(My Sportsbook) - The Los Angeles Dodgers have wasted little time picking up right where they left off last season. The defending National League West champions will vie for a sixth consecutive victory when the Colorado Rockies invade Dodger Stadium tonight for the opener of a three-game series between the divisional foes.

The Dodgers won 19 of their final 27 regular-season tests to edge Arizona for the 2008 NL West crown, then carried that momentum to a surprising three-game sweep of the 97-win Chicago Cubs in last October's NL Division Series. This year's club has looked like a World Series contender as well in the early going, as Los Angeles has won seven of its first 10 contests and outscored the opposition by a 37-10 margin during its current win streak.

Los Angeles opened its 2009 home schedule in fine fashion as well, sweeping the rival San Francisco Giants in three games capped by Thursday's 7-2 triumph. Casey Blake and Doug Mientkiewicz both knocked in two runs to help back a second straight solid start out of Dodgers' hurler Eric Stults.

Stults (2-0), called up from Triple-A Albuquerque last week to fill in for an injured Hiroki Kuroda, held the Giants to two runs on five hits over five innings to win for the second time in six days.

Rafael Furcal added a solo homer in Thursday's decision and Matt Kemp extended his hitting streak with an RBI triple in the second inning. Kemp has hit safely in all 10 of Los Angeles' games this season and is batting .371 (13- for-35) over that stretch.

The Dodgers, who put up 23 runs in their three wins over the hated Giants, will try to provide some more offensive support tonight for scheduled starter Randy Wolf. The veteran lefty didn't need much help his last time out, however, as he limited San Diego to one run and just two hits over seven innings to lead his team to a 3-1 verdict over the Padres last Sunday.

Wolf, signed by the Dodgers as a free agent over the winter, has now won seven of his last 10 decisions dating back to last season and surrendered two runs or less in all but one of those victories.

The 32-year-old is 4-2 with a 4.50 earned run average over nine lifetime starts against Colorado and split a pair of decisions versus the Rockies while with San Diego last season. In those games, Wolf allowed a total of seven runs over 11 innings.

Colorado is in the midst of an eight-game road trip and started off the trek by splitting a pair of matchups with the powerful Cubs at Wrigley Field. Former Chicago pitcher Jason Marquis took care of his ex-team in Wednesday's finale, as the right-hander delivered seven outstanding innings to lead the Rockies to a 5-2 win.

Marquis (2-0), traded by Chicago to the Rockies over the winter, yielded just one run on five hits and a pair of walks to win his second straight start in a Colorado uniform. He helped his own cause at the plate as well, singling home a pair of runs in the second inning that staked his team to a 2-0 lead.

Seth Smith added a solo home run and Todd Helton went 2-for-5 with a run scored for the Rockies, who halted a three-game skid and improved to 4-4 on the young season.

The Cubs scored a run off Huston Street in the bottom of the ninth, but Jason Grilli bailed out the struggling closer by recording the final three outs and notch his second career save.

Jorge De La Rosa gets the call for Colorado in tonight's series opener and hopes to improve on a shaky first start of the season. Against Philadelphia last Saturday, the left-hander was tagged for five runs on six hits in 4 2/3 innings of an 8-4 loss to the defending world champions.

De La Rosa did win a career-best 10 games for the Rockies last season, but he did not fare well when facing the Dodgers. In three starts and a relief appearance against Los Angeles in 2008, the native Mexican went 0-3 with an 8.47 ERA and was reached for 17 runs (16 earned) over 17 innings.

The 28-year-old does have a career 3.27 ERA over four outings, including one start, at Dodger Stadium, however.

Los Angeles took 10 of the 18 meetings between these fellow NL West members last season, but the Rockies have won four of their last five games played at Dodger Stadium.