The Dodgers are 19-12 in games started by opposing left-handed pitchers. Lefty starters against the Dodgers this season have a 5.15 ERA and 1.447 WHIP while averaging 5.53 innings per start, as compared to a 4.23 ERA and 1.360 WHIP in 6.03 innings per start for right-handed starters.
The Dodgers are hitting .272/.358/.433 against lefty starters, versus .264/.330/.401 against righty starting pitchers. Doug Davis is left-handed.
Here's a new video of "Lil' Matt" Kemp, courtesy of Inside The Dodgers.
Here are tonight's lineups:
| Dodgers | Diamondbacks | |||
| SS | Furcal | SS | Drew | |
| RF | Ethier | LF | Oeltjen | |
| LF | Manny | CF | Parra | |
| CF | Kemp | 3B | Reynolds | |
| 3B | Blake | C | Montero | |
| 1B | Loretta | 1B | Tracy | |
| 2B | Hudson | RF | Romero | |
| C | Ausmus | 2B | Ojeda | |
| P | Kuroda | P | Davis | |