Dodgers reach 100 wins and learn potential NLDS playoff opponents

SAN FRANCISCO –– The game had no impact on the standings.No playoff implications.

No real significance other than the fact that it fell on the final day of the regular-season schedule.Yet, the Dodgers and Giants still needed to find a winner on Sunday.Thus, with Game 162 tied after nine innings, they played on into the 10th.Only then, in their final tune-up before the start of the postseason, did the Dodgers properly punctuate their campaign, exploding for four runs in the top of the 10th –– including three on a home run from Andy Pages –– to secure a season finale 5-1 win at Oracle Park.The victory did come with some meaning for the Dodgers, giving them a 100-win season for the first time in three years. Hundred-win seasons aren’t as rare for the franchise as they used to be, with the Dodgers having recently accomplished it in 2017, 2019 and three-straight years from 2021-2023.Still, it was an unexpected feat from this year’s team, which had to close on an 18-5 run in recent weeks to get back to a triple-digit win total.“It doesn’t change anything as far as kind of our standing going forward in the postseason, but it’s still a nice feather in the cap to win 100 games,” said manager Dave Roberts, who also joined Bobby Cox and Joe McCarthy as the only managers in MLB history with six 100-win seasons.“There’s a lot of things that we had to go through this year, and we just continue to remain steadfast and play on.And so, yeah, that’s something to be proud of.”The bigger news Sunday was what happened in Philadelphia.After flirting with what would have been a stunning late-September collapse this week, the Phillies managed to survive Game 162 and beat the Tampa Bay Rays 7-3, clinching the National League’s final wild-card spot to set up a wild-card series against the Atlanta Braves this week.Why that matters to the Dodgers: The winner of that Braves-Phillies series will be the team’s opponent in next week’s best-of-five NL Divisi...