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Dodgers pitcher Julio Urías delivers during a game.
Dodgers pitcher Julio Urías will start against the San Diego Padres on Tuesday.(Michael Owens / Getty Images)
The Dodgers try to gain ground on the Giants while taking on the struggling Padres in San Diego.
BY TIMES STAFF
The Dodgers hope to send Julio Urías to the mound Tuesday night to take on the Padres at Petco Park.
6:15 AM AUGUST 24
Alex Vesia looking forward to personal homestand vs. Padres
By Tom Krasovic
Alex Vesia
Alex Vesia (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Alex Vesia enjoyed being outside, growing up in Alpine, the East County town of some 15,000 residents tucked into the Cuyamaca Mountains.
He played Little League baseball, rode his bicycle and stayed busy in the family’s large backyard.
“When I wasn’t playing baseball,” he said, “I was usually out at the desert, riding a dirt bike or camping with my family.”
If a home repair was needed, neither Alex nor his sister, Serena, saw plumbers or electricians show up. Alex’s parents did the job themselves. Cindy is a composite tool maker for General Atomics. Bob owns a machine shop company.
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6:00 AM AUGUST 24
Dodgers are surging. Padres are slumping. But ‘a battle’ is still expected this week
By Mike DiGiovanna
When we last left baseball’s Interstate-5 rivalry, the San Diego Padres had completed a three-game sweep of the Dodgers to move to within a half-game of second place on June 23, and Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer had ripped his own team, saying the Padres “absolutely kicked our ass from an intensity standpoint.”
Much has changed since.
Bauer, for starters, has been on paid administrative leave since July 2 while Major League Baseball and the Pasadena Police Department investigate a domestic violence allegation against the right-hander, whose career is in jeopardy after signing a three-year, $102-million deal last winter.
After the Athletic reported on July 29 that the Padres were “close to acquiring” Washington Nationals ace Max Scherzer, it was the Dodgers who swung a blockbuster deal for the three-time Cy Young Award winner and All-Star shortstop Trea Turner the next day.