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Dodgers Starting Rotation Lines Up Perfect Against the Padres This Week

The Dodgers and Padres will face off for the first time this season starting on Friday. The two National League pennant favorites will play a highly-anticipated series in San Diego over the weekend.

The good news for the Dodgers is that their starting rotation lines up perfect. After shifting a few things around so that Clayton Kershaw could go on normal rest today, Dave Roberts could potentially be throwing his best arms at the Padres.



As it lines up right now, Trevor Bauer, Dustin May, and Julio Urias are set to throw this week. The Dodgers will host the Colorado Rockies for a 3-game series with those guys going. That makes the San Diego series very interesting.

The Dodgers could line up to throw Clayton Kershaw, Walker Buehler, and Trevor Bauer in that series. The biggest question at this point seems to be if they will try to keep Kershaw on his regular rest, meaning he would throw Friday. That would likely move Walker Buehler back to Saturday though, and he would be pitching on 7 days of rest. 

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Whatever order they go in, the Dodgers appear ready to give the Padres looks at some of their top arms to start the season. With 19 games being played between the two NL West teams in 2021, it should be a whole lot of fun. 

Unfortunately, the Dodgers won’t get to see the Padres operating at full health. Superstar shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr is still in injury limbo with his shoulder issue. San Diego placed him on the 10-day IL but are still unsure about the route that he will take to get back to full health. While some experts think he may miss the entire season, the Padres aren’t so sure. 

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8 Comments

  1. I don’t like messing with the rotation. Looks like
    we are playing scared and saving our aces

    1. Yep. There’s no reason to jerk the rotation around. Any Dodger starting pitcher can beat any team out there

  2. It’s more accurate to say the Dodgers are realigning their rotation then to say it lines up perfectly. And the fact that they would realign it in anticipation of playing the Padres is a better story than saying its ok already.
    Roberts/Freidman obviously don’t think that changing a pitchers routine would throw him off, like he’s a machine you can just turn him on and run him out there!

  3. This is Dave Roberts outsmarting himself once again!

    No World Series this year = no Roberts next year.

    Right the wrong of 1999: bring back Mike Scioscia.

  4. That’s exactly what Roberts is scared of the padres that’s why all the shuffling.No need for that cause al of our starters are better than theirs all they have is Snell and he’s only good for 4+ innings..NO NEED FOR THAT!

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