Current form, pitching matchup and a strong situational element make the Dodgers an easy choice here.

LA is playing its best ball winning 10 of its past 12 games. San Diego is 1-4 in its last five games.

The pitching matchup is slow-starting Blake Snell versus Dustin May. Snell is 0-2 with a 5.93 ERA on the road this season. May is 4-1 with a 2.68 ERA this season. That ERA gets reduced even more to 2.20 if you go by just his last three starts.

The Dodgers are rested after being idle yesterday, while the Padres are traveling from Minnesota where they just concluded a three-game series against the Twins that finished on Thursday.

LA has defeated San Diego in 38 of the past 52 times it has hosted the Padres.