Dodgers Schedule: Ten Games and One Quick Road Trip

The next ten games, laid flat

The four Milwaukee times agree across the current CBS Sports schedule and StatMuse calendar: 10:10 p.m. Eastern on Thursday and Friday, 7:15 Saturday, then 4:10 Sunday. Subtract three hours for Los Angeles. The three Colorado games are all listed at 8:40 p.m. Eastern, or 5:40 Pacific. That repetition is a small mercy.

Milwaukee turns the weekend clock backward

Thursday and Friday are conventional West Coast night games. Saturday slides nearly three hours earlier. Sunday moves another three hours and five minutes toward lunch. The series therefore gets easier for an Eastern viewer with each passing day, from a 10:10 p.m. first pitch to a 4:10 p.m. one. It also gives a local family three distinct versions of a ballpark visit: night lights, late-afternoon shadows and a Sunday matinee.

The gates have their own cheerful subplot. The club's promotional calendar lists a Clayton Kershaw bobblehead for Friday, August 14, followed by a Reggie Smith "Legends of Dodger Baseball" bobblehead on Saturday, August 15. The same page says stadium-wide giveaways are limited to one item per person with a valid ticket and are available while supplies last. The Dodgers' July 20 promotional release sets the usual giveaway quantity at the first 40,000 ticketed fans unless another number is posted. Tiny Kershaw on Friday, tiny Smith on Saturday: the schedule has found room for a two-day shelf-decoration festival.

Colorado is the entire road trip

After Sunday's early finish, Los Angeles plays Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at Colorado. Each game begins at 5:40 p.m. Pacific, according to both DailyDodgers' live schedule and CBS. There is no start-time shuffle to memorize and no second road city. The published calendar then leaves Thursday, August 20, empty before Pittsburgh arrives in Los Angeles on Friday.

That off day matters to the ordinary humans following along. Seven games in seven days can make the week feel like one continuous scorebug. A blank Thursday creates a clean seam between series. It is the evening for groceries, a movie, or remembering that the remote has buttons unrelated to baseball.

Pittsburgh brings one corrected calendar square

The Pittsburgh set follows the familiar Friday-to-Sunday arc, but Saturday deserves a fresh look. DailyDodgers still showed 4:15 p.m. Pacific when checked on August 13. The current Dodgers schedule and CBS schedule instead showed 6:10 p.m. Pacific for August 22, and this guide uses that newer time. The disagreement is exactly why live schedules outrank an old calendar entry. Friday remains 7:10 p.m.; Sunday is 1:10 p.m.

There is another collectible waiting in that series. The official promotion page assigns a Shohei Ohtani "Starter Series" bobblehead to Saturday, August 22 and notes a first-54,000-fans allotment for that item. Nobody needs a bobblehead to enjoy a game, obviously. Still, a weekend in which the clock changes and the shelf gains a tiny pitcher or hitter has more personality than a bare grid of dates.

The Dodgers arrive with three fresh wins

Los Angeles enters the Milwaukee opener after sweeping Kansas City at home. The official game pages record a 6-5 win on August 10, a 5-4 win on August 11 and a 4-2 win on August 12. DailyDodgers' results table puts the club at 73-48 after the third game. That record is a snapshot, not a promise about the next ten. It does make Thursday feel like a continuation rather than a cold restart.

A calendar with a nice folding trick

Look only at the two Friday-through-Sunday bookends and all six games are in Los Angeles. The Milwaukee weekend moves from 7:10 to 4:15 to 1:10. The Pittsburgh weekend goes from 7:10 to 6:10 to 1:10. Between them sit three identical 5:40 starts in Colorado and that open Thursday. Even the changing hours form recognizable groups, which is kinder than making a fan consult the calendar during every seventh-inning stretch.

The simplest way to remember this run is four, three, breathe, three. Four Brewers games in Los Angeles. Three Rockies games in Colorado. One open Thursday. Three Pirates games back home. The first weekend walks backward from 7:10 at night to 1:10 in the afternoon; the road portion holds perfectly still at 5:40. Baseball schedules are usually clutter. This one folds neatly enough to fit in a pocket.