The Mets appealed to both sets of fans by adopting colors from each team — orange from the Giants and blue from the Dodgers, and eventually moved into a new stadium in Queens, a borough which had not previously hosted Major League Baseball.

Given that the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco had long harbored animosity against one another in the economic, cultural, and political arenas, the teams' new homes in California were fertile ground for the rivalry's transplantation.

In the early 1900s, the rivalry was heightened by a long-standing personal feud (originally a business difference) between Charles Ebbets, owner of the Dodgers, and John McGraw, manager of the Giants.

However, the Giants ignited a rally capped off with a dramatic game-winning home run by Bobby Thomson, a play known as the Shot Heard 'Round the World.

After considering Minneapolis, Minnesota and St. Petersburg, Florida as potential locations, O'Malley convinced Stoneman to keep the rivalry alive and move the team to San Francisco.

West Coast baseball officially began on Opening Day in 1958 at Seals Stadium in San Francisco, with the Giants defeating the visiting Dodgers 8–0.

The Dodgers returned the favor in 1993, as two Mike Piazza home runs and a dominant complete-game performance by Kevin Gross resulted in a 12–1 win on the final day of the season that kept the 103-win Giants out of the playoffs.

For the Giants to clinch the 8th seed, they needed a win against the San Diego Padres and both a Brewers and Phillies loss, which would've set up a matchup against the Dodgers in the Wild Card Series.

With both teams' seasons on the line, now headed back to San Francisco tied at 2 games apiece, the Giants sent out Logan Webb to try and clinch the series.

The game once again remain tied until the top of the 9th when Cody Bellinger drove in Justin Turner to give the Dodgers a 2–1 lead off of Camilo Doval.

Crawford was the first batter retired, but an error by Justin Turner on a batted ball from Kris Bryant would give the Giants life in the inning.

Scherzer struck out LaMonte Wade and Wilmer Flores to give the Dodgers the series win and a trip to the NLCS against the Atlanta Braves.

This view is supported by the consistently solid attendance figures for Giants-Dodgers games at both home fields, and increased media coverage as well.

LA fans were also known to chant "Maddy Sucks" to taunt former pitcher Madison Bumgarner, even after he signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2019.

[31] In San Francisco, Giants fans will chant "Beat L.A." and the stadium used to have their screens read "Duck the Fodgers" when they were in town.

[32] During the final rounds of the 2013 World Baseball Classic, held at San Francisco's AT&T Park, Dodgers infielder Hanley Ramírez, competing for his home country, the Dominican Republic, was consistently booed at every appearance and whenever his name was mentioned on the public-address system.

In 2014, the rivalry intensified when Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig flipped his bat when hitting a home run off of Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner.

[39] On April 12, 2023, after Muncy hit two home runs in a 10–5 Dodger victory at Oracle Park, he stated in a post-game interview that "I don't like this place.

"[40] At Candlestick Park on August 22, 1965, Giants pitcher Juan Marichal was involved in a major altercation with Dodgers catcher John Roseboro.

[44] Maury Wills led off the game with a bunt single off Marichal and, eventually scored a run when Ron Fairly hit a double.

[46] Marichal's act angered the Dodgers sitting in the dugout and home plate umpire Shag Crawford then warned both teams that any further retaliations would not be tolerated.

[44] He explained that, due to the benches being warned, he did not want to risk Koufax getting ejected or suspended in the middle of a pennant race and decided to take matters into his own hands.

After years of bitterness, Roseboro and Marichal became close friends in the 1980s, getting together occasionally at Old-Timers games, golf tournaments, and charity events.

[50] Roseboro also personally appealed to the Baseball Writers' Association of America not to hold the incident against Marichal after it passed him over for election to the Hall of Fame two years in a row.

[51] When Roseboro died in 2002, Marichal served as an honorary pallbearer and told the gathered, "Johnny's forgiving me was one of the best things that happened in my life.

[61] On May 24, 2011, Stow's family filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Dodgers for $37.5 million for his lifetime care and compensation of lost earnings.

[67] In April 2013, Stow's insurance company stopped paying for his full-time care in a residential rehabilitation facility and he moved into his parents' home in Capitola, California.

[71] On September 25, 2013, after a Dodgers-Giants night game in San Francisco, a man, claiming self-defense, stabbed a Dodgers fan to death six blocks from AT&T Park.

[72] The San Francisco medical examiner's office identified the deceased man as Jonathan Denver, 24, of Fort Bragg, California.

[76] On March 12, 2014, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón said that his office could not prove that Michael Montgomery did not act in self-defense when he stabbed Denver.