IdahoBert

It’s 82°, which is a heat wave in SD and there is no rain in the forecast. Although this game begins indecently late this is about as good as you can get. 61% humidity. Does humidity help the ball travel or does it slow it down?

My company used to have late summer meetings in San Diego and it was so strange to leave Boise Idaho, where it was 100° in August and come to San Diego where it was foggy in the morning and 72° when it heated up. I never remembered to bring a jacket even though I needed one. Simply because I was used to hot weather and it felt so cold.

When I started to playfully type, “we are unleashing Montero on the Padres tonight,” my iPhone autocorrected it to “monsters.“ This is one of those times where I hope the soulless object I hold in my hand is correct. I hope they play in a way that makes up for that first loss in the series.

So do they have a six hour batting practice tomorrow on the off day or do they go down to Tijuana?

They’ve squandered so many opportunities tonight.

Riley Greene doubles (24) on a sharp line drive to right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr.

Wasted another inning with two guys on.

Can you get away with hitting Tatis with the ball to make his interference obvious?

That’s not a particularly uplifting inning after having two guys on with no outs.

Not a good throw by Jake.

I like the guys who wore the Lions jerseys on the flight to San Diego.

I don’t like the sponsor stuff on sleeves. I’m not a diehard traditionalist, but I don’t want their uniforms to end up looking like they’re in the premier league or something.

JK Simmons is one of us!

That shadow between the mound and the batter’s box is going to screw both teams for a while.

I’ve always thought this brown Padres color pallet was about as unattractive as you can get. Yeah, I know it’s a “Padre“ but still blah. Brown conflicts with my season. I don’t know what my season is, but it doesn’t include brown.

I’m getting used to this winning thing. There’s an almost perverse reliance upon it being there with predictable assurance. I haven’t felt authorized to experience this for a long time.

Jeez. We only got 3 hits. But it’s runs that count.

Oh boy. Tigers live is next. Two and three minute stretches of ads interrupted by a few seconds of remarks. Maybe it’s hard to scramble and get things together and they’re just killing time. It’s not like they want to give us ads. I chewed my nails down to the point. I was bleeding waiting to find out who won “pick the stick.” Thank God there’ll be two or three minutes of ads so I can gather myself and be prepared for what comes next. The excitement is exhausting.

Riley Greene homers (20) on a fly ball to right field. Parker Meadows scores.

This is a good way to break up a no-hitter.

They have 25 games left and if they keep “winning“ at a .226 rate they will finish the season with 125 losses.