Every ingredient was there for this to be a signature win.
Luis Matos and Heliot Ramos, a dynamic duo of Replacement Giants, drove in all four runs.
Mike Yastrzemski made the best catch of the year to save a run.
Jordan Hicks danced through a million 3-2 counts to last five innings.
But in the end, you felt difference between a team vying for the third wild card and another vying for 100 wins.
For the Giants, Matos' three-run homer off Yoshinobu Yamamoto felt like a climactic moment. A Cody Ross vs. Roy Halladay kind of moment, if one can exist in mid-May.
For the Dodgers, well, it was just a 3-1 deficit in the second inning. And it was only a matter of time.
Up next: It’ll be Keaton Winn (3-5, 5.63 ERA) against Gavin Stone (3-1, 3.55 ERA), with the Giants still looking for their first win of the year against L.A. First pitch at 6:45 p.m.