(Best E Casino) - The Los Angeles Dodgers are on a roll and will try stay hot on their current homestand, as they welcome the San Francisco Giants to town for three games at Chavez Ravine.

Los Angeles just swept the Washington Nationals in three games over the weekend to stay one game behind the Arizona Diamondbacks in the NL West standings. In Sunday's 2-0 victory in the series finale, James Loney homered and Russell Martin went 2-for-3 with an RBI in LA's seventh win in 10 tries.

Starter Clayton Kershaw gave up just four hits over six-plus innings of work while fanning five batters and walking only one to pick up his first major league win. Jonathan Broxton tossed a perfect ninth to pick up his fourth save of the season. The Dodgers are perfect so far on their current homestand and 28-24 as the host this season.

Hiroki Kuroda gets the call for the Dodgers this evening, and is 5-7 with a 3.98 earned run average in 19 starts. The first-year hurler was 2-0 in four starts before losing at Colorado on July 3, when he allowed five runs and nine hits in six innings of a 5-3 setback. Kuroda has given up three or more runs in three consecutive trips to the hill.

The right-hander, who is 3-0 at home this season, has never faced the NL West- rival Giants.

San Francisco was recently swept in three games by the division-foe Arizona Diamondbacks over the weekend, suffering a 7-2 defeat in Sunday's series finale at AT&T Park. Fred Lewis had four hits, including two doubles, while John Bowker drove in a run for San Francisco, which has been swept twice since the All-Star break.

Barry Zito absorbed the loss for the Giants and was roughed up for six runs on six hits and five walks in five innings. San Francisco will open a six-game road trip on Monday and is 23-27 away from the bay in 2008.

Kevin Correia will try to pitch himself and the Giants back into the win column tonight, as he sports a miserable 1-5 record and a 5.71 ERA in 12 games (11 starts) this season. Correia hasn't won since April 10 versus St. Louis, dropping four straight decisions in 10 trips to the mound since then.

Correia has recorded five straight no-decisions, including a July 23 performance versus the Nationals. He yielded four runs -- three earned -- on 12 hits through 5 2/3 innings of his team's 6-4 victory. The right-hander is 2-1 with a 5.06 earned run average in 16 career games, three starts, against the Dodgers.

LA leads the 2008 season series with the Giants by a 4-2 count. It won two of three games over San Francisco at Dodger Stadium this season from March 31 - April 2.