07/05/2009 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Chad Billingsley tries to win his 10th game of the season this afternoon when the Los Angeles Dodgers play the rubber match of their three-game series with the San Diego Padres at Petco Park.
Billingsley, though, is winless in his last three starts and was charged with the loss on Tuesday against Colorado, which managed three runs and five hits off of him in 7 2/3 innings. Despite matching a season-high with 11 strikeouts, Billingsley was on the wrong end of the 3-0 decision, dropping him to 9-4 to go along with a 3.12 earned run average.
The 24-year-old right-hander has beaten the Padres three times already this season and is 8-3 lifetime against them with a 2.62 ERA in 16 games, 12 of which have been starts.
San Diego will counter with Josh Banks, who will be making his second start of the season. Banks, filling in for the injured Wade LeBlanc, picked up his first win of the season on Tuesday against Houston, as he held the Astros to three runs and five hits in seven innings.
Banks has never faced the Dodgers.
Los Angeles got a home run from Manny Ramirez on Saturday, but San Diego scored six times over the seventh and eighth innings to pull out a 7-4 win.
Everth Cabrera, David Eckstein and Adrian Gonzalez -- the Padres' top three hitters -- combined to go 6-for-14 with six runs batted in, helping San Diego snap a three-game losing streak.
Padres starter Josh Geer allowed two runs over 6 1/3 innings, while Greg Burke (1-0) took the win after getting the final two outs of the seventh.
Ramirez, who returned from his 50-game suspension Friday, belted the 534th home run of his career, tying him with Jimmie Foxx for 16th on the career list, but it wasn't enough to help the Dodgers win for the third consecutive game.
"I think this is his comfort zone, in that batter's box, in the ballpark, in the clubhouse," Dodgers manager Joe Torre said of Ramirez. "I think it's going to take a little time to get the rust off and get used to what he is doing."
After LA starter Randy Wolf gave up one run in six innings, in which he struck out eight, Ronald Belisario (1-3) gave up three runs in the seventh while recording one out. Ramon Troncoso allowed three more runs -- all unearned -- after replacing Belisario.
The Dodgers have won eight of 12 matchups with the Padres this season and 12 of the last 17 contests between the clubs.
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(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Mike Burns hopes the Milwaukee Brewers have some runs
left in them this afternoon when they close out a four-game series with the
Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field.
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(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Ricky Nolasco tries to win his fourth consecutive start
this afternoon when the Florida Marlins play the rubber match of their three-
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(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Right-hander Dan Haren can continue a stretch of sterling
mound work today and earn his Arizona Diamondbacks a series win when they
visit Coors Field to wrap up a three-game weekend series with the Colorado
Rockies.
Haren
<< Cards, Reds stage rubber match in Cincinnati
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Former National League Cy Young Award winner Chris
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Kaymer closed with a th
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Bronx, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - New York Yankees starter Chien-Ming Wang was
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announced on Sunday.
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