How Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw turned back the clock with a vintage performance against the Padres.

The San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Dodgers play each other six times in 10 days starting with Friday night, and Fernando Tatis Jr. is pumped up for it.

The San Diego Padres dropped their opening game of a three-game set against the Los Angeles Dodgers, 3-2, bringing them level with their rivals in the NL West.

Padres reliever Jeremiah Estrada has flourished by discovering the virtues of the elevated fastball, pairing elite velocity with elite characteristics that make it death on those who dare to swing at an elevated heater. But Hernández was ready for it, taking an elevated fastball for a strike before unleashing on the second one he saw.

The workers, who unionized last year, are ramping up the pressure during contract negotiations that have stalled over wages and benefits.

The Los Angeles Dodgers haven't lost the division since the San Francisco Giants won the NL West in 2021. But for much of the decade, it's the Dodgers who have