There are still 13 regular-season games between the Dodgers and Padres, and all but one have lived up to the hype. It’s not often that you feel playoff-like intensity in mid-April, but that’s exactly how each contest has felt.
The two teams have split their 6 meetings thus far, and there have been plenty of fireworks from both sides. Over the previous two games, however, it has been the Fernando Tatis Show at Dodger Stadium.
The Friar shortstop has gone deep four times in his past two outings, awakening from an early-season slump that had many questioning what could be ailing one of the game’s brightest young stars.