The Dodgers closed the regular season the way they’ve spent so much of it: with another win over the Giants, another milestone, and another reminder of how firmly they’ve owned this matchup.
Los Angeles beat San Francisco 5-1 in extra innings to finish with 100 victories for the year, complete a sweep, and run its record against the Giants to 9-4 in 2026. The Dodgers also stretched their winning streak against San Francisco to eight straight and improved to 49-22 against the Giants since 2022. They’ve taken the season series from San Francisco for five straight years now.
That win total put the Dodgers back at 100 for the first time since 2023 and for the fifth time in the last seven full seasons. It also gave Dave Roberts a place in a very small club.
With this latest 100-win season, Roberts has now guided a team to at least 100 victories six times in his career - in 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2026 - tying Hall of Famers Bobby Cox and Joe McCarthy for the most such seasons by a manager in MLB history. Under Roberts, the Dodgers have reached at least 90 wins every season except the shortened 2020 campaign, and he now sits at 1044-637 in Los Angeles.
The game itself was a grind from the start. Both teams went with bullpen games, and the offenses spent most of the night searching for something clean.
San Francisco struck first in the second inning after a pair of singles and a stolen base moved a runner into scoring position. Both hits came off Jack Dreyer, who was working his second inning after opening the game.
Dreyer, Justin Wrobleski and Bobby Miller each handled two innings. Roki Sasaki, Edwin Díaz and Alex Vesia each threw one, and Evan Phillips took the 10th to finish it off.
The Dodgers finally got even in the fourth. Kyle Tucker reached on an error to start the inning, Max Muncy doubled him into scoring position, and Andy Pages brought Tucker home with a sacrifice fly.
From there, Los Angeles kept coming up empty. The Dodgers went 0-for-8 with runners in scoring position and stranded nine runners over the first nine innings.
Then extra innings arrived, and the Dodgers broke through. Alex Call lined a two-out double to score the ghost runner and put Los Angeles ahead 2-1.
After that, the game got loose. Muncy was intentionally walked, Pages followed with a home run, and the Dodgers pushed the lead to 5-1.
The result also brought clarity to the NLDS picture. While the Dodgers were still in the eighth inning, the Phillies clinched a postseason berth by beating the Tampa Bay Rays, which eliminated the Arizona Diamondbacks from contention and locked in the final playoff spot. Philadelphia will now face the Atlanta Braves in the Wild Card round starting Tuesday, and the winner of that series will meet the Dodgers in the National League Division Series, which begins Saturday, Oct. 3 at Dodger Stadium.
On the other side of the bracket, the winner of the San Diego Padres-Chicago Cubs Wild Card series will advance to face the Milwaukee Brewers.
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