The Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres flashed playoff intensity in their long-awaited first two series of the season and went face-to-face, quite literally, after 10 batters were hit during a stretch the Dodgers owned on the scoreboard.

Amid baseball’s most heated rivalry, the benches cleared Thursday night at Dodger Stadium after San Diego Padres manager Mike Shildt and his Los Angeles Dodgers counterpart, Dave Roberts, confronted each other moments after Padres star Fernando Tatis Jr.

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.

Preview the June 19 matchup between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres with odds over/under, game spread, betting lines and more.

Xander Bogaerts had a second-inning home run among his four hits and the visiting San Diego Padres earned a 5-3 victory Thursday over the Los Angeles Dodgers to avoid a four-game sweep in a series where tempers reached a boiling point.