The Los Angeles Dodgers will host the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday, and Shohei Ohtani will take the mound for the eighth time this season. He's pitched three innings in each of his last three starts,

The Dodgers dominated Tuesday night's meeting 12-6 to even up the series as Max Muncy and Teoscar Hernandez both homered twice. Los Angeles is 5-5 in the last 10 games, while St. Louis is 3-7 in theirs, so neither has played great recently.

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The Los Angeles Dodgers will host the St. Louis Cardinals once more at Dodger Stadium with an afternoon first pitch set for Wednesday’s series finale.

The Dodgers didn’t have the offensive firepower they had on Tuesday night, and combined with sloppy defense late in Wednesday’s game resulted in the Cardinals stealing the rubber match and the series by a final score of 5-3.

Walker Buehler (6-6, 5.74 ERA, 1.60 WHIP, 71 strikeouts); Padres: Nick Pivetta (11-3, 2.73 ERA, 0.94 WHIP, 136 strikeouts) BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Padres -187, Red Sox +155; over/under is 8 runs BOTTOM LINE: The San Diego Padres host the Boston Red Sox on Friday to begin a three-game series.

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