Dodgers @ Angels

Who will WIN this matchup?

Los Angeles Dodgers (17-16)

@ Los Angeles Angels (14-17)

Starting Pitchers:

Kershaw (LAD): 4-3; 2.95 ERA

Bundy (LAA) 0-3; 4.00 ERA

Current odds:

Los Angeles Dodgers: (-145)

Los Angeles Angels: (+120)

• It took just five weeks into a long-awaited championship defense for a sense of urgency to surround the Los Angeles Dodgers. Hall of Fame-bound left-hander Clayton Kershaw is scheduled to make his first regular-season start on three days’ rest Saturday night when he’ll try to help the Dodgers stop a four-game skid in the middle game of the three-game Freeway Series against the host Los Angeles Angels in Anaheim, Calif. Kershaw (4-3, 2.95 ERA) is slated to oppose Angels right-hander Dylan Bundy (0-3, 4.00 ERA).

• Griffin Canning allowed one run over 5 2/3 innings and combined with Patrick Sandoval on an eight-hitter Friday night, and David Fletcher had three RBIs and Shohei Ohtani delivered a pair of RBI doubles as the Angels cruised to a 9-2 victory.

• The Dodgers are 4-14 since racing to a 13-2 start following their first World Series championship since 1988.

• The four-game losing streak began with a 7-1 defeat in the opener of a doubleheader against the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday afternoon, when Kershaw gave up four runs in just one inning — the shortest outing of his 391 starts (361 regular season, 30 playoffs).

• Trevor Bauer, who has expressed an interest in starting every fourth day, followed Kershaw in the nightcap. But Bauer threw 90 pitches in 4 1/3 innings in the 4-3, nine-inning loss, so the Dodgers — who have only four healthy starters with right-hander Dustin May sidelined for the rest of the season due to an elbow injury that will require Tommy John surgery — chose to turn back to Kershaw.

• Four of Kershaw’s postseason starts have come on three days’ rest. He has a 3.16 ERA in those outings, which came in NL Division Series games from 2013 through 2016.

• The win Friday night snapped a five-game losing streak for the Angels, who were outscored 26-10 in the four-game series, all losses, against the Tampa Bay Rays this week.

• On Friday, though, the Angels had a pair of four-run innings on their way to scoring more than four runs for just the second time in nine games.

• Bundy took the loss in his most recent start last Sunday, when he allowed two runs over six innings as the Angels fell to the Seattle Mariners, 2-0.

• Kershaw is 7-2 with a 2.45 ERA in 13 career starts against the Angels. Bundy is 0-1 with a 2.25 ERA in two games (one start) against the Dodgers.