Andrew Mulligan Green was hired as the 19th manager in Padres history in October 2015. The 38-year-old skipper, the second-youngest in baseball, might have been looking for a few mulligans when his rebuilding Padres laid not one, not two, but three eggs to start his managerial career.
The third straight shutout loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers — a 7-0 blanking on this date, April 6, in 2016 — extended the Padres’ scoreless inning streak to a major league record 27 innings to start a season. The 1943 St. Louis Cardinals owned the previous record of futility at 26 straight scoreless innings to start that year, and the ever-quick Green knew history was at least on his side.