The Padres, and Dodgers for that matter, learned something about rookie starter MacKenzie Gore on Sunday. Because of it, Gore undoubtedly learned a whole lot about himself.
There's toughness. There's fight. There's a pool of resiliency, forged in a situation and setting only a game like Sunday's can provide, that revealed the specialness the Padres banked on with the 23-year-old along his bumpy road to proving he belongs.
Gore muscled his way out of a bases-loaded, first-inning jam after allowing back-to-back doubles to Mookie Betts and Trea Turner six pitches in to steady things in a 4-2 win that staunched serious series bleeding at Dodger Stadium.
