The empty hurt clearly lingered in Jorge López's eyes.
The 31-year-old pitcher stood to address the media fresh off the most embarrassing experience of his MLB career: An unhinged, glove-throwing tantrum on the field. An hour after the outburst, López, unshowered and unchanged in his white home Mets uniform, was still very much someone in distress. The raw emotion, a sense of unsteady unease, remained pasted on his face.
Earlier that afternoon, López, pitching for the ever-calamitous New York Mets, surrendered a back-breaking eighth-inning homer to Dodgers designated hitter and two-time MVP Shohei Ohtani.