{"id":703876,"date":"2026-05-20T09:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/703876\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:57:17","slug":"padres-and-dodgers-meet-winner-secures-3-game-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/703876\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres and Dodgers meet, winner secures 3-game series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> (30-19, first in the NL West) vs. San Diego Padres<\/a> (29-19, second in the NL West)<\/p>\n

San Diego; Wednesday, 8:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Dodgers: Shohei Ohtani<\/a> (3-2, 0.82 ERA, 0.82 WHIP, 50 strikeouts); Padres: Randy Vasquez<\/a> (5-1, 2.68 ERA, 1.11 WHIP, 45 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Dodgers -177, Padres +148; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Dodgers meet on Wednesday with the winner claiming the three-game series.<\/p>\n

San Diego is 29-19 overall and 14-11 in home games. The Padres have the fifth-ranked team ERA in the NL at 3.93.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has gone 15-9 in road games and 30-19 overall. Dodgers hitters have a collective .429 slugging percentage to rank third in MLB<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The matchup Wednesday is the third time these teams meet this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Gavin Sheets<\/a> leads the Padres with nine home runs while slugging .538. Miguel Andujar<\/a> is 11 for 39 with three home runs and seven RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Ohtani has 11 doubles, a triple, seven home runs and 25 RBIs while hitting .272 for the Dodgers. Teoscar Hernandez<\/a> is 13 for 37 with four doubles and a home run over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Padres: 7-3, .203 batting average, 2.93 ERA, outscored opponents by seven runs<\/p>\n

Dodgers: 6-4, .226 batting average, 3.24 ERA, outscored opponents by 20 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Padres: Matt Waldron<\/a>: 15-Day IL (arm), German Marquez: 15-Day IL (forearm), Jake Cronenworth<\/a>: 7-Day IL (concussion), Joe Musgrove: 60-Day IL (elbow), Luis Campusano<\/a>: 10-Day IL (toe), Jhony Brito: 60-Day IL (elbow), Bryan Hoeing: 60-Day IL (elbow), Nick Pivetta: 15-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Dodgers: Ben Casparius<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jack Dreyer<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Brusdar Graterol: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Blake Snell<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Edwin Diaz<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Brock Stewart<\/a>: 15-Day IL (foot), Tommy Edman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ankle), Tyler Glasnow: 15-Day IL (back), 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

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Dodgers (30-19, first in the NL West) vs. San Diego Padres (29-19, second in the NL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2406],"tags":[5,1134,114,1522,6440,39,1087,2271,75686,1530,1523,2493,2283,872,1165,4332,4333,1539,774,57,3224,4331,12913,19,2282,4808,4,7940,18,468,1528,880],"class_list":["post-703876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-baseball","tag-ben-casparius","tag-blake-snell","tag-bobby-miller","tag-brock-stewart","tag-dodgers","tag-edwin-diaz","tag-evan-phillips","tag-event_preview","tag-gavin-sheets","tag-gavin-stone","tag-jack-dreyer","tag-jake-cousins","tag-jake-cronenworth","tag-la","tag-la-dodgers","tag-ladodgers","tag-landon-knack","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesdodgers","tag-luis-campusano","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-waldron","tag-miguel-andujar","tag-mlb","tag-randy-vasquez","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-teoscar-hernandez","tag-tommy-edman"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116606313653364192","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703876","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=703876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}