Sometimes your starting pitcher gives you 6-7 solid innings and your relief gives you a clean 2-3 finishing innings. Sometimes your starter takes your team through the full 9 innings. And sometimes, like with the Padres today, 5 relievers show up to do all the pitching for you.
With no starter penned to take the mound today, the task was first handed to Matt Strahm. Strahm had a solid May, throwing just over 11 innings and giving up 4 earned runs, never going over 2 innings. Today, he threw just 2 1⁄3 innings, allowing only a first-pitch 1-out solo HR in the first inning and 2 hits total, striking out two.