Los Angeles Dodgers vs Arizona Diamondbacks: Tonight marks the start of a new “Hollywood-Manny” era, as the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks will play 3 more games in this NL West showdown from Dodgers Stadium. Just 2 games separate these teams in the standings, as the LA Dodgers were able to acquire slugger Manny Ramirez on a last minute trade with the Boston Red Sox.

Game 1 was a nail-bitter, but the Diamondbacks were able to inch out a win by the closest of margins (2-1). Game 2 of this series has a scheduled starting time of 7:40 PM PT (10:40 PM ET), and can be seen on FSN-PRIME HD.

At SBGglobal.com, the Los Angeles Dodgers are betting odds favorites by -115 over the Arizona Diamondbacks (-105).

Tonight, we will have a terrific pitching match up between two lefties, one from the past, and the other from the future; a 40-year-old (Randy Johnson) meets a 20-year-old (Clayton Kershaw).

But all of that takes a backset, as it is all about Manny Ramirez. Ramirez will be making his debut with the Dodgers, facing his old friend, the ex-Yankee (LHP) Randy Johnson (8-7, 4.58 ERA).

Manny and Randy have faced each other a total of 45 times thought their careers. Manny has gotten the best of the future Hall of Famer with 5 homeruns, and 17 RBI. The last time these two faced each other was last season, when twice the “Big Unit” walked Manny. Afterwards, Johnson admitted to have been pitching around the Dominican slugger.

Joe Torre and the Dodgers will have the 20-year-old rookie, (LHP) Clayton Kershaw (1-3, 4.53 ERA), take the hill as they try to even out this series at 1 game apiece. The OVER/UNDER in this historic contest between the Arizona D-Backs vs. the LA Dodgers is 7.5 total runs.

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