Colorado Rockies rookie Trevor Story made history on Wednesday after hitting a home run in his first three career MLB games. The San Diego Padres also made history during their opening series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, but it wasn't the good kind of history, because no other team has been this bad.
The Pads were shut out at Petco Park for 27 straight innings to start the 2016 MLB season. Last night's 7-0 loss to the Dodgers solidified their spot in baseball history as one of the worst ever. San Diego was outscored 25-0 over those three games and managed to muster just 11 hits against Clayton Kershaw, Scott Kazmir, Kenta Maeda and the Dodgers' bullpen.
The previous MLB record for consecutive scoreless innings to begin a season was 26, which was set by the 1943 St. Louis Browns, according to Stats LLC.
On the other hand, the Dodgers made some history with their dominance over their NL West rivals.
.@Dodgers become 2nd team to begin season with 3 shutouts, joining the 1963 Cardinals.https://t.co/Wr0ECXds1R pic.twitter.com/dU4xOXszVs
— MLB Stat of the Day (@MLBStatoftheDay) April 7, 2016
It's safe to say tht not many expected the Dodgers to start off the year this well, nor were the Padres' early woes at all what anyone predicted, especially given the question marks surrounding Kazmir and Maeda heading into the season, as well as the fact that Los Angeles had 10 players start the year off on the disabled list.
The Padres have a lot of new faces on the team, including rookie manager Andy Green, who isn't worried about the club's struggles after the first three games.
"The fact is, you can win each pitch," he said. "When you win each pitch, you win each at-bat, and when you win each at-bat, with quality at-bats, you start moving the needle and the team starts scoring runs. I think what you see right now -- like I said yesterday -- it's just more collective pressing."
San Diego will have a better opportunity to score this weekend when they visit the Rockies at Coors Field, as they'll be in the most hitter-friendly park in baseball and face a much more inferior pitching staff.
That ought to help their .134 team batting average.
