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San Francisco Giants<\/a> (16-24, fourth in the NL West) vs. Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> (24-16, second in the NL West)<\/p>\n

Los Angeles; Monday, 10:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Giants: Trevor McDonald<\/a> (1-0, 1.29 ERA, 0.29 WHIP, eight strikeouts); Dodgers: Roki Sasaki<\/a> (1-3, 5.97 ERA, 1.67 WHIP, 26 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Dodgers -182, Giants +151; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Dodgers open a four-game series at home against the San Francisco Giants on Monday.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has a 24-16 record overall and a 13-8 record at home. The Dodgers have gone 19-4 in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n

San Francisco has a 16-24 record overall and a 6-12 record in road games. The Giants have the seventh-ranked team batting average in the NL at .242.<\/p>\n

Monday’s game is the fourth time these teams meet this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Andy Pages<\/a> has a .333 batting average to lead the Dodgers, and has eight doubles and nine home runs. Freddie Freeman<\/a> is 10 for 39 with a home run and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Luis Arraez<\/a> has seven doubles and two triples while hitting .310 for the Giants. Rafael Devers<\/a> is 11 for 33 with four doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Dodgers: 4-6, .236 batting average, 3.52 ERA, outscored opponents by two runs<\/p>\n

Giants: 3-7, .235 batting average, 4.44 ERA, outscored by 23 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Dodgers: Edwin Diaz: 60-Day IL (elbow), Brock Stewart<\/a>: 15-Day IL (foot), Tommy Edman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ankle), Tyler Glasnow: 15-Day IL (back), Mookie Betts<\/a>: 10-Day IL (back), Brusdar Graterol: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Ben Casparius<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Landon Knack<\/a>: 60-Day IL (undisclosed), Jake Cousins<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Gavin Stone<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Kike Hernandez: 60-Day IL (elbow), Bobby Miller<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Evan Phillips<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Giants: Logan Webb: 15-Day IL (knee), Erik Miller<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Jared Oliva<\/a>: 60-Day IL (wrist), Harrison Bader<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Daniel Susac: 10-Day IL (elbow), Jose Butto: 60-Day IL (arm), Reiver Sanmartin: 60-Day IL (hip), Hayden Birdsong: 60-Day IL (forearm), Jason Foley<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Randy Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Rowan Wick<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco Giants (16-24, fourth in the NL West) vs. Los Angeles Dodgers (24-16, second in the NL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2408],"tags":[1384,5,1134,1522,6440,1090,2271,75686,815,1523,162,365,2283,59032,540,1539,57,85,19,4,1526,863,12859,110,70335,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342,880,48585],"class_list":{"0":"post-696050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-giants","8":"tag-andy-pages","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-ben-casparius","11":"tag-bobby-miller","12":"tag-brock-stewart","13":"tag-erik-miller","14":"tag-evan-phillips","15":"tag-event_preview","16":"tag-freddie-freeman","17":"tag-gavin-stone","18":"tag-giants","19":"tag-harrison-bader","20":"tag-jake-cousins","21":"tag-jared-oliva","22":"tag-jason-foley","23":"tag-landon-knack","24":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","25":"tag-luis-arraez","26":"tag-major-league-baseball","27":"tag-mlb","28":"tag-mookie-betts","29":"tag-rafael-devers","30":"tag-randy-rodriguez","31":"tag-roki-sasaki","32":"tag-rowan-wick","33":"tag-san-francisco","34":"tag-san-francisco-giants","35":"tag-sanfrancisco","36":"tag-sanfranciscogiants","37":"tag-sf","38":"tag-sf-giants","39":"tag-sfgiants","40":"tag-tommy-edman","41":"tag-trevor-mcdonald"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}