The Giants are looking to finish the unofficial first half of the season on a high note as Robbie Ray takes on Yoshinobu Yamamoto. San Francisco won Friday night’s series opener, staving off a comeback attempt by the Dodgers, then lost Saturday as Shohei Ohtani made his pitching debut in the rivalry.

The chase for the National League West crown has been one of the more tightly contested divisional races so far this season, with both the San Francisco Giants

Michael Conforto had three hits and scored twice, Shohei Ohtani took another encouraging step back on the mound in his recovery from elbow surgery and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Francisco Giants 2-1 to end a seven-game losing streak.

Freeman has hit under .200 since the start of June with a higher strikeout rate than his career norm, but Roberts says Freeman is “too good of a hitter” not to come out of it.

In a moment where the San Francisco Giants television broadcast was celebrating his stellar efforts against the hated Dodgers, Mike Krukow used that moment to call on the Hall of Fame to put a Dodger in the Hall of Fame.

Willy Adames homered in the second inning and hit a two-run triple in San Francisco’s five-run fifth to back Logan Webb’s win, and the Giants sent the rival Los Angeles Dodgers to their seventh straight loss with an 8-7 victory.

It marked the 65th home run into the water by an opponent in Oracle Park’s 25-year history and 171st in all — and 35 of those belong to home run king Barry Bonds.

The Dodgers, so accustomed to sawing through their regular-season schedule, find themselves in an unusual spot: tied with the Pittsburgh Pirates for the longest losing streak in all the majors, at six.