In the ALCS and NLCS stretch, Giants fans face a familiar question: who should they cheer for next?

MLB’s postseason keeps moving on Monday and Tuesday, with the NLCS reaching Game 2 and the ALCS moving through Games 1 and 2. In that setting, San Francisco Giants fans are being asked a question they have faced repeatedly across October: if your team is not the one on the field tonight, who should you hope for anyway?

In a fan-oriented piece published Sunday on Yahoo Sports, the focus is specifically on which teams Giants supporters are likely rooting for during NLCS Game 2 and ALCS Games 1-2, aside from the Brewers. The article is positioned less as a matchup preview and more as a rooting guide, reflecting how fan bases manage October uncertainty when their own club is already out.

That “root for” mindset is a practical one in baseball. Even when the postseason field is fixed, the order of advancement, the matchup that follows, and the paths different clubs took to get there can influence what fans imagine next for their organizations, whether that is the style of baseball a team might emulate, the caliber of pitching likely to surface, or the kind of bullpen usage that tends to linger into later rounds.

For Giants fans in particular, the premise contains an added layer of Bay Area baseball. The article explicitly carves out the Brewers from the general question, implying that Brewers-related rooting is already a foregone conclusion for a portion of the fan base, while the remaining choice is about how to respond to the rest of the league’s championship picture.

The underlying sports logic is straightforward: if you assume the postseason bracket will eventually deliver a World Series opponent, then every “cheer decision” becomes a bet on future matchups and momentum. Fans often gravitate toward the team they believe has the least troublesome path for their preferred outcome, or the club whose strengths are seen as less likely to overwhelm the Brewers, a stated focal point in the Yahoo guide.

Still, without additional published details in the information provided here, it is not possible to responsibly spell out which specific teams the guide endorses for each game. What can be stated is the intent and timing: the guide is designed to help Giants fans decide how to watch NLCS Game 2 and ALCS Games 1-2, with Brewers rooting treated separately.

What to watch next is how those rooting choices align with how teams actually look early in a series. Early innings often reveal whether a club’s apparent advantages are real, and bullpen plans in the first couple games can shape everything that follows. As October moves deeper, fan rooting logic tends to either confirm itself quickly or get upended within a day or two, which is part of what makes the first segment of both the ALCS and NLCS so revealing.