Los Angeles Dodgers SP Clayton Kershaw has allowed just two home runs in 85 1\/3 career innings versus the San Diego Padres<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nLos Angeles finished third in the NL West last year with an 82-79 record, capturing wins in 25 of its last 35 games.\u00a0 The Dodgers were recently sold for $2.15 billion to a ground involving former Lakers great Magic Johnson, as the team looks ahead to potentially a turnaround season with NL MVP runner-up Matt Kemp leading the charge.\u00a0 He finished the year hitting .324 with 39 home runs and 126 RBI.\u00a0 Los Angeles is 22-28 in April over the last two years and the \u201cover\u201d is 32-15 in that span.<\/p>\n
Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw captured the NL Cy Young Award last year, posting a tremendous 21-5 record and 2.28 ERA in 33 starts.\u00a0 The left-hander was 9-4 with a 2.87 ERA on the road, as he looks to improve his April numbers from a year ago.\u00a0 Kershaw registered a losing 1-3 record and 4.31 ERA in five starts during the month.\u00a0 He will be making his 14th career start versus the Padres, going 7-3 with a 2.32 ERA, as he\u2019s surrendered just two home runs in 85 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
San Diego finished behind tonight\u2019s opponent in the divisional standings with a 71-91 record last year.\u00a0 The Padres finished Spring Training with a 20-16 overall record, as they were tied for the Major League lead with 195 runs scored coming into yesterday\u2019s contest against the Kansas City Royals.\u00a0 Offensively, the team\u2019s 41 home runs through Wednesday was second in baseball.\u00a0 San Diego is 24-25 in April and the \u201cunder\u201d is 27-19 in that situation the last two years.<\/p>\n
Padres starting pitcher Edinson Volquez comes over from the Cincinnati Reds, as he comes off a 5-7 season with a 5.71 ERA in 20 starts.\u00a0 The right-hander is just three years removed from winning 17 games and making the NL All-Star team in 2008.\u00a0 Volquez will be facing the Dodgers for just the second time in his career, surrendering just a single run in seven innings in a 8-1 home victory on April 22.<\/p>\n
Bettors will likely back the Dodgers due to their 10-2 record in the last 12 meetings in this series, while the Padres are 1-10 in their last 11 games versus left-handed starters.<\/p>\n
Make sure to check out our Major League Baseball picks<\/a> all season long and get the most up-to-date betting odds at Bookmaker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Dodgers (0-0) and San Diego Padres (0-0) will start up their 2012 MLB seasons on Thursday night inside Petco Park. Los Angeles Dodgers at San Diego Padres\u00a0 Los Angeles finished third in the NL West last year with an 82-79 record, capturing wins in 25 of its last 35 games.\u00a0 The Dodgers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[161,1040,429,4868,1605,891],"class_list":["post-22624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-clayton-kershaw","tag-edinson-volquez","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-matt-kemp","tag-petco-park","tag-san-diego-padres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22626,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22624\/revisions\/22626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/clayton-kershaw-dodgers-89.jpg\")
<\/a>