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(Sports Network) - San Diego starting pitcher Greg Maddux will try to take the next step in his quest for 350 career victories this afternoon, as he toes the rubber for the Padres' finale of a three-game set against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Chavez Ravine.

After getting a no decision in his first start of the year on April 2, Maddux picked up his first win of the season -- and 348th of his career -- on Monday in a test against the Giants. The righty, who turns 42 on Monday, gave up just one run and three hits over seven innings with two walks and five strikeouts.

An eight-time All-Star and four-time Cy Young Award winner, Maddux is ninth on the all-time wins list, six shy of eighth-place Roger Clemens.

Maddux has made 34 career starts against the Dodgers and has fared well against them. He is 15-8 with a 2.94 earned run average in that span, with five complete games and three shutouts. Maddux, though, had a 2-1 mark and 5.40 ERA in three starts against Los Angeles last year.

Los Angeles' Chad Billingsley will try to rebound from a poor first start on Tuesday when he takes the mound today. After making two relief outings for LA, Billingsley started against Arizona and was tagged for five runs (4 earned) on five hits and three walks over just 2 1/3 innings of a 10-5 setback. That raised the right-hander's ERA to 9.64 on the season.

The 23-year-old has faced the Padres 10 times in his career, six of those starts, and is 4-1 with a solid 2.08 ERA against them. He was very good against San Diego last year, going 4-0 with a 1.05 ERA in six games (3 starts).

Billingsley will hope for the same offensive support Derek Lowe got on Saturday in an 11-2 win over the Padres. Lowe (1-0) helped his own cause, as he tossed eight solid innings and drove in a career-high three runs. He scattered four hits and allowed one run while striking out six.

Andre Ethier fell a triple shy of the cycle for Los Angeles, finishing 3-for-5 with three runs scored and two RBI. James Loney was a perfect 3-for-3 and walked twice, while Blake DeWitt doubled twice and knocked in a pair of runs as the Dodgers snapped a four-game losing streak.

Loney, beginning his first full year as the Dodgers' everyday first baseman, has a hit in all 11 games this season and is batting .400. He has a hit in both of his career at-bats against Maddux, with three RBI.

Loney is helping to offset the struggles by first-year Dodger Andruw Jones, who has just four hits in 38 at-bats (.105) this season. Jones has three hits in eight at-bats (.375) versus Maddux, his former teammate in Atlanta.

Chris Young (1-1) was touched for seven runs -- six earned -- on seven hits over three-plus innings for San Diego in Saturday's setback. Young walked four and fanned two. Wilfredo Ledezma gave up three runs -- two earned -- on four hits in three innings of relief.

Adrian Gonzalez drove in the lone run for the Padres, who were limited to only four hits while losing for the third time in four games.

Los Angeles took two of three from the Padres earlier in the year, but San Diego is 25-16 in the series since the start of the 2006 season, including a 12-8 mark at Chavez Ravine in that time.