The San Francisco Giants and the LA Dodgers play the middle contest of a 3-game series at Dodger Stadium Saturday.

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The Giants were 1-5 at Dodger Stadium last season and lost nine of 13 in the season series to their archrivals.

Logan Webb tossed seven innings of two-hit ball, Casey Schmitt hit his first career grand slam off Yoshinobu Yamamoto and the San Francisco Giants defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-2 on Friday night in the series opener between the NL West’s top two teams.

Starting Friday night, the Giants will start a three-game set with the Dodgers, with first place in the National League West on the line. Yes, we’re not even halfway through the baseball season — have you even put in an All-Star ballot yet? — but did anyone expect the Giants to be in such a position last October? What about in January?

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Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s command was poor, and the strike zone was bad in the 6-2 loss to Logan Webb and the Giants Friday night at Dodger Stadium.