Padres somehow gave Dodgers more fuel for trolling after loss to Cardinals

Welp, Dodgers Twitter has new content to laugh at. The Padres have enough problems already, but Monday, June 15 didn’t care. San Diego opened its series in St. Louis by getting completely flattened by Dustin May, annoying enough on its own. The Cardinals beat them 3-0. May threw the first complete game shutout of his career. And he even carried a perfect game into the seventh. He allowed one hit, and only needed 101 pitches to do it. 

It was a brutal game for the Padres, but May was a twist of the knife. He’s a former Dodger, and he made sure the Padres didn’t lose quietly. 

Padres offense made Dustin May look untouchable at the worst possible time

To be fair, May deserves some credit. He was pretty nasty. He kept San Diego’s hitters off balance all night. And at the same time, he only threw 49 of those 101 pitches in the strike zone. So we also can’t let the Padres off the hook, either.

A popular topic has been the Padres needing more from their stars. Well, Fernando Tatis Jr. at least broke up the perfect game with a walk to start the seventh. Manny Machado followed with the only Padres hit of the night. How’s that for a Padres rally? A walk, a single, and nothing.

May didn’t allow another baserunner after that. Added another blow by striking out the side in the eighth and finished the game by striking out Tatis in the ninth.

The optics, the Padres have to hate this. May spent years in the Dodgers system. He was one of their big pitching development success stories before injuries kept interrupting the flow. His career in LA came with all the usual Dodgers starter fluff: big stuff, big prospect value, big velo, and the injuries including the terrifying esophagus tear kind of dampened the mood around him.

Now he’s in St. Louis, and his former division rival were the team on the other end of his breakout night.

So, the Dodgers didn’t even have to do anything to continue tormenting the Padres.

They can’t even dump this one on Randy Knorr filling in for Craig Stammen who was serving his one-game suspension. That’s not a valid reason for the Padres to muster only one hit. The manager’s chair didn’t make May look like he was throwing in a different league.

But the timing made the whole thing look suspicious, even if it wasn’t. Stammen was out due to the fallout from the Ron Marinaccio situation in Baltimore. So the Padres were already playing with a weird cloud over them. Then they came out and looked lifeless offensively. 

The Padres are carrying offensive frustration, injury concerns, bullpen drama, managerial discipline and NL West pressure. Following that with a one-hit shutout by a former Dodgers pitcher looks like part of a pattern. A pretty ugly one. 

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