Cam Maybin and Yasmani Grandal - AP Photo
One of the few nights that Time Warner cable users should be legitimately pissed off they couldn’t watch the Padres. Alexi Amarista, coming in at 5’3″ or so, fell a triple short of hitting for the cycle. Still never been done by a Padre. Clayton Richard went 8.2 innings for the win. Yasmani Grandal got his third MLB hit… which was another home run. He got his fourth too, a single. And holy crap, Cam Maybin went Mickey Mantle on a ball, launching it 485 feet, the longest home run of 2012 in all of major league baseball. That, my lobster friends, is a big league ball club.
Think it’s a coincidence that this performance came soon after I mocked them as an “actual MLB team“, or posted the “Call Me Maybin” gear despite his inability to keep his average above the mendoza line, or told you what a boss Grandal is? There are no coincidences. The entire team reads LobShots and I lit a fire under their ass. You’re welcome, San Diego.
-bp