BOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Dodgers are looking to end their four-game home slide with a win against the Milwaukee Brewers. Los Angeles is 58-40 overall and 33-18 in home games. The Dodgers have hit 145 total home runs to lead the NL.

Has Dodgers catcher Will Smith already started recruiting Tigers ace Tarik Skubal? He said the Dodgers want "all the best names."

Entering the All-Star break, Will Smith is a distant leader in the NL batting race, sporting a .323 mark that outpaces the next closest qualified hitter by a whopping 26 points.

He’s giving 100 percent every time he goes out there' Smith said of a player who hates hitting in Los Angeles.

Quinn Priester is getting stronger with each start. His best start so far may have come on Friday night, when he took the mound against the Dodgers. He struck out 10 against the powerful Dodgers’ lineup, and Caleb Durbin drove in two runs to back him up. The result was a 2-0 shutout of the Dodgers and the Brewers’ eighth straight win.

Smith is having a career year at the plate – no one in baseball has been better with runners in scoring position – while the Dodgers limit his starts to avoid another second-half decline.

Smith’s importance to the offense has raised legitimate concerns about his workload, specifically about how much the Dodgers should rest him. Smith caught 108 games last year, 115 the year ...

Smith has been pegged as the Dodgers’ franchise catcher ever since. The club made that permanent Wednesday, inking the 28-year-old Smith to the longest contract ever given to a catcher.

What he’s doing is Buster Posey-ish, Joe Mauer-ish,” Freddie Freeman said. “When you’re leading the league in hitting and you’re catching, it’s really hard to do. Jack Harris at the Los Angeles Times has more on Smith and his stellar performance this season.