The Dodgers are back home to face the Reds on Monday night at Dodger Stadium, the start of a six-game homestand.
The Dodgers won two of three games in Cincinnati in their first meeting this year. The lone loss was hung on Emmet Sheehan, who started Monday’s series opener in Los Angeles. On July 30 against the Reds, Shohei Ohtani started on the mound, and Sheehan later followed with 3 2/3 innings of his own, into the eighth inning. He didn’t allow a hit until two outs into his fourth inning of work, and said hit was nearly caught over the wall by soon-to-be-traded James Outman in center field. Instead, it dropped for a two-run triple to give the Reds the lead and eventual win.
Hunter Greene starts for the Reds. After missing two months with a right groin strain, the right-hander has 18 strikeouts against three walks with three runs allowed in 12 1/3 innings.