LOS ANGELES — For the first time, I turned off Sunset Blvd. onto Vin Scully Ave. Then, I walked into the Vin Scully press box.

I don’t know who this Scully cat is, but they seem to like him down here.

It’s Madison Bumgarner vs. Clayton Kershaw for the 10th time Friday night. ESPN Stats had an interesting item, saying the last time a Dodger and Giants squared off nine times as Bum and Kershaw have were Doug Rau and Jim Barr way back when.

The news today is that right-hander Derek Law is being promoted from Triple-A Sacramento to replace Sergio Romo on the roster. Law, 25, was a big-time prospect who nearly made the team out of spring training in 2014. He was sure to be a factor in what became a championship season until he was saddle with Tommy John surgery.

Law will be making his major-league debut.

He has an interesting family blood line. His father, Joe, was in a major-league uniform for one game with the A’s. I wrote about it in this spring training story for 2014. Check it out. You can learn a little about Derek as well, especially the big pitch he has.

The Giants are going with an interesting lineup, largely injury-created. Both Brandon Crawford (hip flexor) and Ehire Adrianza (bruised foot) are out. Denard Span is getting a rest against Kershaw, I presume. Adrianza homered against Kershaw in San Francisco last week. I’m sure manager Bruce Bochy would have liked to play him at short.

Check out the full lineup at the bottom of this post.

The Dodgers ostensibly will be stronger than last weekend with catcher Yasmani Grandal and second baseman Howie Kendrick coming off the disabled list. The Giants also Sunday must face new Japanese pitcher Kenta Maeda, who baffled the Padres and Diamondbacks over six shutout innings apiece.

The Dodgers started the season with 11 players on the disabled list, most notably starters Brett Anderson (back surgery) and Brandon McCarthy (Tommy John surgery) and outfielder Andre Ethier (broken leg).

The Giants might be catching the Dodgers at a good time, facing them seven times over the first two weeks while they are ailing, although Joe Panik disputed that with an analogy from 2015.

"Last year we had all these guys on the disabled list and still played well against them at home," Panik said. "When you play the Dodgers it's always a good game. No matter how many guys they have on the DL, we still have to hit and we still have to play the game."

The Giants won their first seven home games against the Dodgers last year before losing two of the last three. They were 3-6 in Los Angeles.

LINEUP

GIANTS

Pagan LF

Panik 2B

Posey C

Pence RF

Belt 1B

Duffy 3B

Tomlinson SS

Bumgarner P

Blanco CF

Henry Schulman is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: hschulman@sfchronicle.com. Twitter: @hankschulman.