Rockies 4, Padres 2

The dangerous thing about not respecting your opponents, which we clearly didn't do following Game 1 of this series, is that they will give that little extra to show you that, no, we may not be equal to your season, we are going to show you that we are equal when we play you. In this four-game series, we won one game, squeezed out another, and were outhustled in the other two. In other words, it really is a lost series. 

This was the stuff that doomed the Padres last year. The Rockies will play, they will show up, and you will get beaten if you don't match their fight. I get it, guys, you were just taken to the limit by the Cardinals, Brewers, Giants, Braves, and Mets...but now the switch is off against the Rockies? Dangerous thinking, that. So we can't turn it on for the Rockies, but don't worry, we'll be out there for the Dodgers? Guess what, Padres: nobody sees that switch, but they feel it. They feel it when, all of a sudden, our hitters can't touch their starters with their 5-point-plus ERA, which happened again today. Three subpar starters, but our batters can't touch them? Okay. The Rockies don't count, right? Just another major league team.

Snell got six innings, which was good to see. His pitch count was up, but he was battling. Six innings, two runs, that's what we need. Can't fault Snell for our hitters taking another day off. Voit finally got a valuable hit which cut their lead to one. We tied it, denying German Marquez a chance at a win. Our bullpen finally gave up a run after 12 shutout innings against Colorado, and those runs made the difference. This is all on the offense. Three straight games against average pitchers, and we squeezed out one win. Read the newspapers much, boys? Think we're that great? We'll see the next time we play the Rockies, because the advantage is now theirs. They think they can beat us, just like they did last year. Again, you think we might have learned our lesson last year, but I guess no't. Two runs per game over the last three games at home against the Rockies. Let's forget about those series victories against the Mets and Giants, shall we? We could have been in first place by now (after the Giants swept the Dodgers), but we decided to play the Rockies at 50 percent strength and intensity. We'll see them in a week at their place. I know one team will definitely be ready to play.  

Guys, the Padres, and by virtue the city of San Diego, are in a playoff race. We thought that meant blood games against the Dodgers and Giants. Bored, perhaps? Maybe we'd like to invite the Rockies to join us in the playoff race, because they certainly don't seem to think they are a lesser team than we are. Cubs next, four games. They are 13 games below .500, by the way. Care to play, or sit this one out?