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The All-Star Break came and went, and the Dodgers kick off the second half returning home for a six game homestand. The Dodgers salvaged the end of the first half winning the final two games in San Francisco to snap a season-high seven game losing streak, and begin the second half 5.5 games up on the Padres in the West, half a game up on the Cubs in the NL and a game behind the Tigers for the top record in baseball. Today, they kick off the second half with a weekend series against the Brewers. Milwaukee was part of the Dodgers’ losing streak, as they swept LA in Milwaukee last week. The Dodgers only scored four runs in the three games and only scored 10 in six games against Houston and Milwaukee to start the losing streak. They did bounce back with 15 runs over the three games in San Francisco over the weekend, but this weekend they face two starters that combined for 12 innings, seven hits and one run allowed when they saw them in Milwaukee.
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| 2B | Turang (L) | DH | Ohtani (L) |
| C | Contreras | SS | Betts |
| CF | Chourio | 1B | Freeman (L) |
| DH | Yelich (L) | C | Smith |
| 1B | Vaughn | RF | T. Hernández |
| RF | Collins (S) | LF | Conforto (L) |
| LF | Bauers (L) | CF | Pages |
| 3B | Durbin | 2B | Kim (L) |
| SS | Ortiz | 3B | Edman (S) |
| P | Priester (R) | P | Glasnow (R) |
Tyler Glasnow makes his second start off his injury, both coming against the Brewers. He started last Wednesday in Milwaukee and was solid, allowing an unearned run and two hits over five innings. He did issue three walks and needed 85 pitches to get through those three innings, but it was a pretty good return after missing around two and a half months. His velocity was up from his five starts before the injury and both hits he allowed were singles, but the Brewers did steal three bases off him and Will Smith, whose throwing error on one of the steals led to the unearned run. This will be Glasnow’s fourth start in LA this season. In his two full starts, Glasnow allowed two earned runs over 11 innings against Atlanta and the Cubs. Glasnow struggled in his most recent start at home, allowing back-to-back homers in the first before leaving the game after finishing the inning with the shoulder issue that landed him on the IL.
Quinn Priester gets his 18th appearance/13th start of the season and his first career look at the Dodgers. The former Pirate first rounder was the 60th-ranked prospect on Pipeline in 2023, but he posted a 6.46 ERA over 20 outings for Pittsburgh before they moved him at the deadline last year to Boston. He only made one start in Boston (spent most of the season in AAA) before being moved to Milwaukee in April. Priester last pitched in a bulk role against Washington before the break and allowed two runs and four hits over the final six innings of the game. Priester’s pitched at least five innings in 13 of his 17 outings and has a 3.55 ERA on the season, but that’s pretty inflated by back-to-back rough starts earlier in the season. Priester allowed 12 runs in 9 1/3 innings over two outings against St. Louis and Chicago, but in his last 12 outings he’s allowed only 20 runs (a 2.76 ERA) and has struck out 53 with 16 walks. Despite Priester’s worst appearance coming in Milwaukee, he’s been much better at home (.560 OPS, 3.02 ERA) than on the road (.825 OPS, 4.09 ERA). Priester’s never faced the Dodgers and has only ever faced one current Dodger (Michael Conforto, who is 1-for-3 with a single off him).
Priester is a sinkerballer (43 percent usage this season which is his career high) and his 58.1 percent ground ball rate is the fourth highest among pitchers with 80 or more innings pitches this season. He also throws a slider (29.1 percent and throws them to both righties and lefties), cutter (16.8 percent), curve (8.9 percent) and a change (2.2 percent, only to lefties). His slider and curve each have whiff rates over 30 percent and batting averages against/expected averages against under .200. When the slider does get his through, it can be trouble. Six of the 11 homers Priester’s allowed this year have come off the slider and of the 20 hits he’s allowed off it, 11 have been for extra bases.
A pretty standard lineup for the Dodgers coming out of the break. Tommy Edman gets another start at third with Hyeseong Kim starting at short.
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The rest of the Dodgers’ rotation coming out of the break has been announced. Emmet Sheehan starts tomorrow and Clayton Kershaw starts the finale against the Brewers on Sunday.
Shohei Ohtani will pitch Monday in the opener against the Twins, with Dustin May following him. The hope is that Ohtani gets through three innings as he did in San Francisco. Yoshinobu Yamamoto will start Tuesday, but no word if the rotation will turn with Glasnow getting the start on Wednesday or not.
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Max Muncy played catch today and has been swinging and jogging.
Dave Roberts said Max Muncy’s return is going to be a lot sooner than anticipated. He’s now swinging a bat, as well as jogging and throwing.
— Dodger Insider (@DodgerInsider) July 18, 2025
Seems like his return is going better than expected, so hopefully his timeline is on the shorter end of the initial six+ week initial estimate.
Blake Snell and Roki Sasaki also continue to progress.
Snell made his first rehab start last Thursday with Rancho and made another one on Tuesday with the ACL Dodgers. He went three innings last time out, though I haven’t been able to track down a pitch count. He threw 31 pitches in his first rehab start so I’d assume he was in the high 30-low 40 range.
Sasaki has been throwing bullpens and is slowly working on regaining his velocity.
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First pitch is scheduled for 7:10 PM PT and will be shown on SportsNet LA.
