San Diego — Inevitably, Michael Fulmer’s outing against the Padres Friday night is going to get buried under the avalanche of angst that’s piling up around this baseball team right now. To get to it, you need to sift through a lot of rubble.
The release of Francisco Rodriguez, the seven-game losing streak, the trade chatter, the manager’s hot seat, the imponderable impotence of the offense — somewhere under all of that misery is a display of power pitching that’s worth exhumation and reexamination.
“He was really, really good,” catcher Alex Avila said.