Here's some good news Padres fans don't want to hear right now, and I don't blame them:
As deflating as it was to see the Dodgers sweep their team, just days after A.J. Preller's bold trades put Juan Soto, Josh Hader, Josh Bell and Brandon Drury into brown pinstripes, the three defeats meant very little, practically speaking, in the big picture.
If fans groaned in exasperation as Dodgers pitchers continued to feed Padres lumber into a blue wood chipper, the overall narrative remained the same when the Padres rolled back down Interstate 5 and began a short homestand Monday against the San Francisco Giants.
