![]() ![]() Regular JoeĪfter a late start to the seasons and some starts and stops along the way, Joe Musgrove last night looked and felt like himself for the first time this season. If you missed yesterday’s news, I wrote ( here) on the expectation that the teams will play each other in Seoul in March to open the ’24 MLB season. But you know what we’ll find out next season? What the makeup of a crowd for a Padres-Dodgers series is like in South Korea. But where the others had been unquestionably for the home team, this one was made up largely of Dodgers fans. Yesterday’s announced crowd of 43,994 comprised the season’s 13 th sellout at Petco Park. But that doesn’t make it any less embarrassing to folks watching in other parts of the country that San Diego was back in blue.) We know people from Los Angeles live for their excursions to San Diego, those days they can escape their awful existences and pretend they live somewhere decent for just a few hours. (We might understand why it is this way every so often. Home was a somewhat ironic word to use last night.Īfter an impressive two days in which Padres fans outnumbered Dodgers fans at least three-to-one and probably more like four-to-one on Friday and Saturday, what a national audience saw on ESPN last night was a blue hue. “We had a chance to, just couldn’t finish it off.” “We would have loved to take the first series, especially here at home,” Melvin said. The teams play 10 more times this season, including this weekend in Los Angeles. This weekend ran the regular season futility streak to 10 series, during which the Padres are 6-25 against the Dodgers. So the particulars involved in the Padres winning 5-2 on Friday, losing 2-1 on Saturday and dropping yesterday’s game in extra innings don’t really matter.Īs I wrote earlier in the week, after the Padres won the series opener, what matters is October.Īnd last October remains the Padres’ only series victory over the Dodgers since 2021. That’s the only way to be measured against the best. The Padres and their $245 million payroll are beyond trying to measure up to the Dodgers, as was the case for the past decade-plus. Trying to glean too much from this series probably requires a bit of a reach. “It was a very close game pretty much the whole series, very tight,” Padres shortstop Xander Bogaerts said. Last night was the first time this season the Padres lost in 18 games in which they have led after eight innings. That story focuses on the bullpen being at full strength and coming oh-so-close to securing a different outcome. You can read about the Padres’ 5-2 loss in 10 innings in Jeff Sanders’ game story ( here). ![]()
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