All quiet on the Eastern front: Padres 3, Phillies 0

Mike Clevinger shut down the Phillies’ offense in their return to PhiladelphiaIt would have been nice if the Phillies - fresh off a successful West Coast trip - returned home and continued to play winning baseball. It would have been nice if the offense that terrorized the Dodgers pitching staff picked up where it left off and continued to score bunches of runs. But did anybody actually expect that?

Instead, most of us expected the Phillies to return home and fall flat, and that’s exactly what happened as they went down meekly to the San Diego Padres by a score of 3-0.

The Phillies were going against Padres starter Mike Clevinger, a solid starter who saw his career derailed by Tommy John…