Let’s be clear. The San Diego Padres’ loss last night was excruciatingly painful. Eric Hosmer botching a play that he makes 999 times out of a thousand, in the spot that it came in, against the team that it came against, was a tough pill to swallow.
There’s no denying that we were all likely embarrassed for Hosmer last night and that we all went to bed (and possibly even woke up today) a little deflated.
That’s to be expected after we had our hopes built up, some of us even dreaming our wildest dreams about the trajectory of this franchise and the pace that this rebuild is on, only to have them plummet down to the earth quicker than Alex Bregman‘s weak pop-fly that fell behind Hosmer in the tenth.