The Dodgers bumped their NL West lead back up to five games on Wednesday after they secured the series win in New York while the Padres completed a three-game sweep over the second-place Giants. They finish up the long road trip in Arizona for their final series against the D-backs, a four-game set, on Thursday night. The Dodgers have 17 games remaining on their regular season schedule, and the magic number to clinch the division for the fourth consecutive year is 13.
The six remaining games against San Francisco will be critical and stress-inducing, but a series win in the desert would be ideal going into the final homestand.