By Jeremy Harness

Look at it this way: At least the Giants have a chance to clinch a playoff spot at home.

That’s because you can forget about the Giants somehow coming back to win the National League West over the highly-paid, dysfunctional Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers ran away from the Giants on Wednesday, using a big sixth and eighth inning to lock up the division crown, 9-1, at Dodger Stadium.

There was one ironic twist to Wednesday’s game. Former Giants closer Brian Wilson, who put the finishing touches on the 2010 World Series, was on the mound for the final out for the Dodgers to close out the division race.

Tim Hudson was really up against it, as he faced National League MVP candidate Clayton Kershaw. Even though Hudson hung tough for five innings and even held a 1-0 lead into the fifth inning, but Kershaw did not give up a single run the rest of the way while the Dodgers blew the game open.

The Dodgers tied the game at 1-1 after Carl Crawford was hit by a pitch, and then Kershaw hit one against the infield – and outfield – shift that ended up going all the way to the wall and scored Crawford.

In the sixth, Yasiel Puig hit an opposite-field solo homer, and that they added three more runs in that inning to pretty much seal the deal, even though the Dodgers added four more runs in the eighth, thanks to the Giants’ relievers not being able to locate home plate at all.

“He threw great,” Bochy said of Hudson. “He kept us there, gave us a chance. He did a great job.

“You’ve got to play perfect ball to beat (Kershaw),” he continued. “He’s so tough. They played great. It’s a great year for them.”

This comes at a time when the Giants may not be entirely focused on baseball. On Monday, as the Giants and Dodgers were getting ready to start this three-game series, it was reported by CSN Bay Area beat writer Andrew Baggarly that reliever Sergio Romo and coach Shawon Dunston got into a heated argument, which caused manager Bruce Bochy to intervene.

From there, it was reported the Giants, as a team, decided that they were going to boycott Baggarly. In fact, as Bochy was getting ready to address the media during his pre-game interview session Tuesday, outfielder Angel Pagan swooped in and cut the session short as Baggarly showed up.

Pagan, meanwhile, has the time to be concerned with what is reported about the team, since he has since been shut down for the rest of the season with a back injury that never really went away during the course of the year.

The Giants better turn it around quickly. Their magic number is only one in order to clinch a playoff spot, and they have the San Diego Padres coming into AT&T Park for a three-game series that wraps up the regular season. However, this is the same Padres team that swept the Giants right out of Petco Park last weekend.