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The Dodgers wrapped up an awful week of baseball with a 4-2 loss to the Cubs last night for a third consecutive series loss. The Dodgers went 2-4 against the Nationals and Cubs last week and were outscored 39-17 in the six games since leaving Philly (heavily aided by a 16-0 drubbing on Saturday), leaving them with a 0 run differential and an 11-6 record that is the third-best in the NL West. They would still be leading every other division besides the NL East (the 10-5 Mets have a better winning percentage), but it’s been an ugly stretch for a team that entered the season seemingly untouchable. Today might just begin the antidote they need as they welcome the Rockies to LA for their first matchup this season. Colorado has gotten off to a horrible 3-12 start and have already been outscored by 44 runs in just 15 games. They got swept in San Diego over the weekend and literally scored zero runs in the 27 innings they played there. The Dodgers won 10 of the 13 games against Colorado last season, but two of the three losses came in LA.

7:10 P.M. Los Angeles SS Tovar DH Ohtani (L) RF Martini (L) SS Betts DH Farmer 1B Freeman (L) 3B McMahon (L) C Smith 1B Toglia (S) LF Conforto (L) CF Moniak (L) CF Edman (S) C Goodman 3B Muncy (L) LF Veen (L) 2B K. Hernández 2B Amador (S) RF Pages P Senzatela (R) P May (R) Dustin May makes his third start of the season tonight. May’s been pretty good in his return after nearly two years away, allowing one earned run (and three unearned) and only four hits over 11 innings. May got through six innings in Washington D.C., but allowed two unearned runs after errors by Mookie Betts and Miguel Rojas in the second and his lone earned run came an inning later. May has walked three batters in each of his two starts and while he paired that with 11 whiffs and six strikeouts in his first start, he only got three whiffs and one strikeout in Washington. Despite the walks and errors, May only needed 86 pitches to get through six so he does seem to be working up to a normal starter pitch load. Obviously the sample size in minuscule, but May has thrown a sweeper more often than ever this season. He’s at 35.9 percent usage on it (has never been tracked throwing it more than 20.3 percent in the past) and he still hasn’t allowed a hit off it.

Antonio Senzatela gets the start tonight and has had a fascinatingly weird start to his season. Senzatela started the second game of the season in Tampa Bay or wherever they’re playing and didn’t allow a run over 4 1/3 innings, but did allow nine hits and two walks while not recording a strikeout. Senzatela’s second start was similar, as he allowed one unearned run over 5 1/3 innings but allowed 10 hits and only struck out three Phillies. The wheels fell off in his last start, where the eight hits he allowed caught up to him as he allowed eight earned runs (and one unearned) over 4 1/3 innings. Senzatela had Tommy John Surgery in 2023 and came back for three starts last September, two of those against the Dodgers. Senzatela was quite good in LA, allowing a run and five hits over five innings. His start in Colorado went much worse, with six earned runs (and one unearned) and six hits over 4 1/3 innings in the second-to-last game of the season.

Senzatela’s thrown five different pitch types this season but over 80 percent of his offerings have been a fastball or slider. He’s also thrown a changeup (9.7 percent), curveball (6.9 percent (nice)) and has thrown four sinkers this season. All of those offerings besides the sinker have been hit pretty hard. His four-seamer (55.2 percent) has been his “best” pitch, with a .395 average and .474 slugging against. His xBA on the fastball is .328 which is the best of his four main offerings. Despite his lack of strikeouts (only an 8.8 percent strikeout rate, the third-lowest among pitchers with 10+ innings thrown this season), his slider (29.4 percent), change (35.7 percent) and curve (20 percent) have all had pretty good whiff rates.

Teoscar Hernandez is out of the lineup for the first time this season (more on that in a bit). Andy Pages gets the start in right with Tommy Edman in center and Enrique Hernandez at second.

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Teo could potentially be available off the bench.

Teoscar Hernández is the latest Dodger to be battling a stomach bug. He’s out of the lineup today, but could be available off bench, per Dave Roberts

— Jack Harris (@ByJackHarris) April 14, 2025

He’s dealing with a stomach bug and considered day-to-day.

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Blake Snell played catch for the first time since hitting the IL.

Blake Snell played catch today in the 20-30 throw range. Manager Dave Roberts said he felt better than expected. Next step is more catch hopefully tomorrow.

— Dodger Insider (@DodgerInsider) April 14, 2025

He reportedly felt better than expected and could play catch again tomorrow. Landon Knack is starting tomorrow and Wednesday’s starter is TBA (but almost definitely Bobby Miller), and with Tony Gonsolin nearing the end of his rehab assignment so they likely won’t need to rush Snell back. However, he reportedly could return without a rehab assignment depending on how he progresses.

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First pitch is scheduled for 7:10 PM PT and will be shown on SportsNet LA.