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The Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres wrote the latest section successful their rivalry erstwhile the dugouts cleared aft Fernando Tatis Jr. was deed by a transportation past week.
Padres manager Mike Shildt stormed retired of the dugout and started yelling toward the Dodgers dugout, prompting Dodgers manager Dave Roberts to face Shildt. The 2 managers were chemoreceptor to chemoreceptor for a infinitesimal earlier being separated.
Baseball Hall of Famer Trevor Hoffman participated successful the rivalry arsenic a subordinate of the Padres for astir 16 seasons. Hoffman works arsenic a elder advisor to shot operations with the Padres.
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San Diego Padres manager Mike Shildt, center, and Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts outcry astatine each different aft the Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr. was deed by a transportation during the ninth inning June 19, 2025, successful Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Hoffman, 57, talked to Fox News Digital astir however the rivalry betwixt the Dodgers and Padres has an "old-school feel."
"(The benches clearing is) an hold to however heated this rivalry has become. It’s truly a measuring instrumentality of wherever your squad is at. It’s passionate, guys attraction astir winning games connected some sides and sometimes these things happen," Hoffman told Fox News Digital.
"It’s a small spot of an old-school feel, and I cognize determination are rules successful spot to effort and curtail immoderate things similar this going on. But erstwhile you are playing high-level baseball, and you are trying to triumph ballgames, these things volition hap and, honestly, I deliberation it’s bully for the game."
The Dodgers and Padres person matched up successful the playoffs successful 3 of the past 5 postseasons. The Dodgers swept the Padres 3-0 successful the 2020 NLDS en way to a World Series title.
San Diego Padres erstwhile person Trevor Hoffman throws retired the archetypal transportation earlier the San Diego Padres' location opener against the San Francisco Giants April 5, 2011, successful San Diego. (Christopher Hanewinckel/USA Today Sports)
In the 2022 NLDS, the Padres took down the Dodgers successful 4 games to beforehand to the NLCS. In the 2024 NLDS, the Padres held a 2-1 bid pb and pushed the Dodgers to the brink, but the Dodgers rallied to determination connected and triumph different World Series.
The 2 teams person played 7 regular-season games this season, and the Dodgers person won five. In those 7 games, Tatis had been deed by a transportation 3 times.
Twice aft Tatis was drilled, the Padres pitchers deed the Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani with a transportation successful presumed retaliation.
"It’s been a fewer excessively galore times (Tatis had been hit), and erstwhile it’s your prima player, astatine immoderate constituent successful time, you protect," Hoffman said.
"And determination are different aspects to the crippled erstwhile you consciousness similar idiosyncratic is stealing signs successful a spot oregon idiosyncratic goes hard into a basal that you are going to constabulary the game. But determination are rules successful spot that effort and forestall that benignant of happening from happening."
San Diego Padres manager Mike Shildt, center, and Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts outcry astatine each different aft the Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr. was deed by a transportation during the ninth inning June 19, 2025, successful Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Hoffman said the bench-clearing incidental betwixt the 2 clubs tin galvanize a team.
"You don’t privation a feline successful your ain azygous to consciousness similar you are getting taken vantage of, and you surely consciousness arsenic if you are getting attacked, and I’m definite that some sides did," Hoffman said.
"You usage it arsenic substance to benignant of galvanize your side. Hopefully, that vigor stays with some shot clubs and they proceed to play bully baseball."
Hoffman said to beryllium successful, a pitcher has to transportation inside, but you person to cognize however to bash it.
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Hall of Famer Trevor Hoffman is introduced during the Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremonial astatine Clark Sports Center July 24, 2022, successful Cooperstown, N.Y. (Gregory Fisher/USA Today Sports)
"You person to transportation successful to beryllium palmy successful this game. It’s conscionable you person to larn however to transportation in. You can’t fto immoderate things get distant from you, particularly up supra the shoulders," Hoffman said.
The Dodgers are 48-31 and pb the NL West by 3½ games implicit the second-place San Francisco Giants. The Padres are 42-26 and are 5½ games down the Dodgers.
The adjacent clip the 2 NL West rivals volition look disconnected is Aug. 15-17 successful Los Angeles and Aug. 22-24 successful San Diego.
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