Last night’s 6-4 loss to the Dodgers was, in a word, stinky.
It’s rough to watch a team battle back against the best outfit in the NL, only to drop a decision in extras.
What’s worse is the sinking feeling, earned and developed over a hard-luck season, that, in the end, the Padres were destined to lose last night’s game through some combination of mistakes. After all, that’s the only thing they’ve done with consistency across 132 games this year.
Sure enough, a late-inning defensive mistake from rookie Luis Urias was again the culprit in a gut-wrenching loss to L.