The Dodgers look to snap a three-game losing streak Tuesday night as they face the Astros in the second game of a three-game set at Minute Main Park in Houston. Chad BiIlingsley faces J.A. Happ in tonight's contest. The Dodgers' lineup is without Andre Ethier and Rod Barajas for the second straight game.
Ethier didn't start Monday night, but delivered a go-ahead RBI single in the seventh inning in a game eventually won by Houston in the ninth inning. Jerry Sands, who has started 22 games in left field and two games at first base this season, gets his first career start in right field tonight, with Jay Gibbons moving to left, the opposite defensive alignment of Monday. Sands did finish last night's game in right field. Here are tonight's starting lineups:
Dodgers (21-28)
Furcal SS
Carroll 2B
Loney 1B
Kemp CF
Sands RF
Navarro C
Gibbons LF
Miles 3B
Billingsley P
Astros (18-30)
Bourn CF
Barmes SS
Pence RF
Lee LF
Wallace 1B
Johnson 3B
Hall 2B
Quintero C
Happ P
Tonight's 5:05 p.m. PDT game will be televised by KCAL. For more news and information on the Dodgers, or on tonight's game, be sure to read the SB Nation blog True Blue LA.