When the Dodgers visit the Padres on Friday, it will be a matchup of two teams on opposite ends of the National League West spectrum. Once trailing the San Francisco Giants by 9 1/2 games, the Dodgers have rapidly made up ground, going into San Diego just four games out and fresh off of their first series sweep of 2014 against the Rockies, punctuated in electrifying fashion by Clayton Kershaw's no-hitter in Wednesday's finale.