The Padres are attempting to prevent a Petco Park Dodgers takeover. Tickets for Games 3 and Games 4 of the NLDS in San Diego were limited to individuals certain regions and notably excluded the five counties in the greater Los Angeles area.

Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman told reporters Thursday that Jack Flaherty will no longer take the ball in Game 1. Instead, the Dodgers will send rookie Yoshinobu Yamamoto to the bump on Saturday in order to have the 26-year-old available to pitch in a possible win-or-go-home Game 5.

The Dodgers will pitch Yoshinobu Yamamoto in Game 1 of the NLDS with Jack Flaherty in Game 2, reversing the order of their top two starters against the Padres.