BOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Dodgers meet the Cincinnati Reds with a 1-0 series lead. Cincinnati has a 56-51 record overall and a 31-23 record in home games. The Reds are seventh in the NL with 109 total home runs, averaging one per game.

The right-hander has a 6.26 ERA in six games this season with Cincinnati to go along with 45 strikeouts. Despite the high ERA, Burns has pitched better than that number shows. He gave up five runs and recorded just one out against the Red Sox when he was thought to be tipping his pitches.

The Reds did all their scoring in the first inning. Austin Hays and Gavin Lux had back-to-back RBI singles to drive in T.J. Friedl to get on the scoreboard, and then Matt McLain for an insurance run, respectively.

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Los Angels won the series opener, 5-2, to break a short two-game losing streak. The Dodgers are 4-6 over the last 10 games since the All-Star break and won one of three series. The loss for the Reds snapped a four-game winning streak and 6-4 after the break.

Tyler Stephenson homered and drove in three runs and Nick Martinez struck out five in five innings as the Cincinnati Reds beat the Tampa Bay Rays 7-2 on Friday night.

Despite the Reds' loss, Glasnow will face a hot team when he makes his ninth start of the season. The Dodgers snapped Cincinnati's four-game winning streak on Monday, but the Reds remain in the thick of the National League wild-card race.

The LA Dodgers and Cincinnati Reds battle Monday, as they swing into a 3-game series on the north bank of the Ohio River.

Cincinnati Reds pitcher Scott Barlow (58) throws a pitch in the sixth inning of a MLB game between the Cincinnati Reds and Colorado Rockies, Sunday, July 13, 2025, at Great American Ball Park in Downtown Cincinnati. Reds won 4-2. / Frank Bowen IV/The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images