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?

The Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants enter the weekend's series within one game of each other atop the loaded NL West.

Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts addressed 'unrest' in LA a week after protests began in response to immigration raids.

Dodgers rivalry isn’t compelling enough any old time, this weekend the teams play each other for the first time this season — in mid-June, no less — and they’re neck-and-neck atop the NL West. Add in the fact that Los Angeles is the center of national news the past week after ICE raids,