LOS ANGELES (Interstat) — The San Diego Padres will visit the Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, at Dodger Stadium, continuing a late-season National League West series.

San Diego enters 87-70. Los Angeles is 97-60. The Padres are expected to start Nick Pivetta, who owns a 3-2 record. The Dodgers are expected to counter with Tyler Glasnow, who is 5-1. The forecast calls for 72 degrees at game time.

San Diego won 4-1 on Wednesday, Sept. 23, after the Dodgers took a 7-0 decision on Tuesday, Sept. 22. Los Angeles leads the season series 7-3. In Tuesday’s game, Kyle Hurt pitched two scoreless innings with two strikeouts for the Dodgers, while Tommy Edman homered and drove in two runs. Wandy Peralta worked two innings for San Diego, allowing one earned run with one strikeout. Griffin Canning added two innings with one earned run, two walks and two strikeouts, and Michael King allowed five earned runs over four innings.

Wandy Peralta is San Diego’s player to watch. He has pitched 1 1/3 scoreless innings against Miami on Sept. 18, 1 1/3 scoreless innings at San Francisco on Sept. 13, and two scoreless innings with two strikeouts against Washington on Sept. 9. He also pitched a scoreless inning Aug. 28 at Tampa Bay. On Sept. 15 at Colorado, he allowed four earned runs in two-thirds of an inning, and on Sept. 2 at Cincinnati he gave up one earned run in 1 1/3 innings.

Kyle Hurt is Los Angeles’s player to watch. He followed Tuesday’s two-inning, two-strikeout outing with earlier scoreless appearances against Washington on Sept. 4 and at Detroit on Aug. 30. Against Washington, he recorded two outs with one strikeout. At Detroit, he struck out one in a hitless inning.

San Diego has won three of its last four games, including three straight wins over Miami before Tuesday’s loss. Los Angeles has won four straight. The Dodgers had won three straight against San Francisco before Tuesday’s victory over San Diego, including 10-4, 8-2 and 3-1 home wins.

After this game, San Diego will host Arizona for three games beginning Friday, Sept. 25. Los Angeles will visit San Francisco for three games starting Friday. Both teams are in the final week of the regular season.

Interstat’s game simulator projects a final score of San Diego 9, Los Angeles 8. Interstat’s ELO system gives the Dodgers a 59.7 percent probability to win. Los Angeles has been installed as the pregame favorite with a spread of -1.5, and the over/under is 7.5.