It’s Tuesday, June 17 and the Padres (39-32) are in Los Angeles to take on the Dodgers (44-29). Randy Vásquez is slated to take the mound for San Diego. Yesterday, Shohei Ohtani started his first game on the mound since 2023. He only pitched one inning, but the Dodgers beat the Padres 6-3.

The Dodgers and Padres squared off this week in their first of four 2025 regular-season series and the first rematch since the Southern California foes faced off in last year’s NLDS. With the Dodgers holding a one-game lead on both the Padres and Giants atop the NL West entering the series, the stakes were readily apparent.

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The Dodgers' utility man wrote his name in the record book during mop up duty in an ugly loss to the Padres Tuesday.

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