Over the past 10 days, the San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Dodgers have faced off seven times—and on Thursday night, in the final game of a four-game series, the tension finally reached a breaking point.

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts gets into a heated argument with Padres manager Mike Shildt and the benches clear in the ninth inning of the Dodgers’ 5-3 loss. The Dodgers won seven of the 10

Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts pushed his San Diego Padres counterpart, Mike Shildt, as benches cleared during a ninth-inning quarrel between the MLB rivals at Dodger Stadium.

In winning five of the seven games, the Los Angeles Dodgers also hit Fernando Tatis Jr. with pitches three times. The last of those came in the eighth inning of Thursday's 5-3 San Diego Padres victory when the benches finally cleared after Tatis was hit near the right hand.

Pregame analysis and predictions of the Washington Nationals vs. Los Angeles Dodgers MLB game to be played on June 20, 2025 on ESPN.

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It's Friday, June 20 and the Nationals (31-44) are in Los Angeles to take on the Dodgers (46-30). MacKenzie Gore is slated to take the mound for Washington against Clayton Kershaw for Los Angeles. Yesterday the Dodgers dropped game four of the series against the Padres.

The Padres are looking to avoid the 4-game sweep after suffering a 4-3 walk-off loss Wednesday night. San Diego scored 2 runs in the top of the ninth inning to tie the game, but C Will Smith belted a pinch-hit walk-off solo homer to send the home crowd into hysterics.