This is the 137th season the Dodgers and Giants have played against one another in the National League. The first 69 of those years came in New York when they played in Brooklyn and Manhattan, with Tuesday night starting their 68th season representing Los Angeles and San Francisco.

This three-game series is a tiebreaker of sorts, because in all of those regular season games against one another, the Dodgers have beaten the Giants 1,288 times and the Giants have beaten the Dodgers 1,288 times.

It took a while for the Dodgers to get back to even, as the Giants were a good team much earlier than the Dodgers, and owned the rivalry. In January 1934, Giants manager Bill Terry famously said of the sixth-place Dodgers, “Is Brooklyn still in the league?”

The Dodgers last season beat the Giants nine of out 13 times, and in their penultimate matchup finally overtook the all-time series lead between the two teams, before San Francisco won the final matchup to leave them tied heading into this season. Sarah Langs at MLBcom pointed out that the previous time the Dodgers led their all-time rivalry against the Giants came in the 19th century:

Yoshinobu Yamamoto gets the ball for the Dodgers on Tuesday night in the attempt for win number 1,289, while right-hander Landen Roupp starts for San Francisco.