The San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Dodgers are two of the best teams in a highly competitive National League West. The San Francisco Giants and Arizona Diamondbacks are both potential postseason teams,

Machado even admitted that Pages is playing well in 2025. However, the Dodgers have future Hall of Famers on the roster such as Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman.

It wasn’t a perfect performance by Shohei Ohtani. But Monday night’s long-awaited return to the mound marked a resounding success for Ohtani and the Dodgers nonetheless.

"Yeah, it changed quite a bit," Ohtani told the Japanese media, according to a translation from DodgersBeat. "My arm slot dropped, and that was mainly due to better coordination with my lower body. At this stage, we felt that lowering the angle would give us the best results, so it happened naturally."

All eyes were on Dodgers Stadium as two-way player Shohei Ohtani took the mound for the first time since 2023 on Monday night. “They were watching the Show,” Pa

The San Diego Padres are considered buyers as they are currently in a Wild Card spot and two games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Teoscar Hernández broke a sixth-inning tie with a three-run homer and Michael Conforto also went deep for the Los Angeles Dodgers, who beat the San Diego Padres 5-2 to take two of three games in the first series this season between the NL West rivals.

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.