“The arms you’re facing from that team are as good as it gets, top to bottom,” Buster Posey, the Giants’ stalwart catcher, said in the dugout after Game 5. “I felt like we did a pretty good job of not chasing too much; if you chase on those types of arms, they’re really going to expose you. But they’re so good that even if you don’t, there’s a chance they’re going to still hold you down.”
Posey, 34, had perhaps his best season since 2014, the last year the Giants won the World Series. The Giants faced 11 different teams in Posey’s prior playoff runs, Atlanta and Philadelphia and St. Louis and the rest. But the Dodgers are different up here, and Posey said he always wanted a shot at them. All of the Giants did, and now they want a rematch.
“This won’t be the last time we play them in the playoffs,” said Logan Webb, the team’s breakout pitching star. He was seated at an interview table with Darin Ruf, an outfielder the Giants signed from the South Korean league who had homered for their only run.
“We don’t plan on taking any steps backwards, and I know they don’t,” Ruf said. “So it will hopefully be fun for years to come.”