The Dodgers have beaten the Padres in 11 of their last 15 meetings at Dodger Stadium.
Manny Ramirez was a late scratch tonight, for reasons yet unknown UPDATE: Per Vin Scully: with an injured left foot that occurred in pregame warmups. Availability tonight is unknown
Here are the lineups:
| Padres | Dodgers | |||
| RF | Venable | C | Martin | |
| 2B | Eckstein | RF | Paul | |
| 1B | Gonzalez | CF | Kemp | |
| 3B | Headley | 1B | Loney | |
| LF | Stairs | 3B | Blake | |
| C | Torrealba | LF | Johnson | |
| CF | Gwynn | 2B | DeWitt | |
| SS | Cabrera | SS | Carroll | |
| P | Garland | P | Ortiz | |