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Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> (52-29, first in the NL West) vs. San Diego Padres<\/a> (42-37, second in the NL West)<\/p>\n

San Diego; Friday, 9:45 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Dodgers: Roki Sasaki<\/a> (3-4, 4.76 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 70 strikeouts); Padres: Walker Buehler<\/a> (4-3, 3.96 ERA, 1.32 WHIP, 65 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Dodgers -152, Padres +125; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The San Diego Padres start a three-game series at home against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday.<\/p>\n

San Diego is 42-37 overall and 22-19 in home games. The Padres have gone 23-7 in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has gone 26-15 in road games and 52-29 overall. Dodgers hitters have a collective .438 slugging percentage to lead the NL.<\/p>\n

Friday’s game is the fourth meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Fernando Tatis Jr.<\/a> has three home runs, 30 walks and 28 RBIs while hitting .283 for the Padres. Samad Taylor<\/a> is 16 for 39 with a home run and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Shohei Ohtani<\/a> has 15 doubles, two triples and 17 home runs while hitting .295 for the Dodgers. Mookie Betts<\/a> is 14 for 40 with three doubles and three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Padres: 6-4, .229 batting average, 3.27 ERA, outscored opponents by eight runs<\/p>\n

Dodgers: 7-3, .254 batting average, 3.94 ERA, outscored opponents by one run<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Padres: Luis Campusano<\/a>: 10-Day IL (toe), Jeremiah Estrada: 15-Day IL (knee), German Marquez: 15-Day IL (forearm), Lucas Giolito: 15-Day IL (elbow), Matt Waldron<\/a>: 15-Day IL (arm), Nick Pivetta: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jake Cronenworth<\/a>: 7-Day IL (concussion), Joe Musgrove: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ramon Laureano<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Bryan Hoeing: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Dodgers: Gavin Stone<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Landon Knack<\/a>: 60-Day IL (chest), Bobby Miller<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Will Smith: 10-Day IL (neck), Teoscar Hernandez: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Kyle Tucker<\/a>: day-to-day (back), Blake Treinen<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Evan Phillips<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ben Casparius<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Tyler Glasnow: 60-Day IL (back), Brusdar Graterol: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Blake Snell<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Kike Hernandez: 10-Day IL (oblique), Edwin Diaz<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jake Cousins<\/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 (52-29, first in the NL West) vs. San Diego Padres (42-37, 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":[5,1134,114,1692,1522,39,1087,2271,75686,920,1523,2283,872,29,1165,4332,4333,1539,774,57,3224,4331,12913,19,2282,4,1526,1495,110,1335,18,468,115],"class_list":["post-735917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-baseball","tag-ben-casparius","tag-blake-snell","tag-blake-treinen","tag-bobby-miller","tag-dodgers","tag-edwin-diaz","tag-evan-phillips","tag-event_preview","tag-fernando-tatis-jr","tag-gavin-stone","tag-jake-cousins","tag-jake-cronenworth","tag-kyle-tucker","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-mlb","tag-mookie-betts","tag-ramon-laureano","tag-roki-sasaki","tag-samad-taylor","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-walker-buehler"],"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\/735917","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=735917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735917\/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=735917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}