The Padres own the Dodgers. It hurts to say it, but it's true. My entire lifetime, it feels like the Padres have just been eating us up, and Vin Scully confirmed it last night with this startling stat: Since 1982, the Dodgers are 26 games under .500 against San Diego. This season alone we're 3-10 against them. It's very puzzling how we can be so bad against a team so mediocre. Last night was simply dreadful. The Dodgers' offense got absolutely nothing going against Jake Peavy and wasted a good start by Mark Hendrickson. Yes, that's right, Hendrickson made a quality start. You've gotta take advantage of something like that, because it doesn't happen often. Hoffman came in again in the 9th again to save it, his 54th in 56 chances lifetime vs. LA. What a bitch.

Coming into this series I was glad to see we were 4 full games up, so that if the worst possible scenario happened and we got swept, we'd still be in first place heading into Arizona. Well now it looks like that scenario might come to fruition. I thought Padres were supposed to be nonviolent men of God like Father Serra, gently spreading the Lord's word all throughout California. Instead, against the Dodgers, they're more like Hernan Cortez, ruthlessly slaughtering the Aztecs. We'll have to hope Brad Penny can stop the blood pouring from the gaping wound the Padres have made.