SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Padres ran out a lineup Thursday that resembled one of the many off-brand assemblages they put on the field for so many years (decades) of irrelevance.
The difference in this instance was they possessed the third-best record in the National League and had a Cy Young contender on the mound.
But on a night he was working with his slimmest margin for error, Joe Musgrove had his first bad game of the season.