San Diego will send Yu Darvish to the mound while Los Angeles will have rookie Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitching in front of the home crowd. Darvish (7-3, 3.31 ERA) and Yamamoto (7-2, 3.00 ERA) both have excellent arms and will attempt to win the series for their squads.

The Los Angeles Dodgers shut out the San Diego Padres in Game 4 of the NLDS, forcing a winner-take-all Game 5 in Los Angeles on Friday night. With the New York

Mookie Betts was hitless in his last five postseason games dating back to the 2022 NLDS when Jurickson Profar reached into the stands on Sunday in Los Angeles to rob him of a first-inning homer, the start of another hitless game that ran his slump to 0-for-20 over six games.