With a win tonight, the Dodgers assure themselves of a winning season with their 82nd win. They won their 82nd game in 2008 in their 157th game, on September 23.
Here are tonight's lineups:
| Padres | Dodgers | |||
| SS | Cabrera | SS | Furcal | |
| 2B | Eckstein | CF | Pierre | |
| 1B | A.Gonzalez | RF | Ethier | |
| 3B | Kouzmanoff | LF | Manny | |
| RF | Venable | 1B | Loney | |
| LF | Headley | 3B | Belliard | |
| C | Blanco | C | Martin | |
| CF | Gwynn | 2B | Hudson | |
| P | Stauffer | P | Kuroda | |