San Diego at Los Angeles

The winner of this game may ultimately determine who starts the All-Star game. Brad penny and Jake Peavy have both had outstanding seasons. Peavy has shown signs of coming back to a more reasonable level from what you would expect. He has allowed more hits than innings pitched in his last five starts and his ERA during this stretch has been 3.69. Certainly not bad but much less dominating than what he was early. Brad Penny has been good. He has had one bad start and if you remove that game he has a good 1.41 ERA in his 15 other starts. The Dodgers are 33-11 in his last 44 starts, 18-5 at home while the Padres are a mediocre 13-15 in Peavy's last 28 road starts. The Padres are only hitting .225 as a team over the last week, while the Dodgers are hitting well over .300. If these two exchange 0's, the Padre pen has yielded 6 runs in their last 13.1 innings or 4.05, to the Dodgers 3 runs in their last 14, or 1.93. The Dodgers have been amongst the best teams at home all year and have been an exceptional 21-12 off a loss. In a matchup of titans the Dodgers just have more bullets working for them right now, so we will ride the home team to even the series.