San Diego at Los Angeles

I was on the Dodgers in the opener of this series Tuesday, and their bats made quick work of San Diego in a laugher. The Padres answered by taking the middle game, and they have won eight of their last ten, so there is a real case that this set is more even than the overall records suggest. But the season-long gap between these two clubs is not close. Los Angeles sits at 97-61 to San Diego's 88-70, and the underlying numbers back it up: the Dodgers score and prevent runs at an elite level, and that kind of two-way strength shows up over 162 games for a reason. Tyler Glasnow gets the ball for the Dodgers tonight and has been sharp on the mound, posting a 3.46 ERA, and I will take the class of the National League to answer in a rubber match with real stakes behind it. Los Angeles is the play on the moneyline tonight.