, Monday, 6:37 p.m.

x-Game 4: astatine Dodger Stadium, Tuesday, 6:07 p.m.

x-Game 5: astatine San Francisco, Thursday, 6:07 p.m.

x- if indispensable

HOW TO WATCH/LISTEN

You tin ticker the games unrecorded connected TBS with their broadcast squad of Brian Anderson, Ron Darling and Lauren Shehadi. You tin besides spot the games via the TBS app oregon website, Hulu with Live TV, Sling TV oregon YouTube TV.

The games tin beryllium heard successful the L.A. country connected KLAC (570 AM) and KTNQ (1020 AM, Spanish)

SportsNet LA volition bash pre- and post-game shows, but the Dodgers’ web volition not transportation the games live.

DO YOUR HOMEWORK

The SoCal News Group unit has been covering the Dodgers each play long, and determination is plentifulness of contented disposable to get you up to velocity connected these teams, how they lucifer up, immoderate of the memorable moments successful the West Coast Era of the rivalry and more. Dive successful here.