Monday night at Petco Park will bring a rematch of the sport's defending champions and the challenger that came closest to ousting them.

The San Diego Padres (39-31) will visit the Los Angeles Dodgers (42-29), Monday at 10:10 p.m. ET, in a clash of NL West rivals. The Dodgers are favored (-152 moneyline odds to win) when they square off against the Padres (+128). The Dodgers will give the ball to Ben Casparius (4-1) versus the Padres and Dylan Cease (2-5).

Although he won the 2024 National League MVP award and helped the Dodgers win the World Series, Shohei Ohtani had only given the Dodgers half of their expected return on investment — until now.

The Padres scored their first six runs against Dustin May, who finished five innings. He took six pitches to get through the fourth and stranded a runner at second in the fifth. The Padres went down in order against Anthony Banda in the next two innings.

Manager Dave Roberts called the 2024 NLDS "the real World Series", after the Dodgers went on to beat both the Mets and the Yankees pretty handily in the next two series. The 2025 rematch begins today.

Here’s all you need to know about the Dodgers vs. Padres game 3, TV channel, streaming options, starting pitchers, and more.

Gavin Sheets, Bogaerts and Jake Cronenworth hit successive one-out singles, but that is not what put the Padres up. Instead, there were two outs after the third of those singles, as Sheets was tagged out at home after being waved home from second on Bogaerts’ hit to center field.