The Padres came from a one-run deficit in their season home opener on Sunday to beat NL West rival Los Angeles who will aim to get things back on track after a disappointing performance from its newly-upgraded bullpen. <\/p>\n
LAD: Zach \u00a0Greinke (R) (2013: 15-4, 2.63 ERA) v SD: Ian Kennedy (R) (2013: 7-10, 4.91 ERA)<\/strong> ATS Matchup Insight<\/a> | CappersPicks Insider Preview<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The Dodgers (2-1)\u00a0 were stunned in Sunday night and have reasons to be concerned, after just three games into the 2014 season. That’s because their bullpen was awful, even after making pitching a focus of their offseason.<\/p>\n Enter Brian Wilson, who was re-signed by LA, and imploded on Sunday, surrendering a three-run eighth inning, which was two more runs than he allowed in all of 2013, including postseason.<\/p>\n It was the second time the Dodgers bullpen was stunned, allowing five runs in relief in its final game in Australia against the Arizona Diamondbacks on March 22.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, LA’s offense was kept in check as Padres ‘starter Andrew Cashner and a bevy of relievers were nearly flawless. They held the Dodgers to just four hits and combined to strike out nine batters. Nevertheless, he will join the rotation on Tuesday after a strong six-inning spring outing\u00a0 last week.<\/p>\n Greinke dominated San Diego last season, going 2-0 with a 1.44 ERA in four starts.<\/p>\n He will oppose Ian Kennedy for the first time since last June 11, when then-Diamondback Kennedy hit Greinke a high pitch that started a bench-clearing brawl that resulted in six ejections.<\/p>\n Kennedy, who was acquired at the trade deadline last season, has shown improvement with the Padres, going 4-2 with a 4.24 ERA after the trade.<\/p>\n He owns a 7-2 record with a 2.41 ERA in 12 all-time starts at Petco Park, but did not fare well against the Dodgers last season going 0-2 with a 6.62 ERA in three starts..<\/p>\n LF Carlos Quentin\u2019s stint on the disabled list due to left knee soreness will last past April 10, the day he would be eligible to return<\/p>\n San Diego was able to pull off a big win on Sunday at the expense of the Dodgers bullpen, which I expect not to be too big of a factor in this one as Greinke is more than capable of going nearly the distance.<\/p>\n Los Angeles vs San Diego MLB Gambling Tips The Padres came from a one-run deficit in their season home opener on Sunday to beat NL West rival Los Angeles who will aim to get things back on track after a disappointing performance from its newly-upgraded bullpen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":978,"featured_media":74861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[54459,470,34888,54904,54454,3775,12591],"class_list":["post-74837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb-baseball","tag-dodgers-vs-padres","tag-free-pick","tag-l-a-dodgers","tag-l-a-dodgers-vs-san-diego-padres","tag-l-a-vs-san-diego","tag-mlb-odds","tag-san-diego-padres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74837"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74862,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74837\/revisions\/74862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Date\/Time: 6:40 pm ET Tuesday, April 1, 2014 ,<\/strong>
\n Venue: \u00a0Petco Park, San Diego, California<\/strong>
\n Broadcast: SportsNet Los Angeles, FSN San Diego<\/strong>
\n Line: -150<\/strong>
\n Total: OFF<\/strong>
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\nOn Tuesday, LA will send Zack Greinke to the hill. The 2009 American League Cy Young Award winner finished the 2013 regular season with a bang, but strained his right calf early in spring training.<\/p>\nMatt\u2019s Free Prediction: Dodgers<\/h3>\n
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