Cubs 6, Padres 0: The Professor conducts a master class

I told you Kyle Hendricks still had some good pitching left in him.

The Professor looked like the Kyle of old, becoming the first Cubs starter to record an out in the eighth inning this year. Then he went on to the ninth, and only a ninth-inning walk — his only one of the night — pushed his pitch count too high for him to complete a shutout. Scott Effross finished up by retiring Manny Machado and the Cubs had what was one of their best games of the year to date, a 6-0 domination of the Padres.

That’s the most runs they had scored in almost two weeks, since the 6-3 extra-inning win over the Braves April 27, the most in a nine-inning game since the 21-0 demolition of the Pirates April 23, and…