How to watch Padres vs. Dodgers today: Time, TV channel for Saturday's game
Both teams entered Saturday with a 69-53 overall record. The Dodgers snapped a four-game losing skid with a victory in the series opener on Friday. The Padres had a five-game winning streak snapped.
Blake Snell is likely to serve as the starting pitcher for the Dodgers on Saturday. He has a 2-1 record this season with a 2.37 ERA and 22 strikeouts in four starts.
Dylan Cease will likely serve as the starting pitcher for San Diego. Cease has compiled a 5-10 record this season with a 4.52 ERA and 169 strikeouts in 24 starts.
What time is Padres vs. Dodgers?
The Los Angeles Dodgers will host the San Diego Padres at 9:10 p.m. ET (6:10 p.m. PT) on Saturday, Aug. 16 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
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- New York Times
Dodgers step back, let Padres run themselves out of series, NL West lead
LOS ANGELES — There are no secrets between Blake Snell and the San Diego Padres. They leaned on him as they toppled the Los Angeles Dodgers in their most significant postseason series in decades. They got him at his best. His three years there included his second Cy Young campaign before he left to tour with their California-based division mates. Advertisement 'They know me so well,' Snell said. 'So they understand what the game's going to be.' With Snell donning a Dodgers uniform against the Padres for the first time, they knew to push the envelope. Take Snell's 2023 Cy Young campaign, when the left-hander allowed base runners close to free rein. Twenty-five stolen bases were taken while Snell was on the mound, and only one of them was thrown out successfully. It was a rare weakness worth exploiting — if you could do so successfully. When Fernando Tatis Jr. led off Saturday with a single off Snell, it was time to run. A Dodgers team that has bumbled through much of the last six weeks was more than willing to let the Padres beat themselves for a change. The Dodgers took advantage of their rival's ugly performance for a 6-0 win that will ensure Los Angeles will end this weekend with at least a share of first place in the NL West. The Padres tried to get aggressive on Snell. They cost themselves a whole offensive inning in the process. Don't run on Will! — Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) August 17, 2025 'Essentially, they played 24 outs,' Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. 'We had a plan, and they made some plays,' Padres manager Mike Shildt said. Tatis got thrown out at second just as quickly as he'd reached base, as Will Smith uncorked a perfect throw to nab him. Luis Arraez and Manny Machado each followed with hits, but their ensuing double steal got snuffed out as Smith threw out Machado on the back end. Xander Bogaerts tried the same to lead off the second inning; Smith rifled a throw to second baseman Miguel Rojas to mark the Padres' third out on the bases in a span of just five hitters. 'Looking back, maybe we shouldn't have gone,' Bogaerts said. 'I got my jump. I thought I was safe by a mile. But (Smith) has a good arm, man.' LIKE WE SAID, DON'T RUN ON WILL. — Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) August 17, 2025 That, Snell said, allowed him the chance to settle in. 'That kind of set the tone,' Snell said. Snell would complete six scoreless innings on the night, his longest start to date in a Dodgers uniform. At least one of those innings was completed on Smith's right arm, as he became just the third catcher in a century to catch three runners attempting to steal within the first four outs of a game. Advertisement 'They know him,' Roberts said. 'They've had him. So there must have been something they were keying on or saw as some type of competitive advantage. But fortunately, Will made some great throws and kept them at bay.' By then, the Dodgers had already jumped out to a big enough lead to give Snell some breathing room. Dylan Cease walked the first three batters he faced and had already walked four batters in the first inning alone before Michael Conforto lashed a bases-loaded single to expand an early lead to three runs. Conforto's season-long struggles had reached another new nadir this past week, when Roberts sat him down and illustrated the stakes. Conforto's $17 million signing hasn't produced the results anyone wanted. So Conforto should stop chasing them. 'I expect more out of myself,' said Conforto, whose .633 OPS is sixth-worst among hitters with at least 350 plate appearances. 'We talked through a lot of things, but that's the main thing. Just to fight for every inch in those situations.' Saturday, he worked a 3-0 count against Cease and did not expand. He missed a chance to square up a 3-1 fastball over the middle but stayed in to drive a hanging curveball through the hole to bring home a pair. The Dodgers were more than willing recipients an inning later when Freddie Freeman followed two more Cease walks with a lazy fly ball to center field that drifted toward the track and clanked off Jackson Merrill's glove to bring home two more runs. 'It's certainly good to be on the other side of things,' Roberts said. 'Obviously the last month you could see from watching us play there are things that we just don't do well to not help ourselves. The last couple nights, we've caught some breaks.' San Diego did plenty to help Snell, who still has only allowed two Yandy Díaz home runs in his return off the injured list. Saturday was hardly Snell at his best; he lacked some of the swing-and-miss stuff that has been his calling card, and a Padres team that strikes out less than any team in the National League was eager to put the ball in play. He got through six more scoreless frames regardless, including the three outs he was given on the bases. Advertisement Given how the last six weeks have gone for the Dodgers, as Clayton Kershaw quipped Friday night, perhaps they were due. The Padres had been dominant before arriving in Los Angeles, winning 23 of their last 35 games and becoming the first team to unseat the Dodgers from their top spot in the division this late into a season since 2021. That lasted a grand total of 48 hours, as the Dodgers will exit the first half of this stretch of six games in 10 days against the Padres with at least half of a hold on the NL West. Saturday came with another bonus: The Dodgers secured the season series against San Diego, and with it, a potential tiebreaker should this division remain tight for the remainder of the season. Dating back to a year ago, and including their win in the National League Division Series, the Dodgers have taken each of the last five series they've played against San Diego. 'Every game from here on out is gonna matter,' Smith said. 'So yeah, we want as big a lead as we can. We want to win the division. That's our first goal.' (Photo of Mookie Betts tagging out Fernando Tatis Jr.: Katelyn Mulcahy / Getty Images) Spot the pattern. Connect the terms Find the hidden link between sports terms Play today's puzzle
Washington Post
an hour ago
- Washington Post
Dodgers regain NL West lead from Padres as Snell shuts down his former team in 6-0 win
LOS ANGELES — Blake Snell limited his former team to five hits in six innings, and the Los Angeles Dodgers regained the NL West lead with a 6-0 victory over the San Diego Padres on Saturday night. The Dodgers drew six walks over the first two innings against Padres right-hander Dylan Cease, when they scored five runs on just one hit. Teoscar Hernandez hit his 20th homer of the season in the fifth inning.
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Dodgers capitalize on Padres' sloppiness to retake sole possession of first place
The San Diego Padres' performance on Saturday could probably be put in a tutorial video. Suggested title: How NOT to play a baseball game. On a night the surging Padres were trying to bounce back from the Dodgers' opening win in this weekend's pivotal three-game series, one that tied the two Southern California rivals atop the National League West standings, the club instead put on an exhibition of poor, sloppy and outright comical execution. While the once-slumping Dodgers have raised their level of play the last two nights, the Padres have made mistakes even Little League coaches would be reprimanding. Read more: Plaschke: The 'legend' Clayton Kershaw is legendary again for Dodgers Except in their case, even the coaching appeared to be part of the problem. In the Dodgers' 6-0 win — a victory that restored their solo lead in the division, and clinched their head-to-head series against the Padres this season — San Diego did all it could to give the game away from the start. In the top of the first, three of the Padres' first four batters recorded a hit against Blake Snell, the ex-Padre left-hander making his first start against the team since leaving in free agency at the end of 2023. But twice, Dodgers catcher Will Smith caught a runner trying to steal second, gunning down Fernando Tatis Jr. after his leadoff single before getting Manny Machado on the back end of an attempted double-steal to retire the side. Bad baserunning wasted another Padres' chance in the second, with Smith throwing out yet another runner, Xander Bogaerts, at second. It was the Dodgers' first game with three caught stealings since 2021, and only their second since 2011. Meanwhile, the Padres' pitching and defense somehow found a way to be worse. Starting pitcher Dylan Cease began his outing with three-straight walks in the bottom of the first. After a one-out sacrifice fly from Teoscar Hernández, Cease then reloaded the bases with another free pass to Andy Pages, and followed that with a hanging full-count curveball to Michael Conforto, who ripped a two-run single into right to give the Dodgers a 3-0 lead. Walks continued to abound in the second, with Cease putting Shohei Ohtani and Smith aboard. This time, he had appeared to work his way out of it, after Freddie Freeman hit a deep fly ball that died at the warning track in right-center. But on this night, even routine outs were no sure thing. Sensing Tatis converging from right field, center fielder Jackson Merrill briefly hesitated while pursuing the drive, before awkwardly reaching for it with an underhanded attempt. Predictably, he couldn't hold on, the ball hitting the heel of his mitt before falling to the ground. The error scored two runs. The Dodgers (70-53), who went on to get six shutout innings from Snell and a second home run in as many nights from Hernández, would never be threatened again. To recap the first two innings one more time: The Dodgers had just one hit, and saw their starting pitcher retire only one of the first five batters he faced — but drew six walks, were gifted a dropped ball and somehow led 5-0. The Padres (69-54) had four hits — but apparently forgot how to throw up a stop sign, committed the costliest of imaginable errors defensively, and watched their starting pitcher throw 31 balls to only 27 strikes. That, kids, is decidedly not how it's done. Not that the Dodgers seemed all too much to mind. Read more: Shaikin: Max Muncy's absence creates major matchup challenges for Dodgers hitters Over the last couple months, after all, they had been the team on the wrong end of sloppy fundamentals. What was once a nine-game division lead evaporated in the space of six weeks, thanks to unclutch offense, unreliable relief pitching and one maddening close loss after another. But in Friday's series opener, they had finally played clean baseball, and even more importantly, grinded out a one-run win. 'If you win the close games, that's how you build,' Freeman theorized last week. 'Then you'll score nine, 10 runs. Then you'll start putting some things together. But just need to find a way to win those close ones.' So far in this series, that prediction has come true. Not that Freeman, or anyone else with the Dodgers, could have expected the Padres to offer so much self-destructive help. Sign up for more Dodgers news with Dodgers Dugout. Delivered at the start of each series. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
