ST. LOUIS CARDINALS (35-18) vs. LOS ANGELES DODGERS (31-22) 1. RHP Michael Wacha (7-1, 2.27) vs. RHP Carlos Frias (4-2, 4.29) June 4, 2015 | 7:10 p.m. PT | Dodger Stadium | Los Angeles, CA Game 54 | Home Game 29 (21-7) | Night Game 40 (24-15) TV: SNLA | Radio: AM 570/KTNQ 1020 AM 2. NL SHOWDOWN: The first-place Dodgers begin a seven-game homestand tonight with the first of four games against the St. Louis MATCHUP vs. CARDINALS st st Cardinals, who hold the best record in the Major Leagues at 35-18 Cardinals: 1 , NL Central (6.0 GA) Dodgers: 1 , NL West (2.0 GA) (.660). Following this series, the Dodgers will host the Arizona All-Time: LA leads series, 1,017-1,014-16 (150-141 at Dodger Stadium) 2015: LA trails, 1-2 (1-2 at Busch Stadium) Diamondbacks for three games next week, before hitting the road May 29 @ STL: L, 0-3 W: Lackey L: Bolsinger S: Rosenthal in San Diego (3) and Texas (2). May 30 @ STL: W, 5-1 W: Frias L: Wacha May 31@STL: L, 1-3 W: Martinez L: Anderson S: Rosenthal Los Angeles has the NL’s second-best winning JOC ROCK: Dodger center fielder Joc Pederson homered in his percentage at .585, behind only the Cardinals. The Dodgers’ fifth consecutive game, tying Matt Kemp (2010), Shawn Green 21-7 (.750) record at home is the second best in baseball, (2001) and Roy Campanella (1950) for the modern single-season trailing just St. Louis’ 22-7 mark (.759). franchise mark for consecutive games with a home run. The last player Highest Home Win Percentage – 2015 in the Majors to homer in six consecutive games was Baltimore’s Chris Davis from Sept. 26-Oct. 2, 2012. He’s the first rookie in St. Louis Cardinals .759 (22-7) franchise history to homer in five consecutive games and the first Los Angeles Dodgers .750 (21-7) MLB rookie to do so since Baltimore’s Caleb Joseph, Aug. 2-9, 2014. Minnesota Twins .731 (19-7) Prior to Pederson, the last Dodger rookie to homer in four consecutive New York Mets .724 (21-8) games was Bill Sudakis, Aug. 15-19, 1969. According to the Elias Kansas City Royals .692 (18-8) Sports Bureau, Pederson is just the second player in the modern era to post multiple four-game homer streaks in his rookie campaign, joining The Dodgers have flashed an enormous amount of power at Minnesota’s Jimmie Hall, who accomplished the feat in 1963. His 17 home this season, leading the NL with 39 homers: home runs are tied with Giancalro Stanton for second in the NL, one behind Bryce Harper, and are the most ever by a Dodger through the Dodgers’ Power at Home, w/ MLB Ranks – 2015 first 71 games of their career. Pederson also ranks among the NL’s th rd AB/HR 23.56 (919/39, 4th) best in on-base percentage (.393, 9 ), walks (35, 3 ), slugging th th HR/Game 1.39 (39/28, 4th) percentage (.606, 4 ) and OPS (.998, 5 ). st Slugging Pct .477 (438/919, 1 ) Pederson ranks second in the Majors in at-bats per home run, Total Bases/Game 15.64 (438/28, 3rd) st trailing just Harper (9.67): Extra-Base Hits/Game 3.79 (106/28, 1 ) Rookies, Lowest AB/HR in Season – All-Time SOURCE: STATS, LLC (minimum 3.1 PA/team G) Los Angeles has homered in six consecutive games at Season Player, Team AB/HR Dodger Stadium, the third-longest active streak in Major 2015 Joc Pederson, LAD 10.59 (180/17) League Baseball. 1987 Mark McGwire, Oak 11.37 The Dodgers hit one homer yesterday and are tied with the 1994 Bob Hamelin, KC 13.00 Astros for the most home runs in baseball with 74. The club 1987 Matt Nokes, Det 14.41 SOURCE: STATS, LLC is on pace to set a Los Angeles record with its Major League- leading .453 slugging percentage, while also topping the big Dodger fans need to start voting and voting fast, as Pederson leagues with a .340 on-base percentage. somehow only ranks 10th among NL outfielders in balloting for the 86th All-Star Game, to be played on July 14 in THAT’S SOME GOOD NEWS!: It was announced earlier today, Cincinnati. Fans can vote online or on their mobile device up that SportsNet LA, the exclusive 24/7 TV network of the Los Angeles to 35 times by going to MLB.com or Dodgers.com. Balloting Dodgers, will be available to Charter customers starting Tuesday, June ends July 2nd at 11:59 p.m. 9. SportsNet LA will be available on Charter Spectrum TV Select, Charter’s most widely subscribed to tier of service, on channel 44 SD/ In addition to voting for Pederson, Dodger fans need to vote 789 HD in the Los Angeles area, channel 44 SD / 773 HD in San Luis heavily for Adrian Gonzalez, who currently leads all NL Obispo, and channel 44 SD in Porterville. SportsNet LA’s Spanish- first basemen, but has seen his lead narrow during the last language game telecasts as well as its Korean-language Secondary week. Others in need of a boost include Howie Kendrick Audio Programming (SAP) will also be made available to Charter (currently in 4th place) and Yasmani Grandal (5th). customers. Congratulations are in order to Dodger manager Don BOBBLE CLOSER: Tonight, the first 40,000 fans in attendance will Mattingly, who today was officially named to Bruce receive a Kenley Jansen bobblehead, presented by State Farm. Since Bochy’s staff for the All-Star Game in Cincinnati. Mattingly was also on Joe Torre’s AL All-Star staff in 2004. coming off the disabled list on May 15, Jansen has been nearly unhittable, firing 6.0 scoreless innings and limiting the opposition to GOING GONZO: Adrian Gonzalez belted his Major League- just one hit (1-for-20) with x strikeouts. Jansen has not allowed a run leading 20th double last night and ranks among the NL’s best in runs in his last 15 appearances (15.0 IP) dating to Sept. 5, 2014. (36, T-4th), home runs (11, 9th), batting average (.333, T-4th), on-base percentage (.411, 5th) and slugging percentage (.609, 3rd). Jansen missed last night’s game as he was feeling under the weather and will be re-evaluated this afternoon. Gonzalez is batting .378 (14-for-37) with runners in scoring position and is one of three Dodgers hitting at least .340 with READY TO ROLL: Two Dodgers will see their first game action in RISP, joining Yasmani Grandal (.379, 11-for-29) and quite awhile tonight as outfielder Yasiel Puig and infielder Hector Howie Kendrick (.340, 16-for-47). Olivera are slated to play in minor league games. Puig, who is st working his way back from a left hamstring strain, is scheduled to play THE FINEST IN RUN PREVENTION: Today is the 51 7.0 innings for Single-A Rancho Cucamonga tonight in Lancaster. anniversary of Sandy Koufax’s third no-hitter, his only one on the Olivera will make his United States’ professional debut this evening, road, as he struck out 12 Philadelphia hitters in a 3-0 win on June 4, playing third base, as Double-A Tulsa hosts Midland at 5:05 p.m. PT. 1964. This date also marks the anniversary of Koufax, Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella having their numbers retired at Dodger Stadium, June 4, 1972 and Ramon Martinez’s 18-strikeout game in 1990. UPCOMING SCHEDULE Date/Time/Opponent Probable Pitchers TV/Radio Fri., June 5, 7:10 p.m. vs. STL RHP Carlos Martinez (5-2, 3.13) vs. LHP Brett Anderson (2-3, 3.42) SNLA/AM 570/KTNQ 1020 AM Sat., June 6, 7:10 p.m. vs. STL RHP Jaime Garcia (1-2, 2.70) vs. LHP Clayton Kershaw (4-3, 3.73) SNLA/AM 570/KTNQ 1020 AM Sun., June 8, 5:08 p.m. vs. STL RHP Lance Lynn (4-4, 3.03) vs. RHP Zack Greinke (5-1, 1.97) ESPN/AM 570/KTNQ 1020 AM Tonight’s starter vs. St. Louis: RHP Carlos Frias (4-2, 4.29 ERA) YEAR TEAM W-L ERA G GS CG SHO IP H R ER HR BB SO 2007 DSL Dodgers 6-2 1.81 13 11 0 0 49.2 30 17 10 0 25 39 2008 GCL Dodgers 1-2 3.82 11 3 0 0 30.2 25 14 13 0 13 19 2009 AZL Dodgers 5-5 4.28 14 9 0 0 61.0 64 37 29 1 24 67 Ogden 0-1 3.52 2 0 0 0 7.2 10 6 3 0 4 6 2010 Ogden 2-6 7.78 13 8 0 0 39.1 45 38 34 7 21 43 2011 Rancho Cucamonga 1-1 6.19 12 0 0 0 16.0 17 13 11 3 17 11 2012 Rancho Cucamonga 0-1 12.71 3 1 0 0 5.2 9 8 8 0 8 5 Ogden 7-4 4.15 15 15 0 0 78.0 83 49 36 5 21 67 2013 Rancho Cucamonga 2-3 4.11 8 8 0 0 46.0 52 22 21 4 11 48 Great Lakes 5-3 2.63 12 12 0 0 68.1 66 26 20 3 23 49 Chattanooga 1-1 3.94 8 2 0 0 16.0 15 7 7 2 7 8 2014 Chattanooga 2-1 3.38 5 5 0 0 32.0 34 16 12 2 9 14 Albuquerque 8-4 5.01 16 15 2 0 91.2 114 57 51 4 21 65 LOS ANGELES 1-1 6.12 15 2 0 0 32.1 33 22 22 4 7 29 2015 Oklahoma City 2-0 2.84 3 2 0 0 12.2 18 6 4 2 0 15 LOS ANGELES 4-2 4.29 8 6 0 0 35.2 42 18 17 3 10 22 Totals Minors (9 Years) 42-34 4.20 135 91 2 0 554.2 582 316 259 33 204 456 MLB (2 Years) 5-3 5.16 23 8 0 0 68.0 75 40 39 7 17 51 NOTES: FRIAS’S 2015 GAME-BY-GAME Last pitched on Saturday at St.