LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers originally planned to use a six-man rotation through their three-game series against the Giants in San Francisco, but over the weekend shifted course. Instead, Hyun-jin Ryu will be skipped this time through the rotation, and Clayton Kershaw was moved up from Wednesday to Tuesday.
Ryu rebounded from surgeries to repair a torn labrum in his shoulder and an arthroscopic clean-up an debridement in his left elbow the last two years, procedures that limited him to just one start in 2016-2017 combined.
The 30-year-old left-hander has a 3.