Wonder how to gauge what 23-year-old Chris Paddack did Wednesday to the formerly white-hot Seattle Mariners, a team that has punished baseballs like a WWE wrestler playing whack-a-mole at a mall arcade?
Start at the Petco Park visitors’ clubhouse locker of Felix Hernandez, a Cy Young winner and All-Star six times over who has faced more than 11,000 hitters in nearly 2,700 big-league innings during 15 seasons.
Hernandez has won 169 career games.
Paddack has won one … against Hernandez, a 1-0 gem that left the person who passed some guy named Don Drysdale for 36th on baseball’s all-time strikeout list tipping his postgame cap.