Terrible night for Cease and Padres vs. Snell, Dodgers

Terrible night for Cease and Padres vs. Snell, Dodgers

All right, the Padres’s they dropped game two of this series. They’ve already lost this series. It was Blake Snow on the mound for the Dodgers and Dylan CE on the mound for the Pods. And the question going in, what Dylan CE were we going to get? And we ended up getting the Dylan CE that we can’t trust come postseason time or at least that’s how I feel. And I felt this way going into this start and I feel only stronger about that coming off of this start. He had that good start against the Dodgers at Petco Park earlier this season, but at Dodger Stadium, remember the start before this last one started off really well. I think he struck out the first five guys and then didn’t have enough gas in the tank the rest of the way here. Turned into Blake Snell that we saw with the Padres’s at times. Way too many walks. I think he finished with six walks today. Unacceptable. Six walks. You don’t make it through four innings. He only gave up two hits. When you walk three times the amount of hits that you allow, that’s crazy. And then we know CE has strikeout stuff. He only struck out a couple of guys. Now, Snell, on the other hand, only struck out a few guys, but didn’t allow any runs. Six innings, five hits, no runs from him. Not surprised that Snell was able to dominate the Padres’s. Kind of what happens. That’s the feeling that I got going into this that yeah, Snell is probably going to be pretty darn good. Uh although Dodger fans just I mean I shouldn’t be shocked, but like they don’t understand what a quality start is. I tweet shocker something like this. Shocker. Blake Snell’s first quality start comes against the Padres’s uh as a Dodger. And then I got Dodger fans in the comments talking about how he struck out 10 guys against the Blue Jays in five innings. And I’m like, “You guys don’t understand what a quality start is, so just how about read what I’m saying before you reply, but they’re not the smartest bunch.” Um, but anyway, like back to the performance from Dylan CE. I mean, the three walks that he had there, the first three walks in the first inning, guess what? They come around to score. just free passes, fast balls left up out of the zone and just not make not being able to make the adjustment. Or if he knew he wasn’t going to be able to make the adjustment today, he, you know, don’t try to throw it in that spot and maybe try to throw it in a different location in the zone and try to throw those balls down, um, throw different pitches. It It just wasn’t working tonight. And man, I miss Joe Musgrove. If the Padres’s had Joe Musgrove as a starter, they could literally go with Paveta, maybe King, Darvish, and Musgrove as their four starters in the postseason. And then you wouldn’t even have to have Dylan CE on the roster if you didn’t want him to. You know, maybe you’d have him in the bullpen or something, but like uh now there’s that question. Um, I think they’d have Dylan CE on the roster, but the good thing is I think they’re changing the off days coming up in the postseason. So, you could get through a series with three starting pitchers and not have to use a fourth. Um, and also with this Padres’s bullpen, maybe they would get a great start from Paveta or something and he goes really deep and then they can have, you know, W and David Morgan start a game and, you know, you can throw Randy in there and you can get away with that. instead of having to throw to throw Dylan CE. If it’s Dylan CE against another team, whether it be the Mets or the Phillies or the Brewers or whoever, I’m more open to that. But if it’s against the Dodgers specifically, I don’t want Dylan CE anywhere near the mound in the postseason. And if he wants to if he proves me wrong, that’ll be great because that means he pitched well and hopefully the Padres’s win that game. But right now, don’t trust the guy. And it’s almost like I don’t really care what he does the rest of the season because I’m still going to have these Dodgers memories in these outings. And it sure seems like the Padres’s are going to face the Dodgers again in the postseason. That’s what it feels like right now. Um it’s not all on Dylan Cast though. Obviously they scored zero runs. Don’t score, you’re not going to win. So offense, you still need to see more. Um Jackson in center field dropping that ball. That’s inexcusable. Um they just forgot how to play baseball at times today. Uh really really not fun to watch. And then offensively or I should say on the base pass it’s not working. So let’s keep doing it. How does that make sense? You allow Will Smith to throw you out three times in the first two innings and one of those you had a runner in scoring position already with two outs with bogey up at the plate. How about you let him swing the bat and finish the atbat because Blake Snow would have thrown ball three there on the the pitch that ended the inning there. Manny gets thrown out. Was it was he safe? Could the Potteries have reviewed that and would they have won it? Maybe. Who knows? But what actually happened was he was called out. They didn’t review it and that was the end of the inning. Maybe let Xander swing the bat. And the aggressiveness is that because not very confident in this offense. So let’s get a guy in scoring position and you know get a hit and bring in a run that way. Okay. But you got to realize who’s behind the plate. As much as I hate him, Will Smith’s one of the best catchers in baseball. This is not some random guy getting called up and now he’s thrown into this big situation. Will Smith’s been in these situations. He he knows these Padres’s runners pretty darn well. So yeah, you would think after the first couple times they wouldn’t try it a third time and they did. Um so that didn’t set a great tone there early on. And then obviously I mean the first couple innings they Dodgers scored five runs there and it felt like the game was over already. But yeah, like just dug a hole and you you know that saying that that Mike Schil has about this Padres’s team and his last couple Padres’s teams these last couple years, how they they take everything, they give away nothing, right? Well, today it was the opposite. It was literally give them everything and take nothing. Give them outs. Give them free outs on the base pass. Give them free runs. Give them free base runners. Give them more plate appearances by dropping balls in the outfield. Give away everything is what that was tonight. So yeah, if they get swept, the good news is it’s still just two games back, but it would feel like a huge missed opportunity obviously. And if they want this division, they better play a whole lot better next weekend when the Dodgers are in in in town obviously at Beco. Uh but yeah, not expecting much success off of Blake Snow when he pitches against the Padres’s. Just not. And Dylan Cece, I don’t want him pitching against the Dodgers in a Padre uniform probably ever again. And that’s just how I feel about it. Not a fun game. took me a little bit to give a reaction because the Wave actually an entertaining team got a win at Bay and SDFC plays tomorrow at that same uh PayPal park against San Jose. So that’ll give us something to watch tomorrow as well. But uh I think 110 is the series finale tomorrow. Trying to get one win here. If they do, then obviously they will have avoided the sweep and then I believe it would be a tie for first place in the National League West. If they lose and then they get swept, then they’ll be two games back in the National League West. Right now they’re a game back. Dodgers run differential significantly better than the Padres’s plus 87. The Padres’s plus 45. That’s what I’ve got. Not a fun night. [Music]

Dylan Cease didn’t do his job tonight and it was just a sloppy, ugly game

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