Tuesday’s game: Braves at Dodgers

Probable starting pitchers: Braves RH Julio Teheran (4-1, 3.91) vs. LH Clayton Kershaw (2-3, 4.32)

What's new: Kershaw, the three-time NL Cy Young award winner (2011, 2013, 2014) has been vulnerable this season and pedestrian fastball command in key situations might be the biggest reason why. He's getting hit at a .251 clip, which is 40 points higher than his career average of .211. Kershaw might be relieved he's not pitching against Madison Bumgarner. He's faced the Giants' ace three times already, and gave up a home run to Bumgarner in his last start - the first he's ever allowed to a pitcher. Freddie Freeman is 2-for-6 with a home run off Kershaw. The Braves failed to hit a homer during their recent six-game homestand, which is the first time they've done that in a homestand of six games or more since 1983 when they were playing in Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.

-Carroll Rogers