Padres Star Refuses To Give Dodgers Pitching Staff Credit For Shutting Them Down
The Dodgers pitching staff held the Padres scoreless for 24 consecutive innings, making it the longest postseason drought in over three decades. However, San Diego outfielder Jurickson Profar refused to give credit where credit was due.
It’s a tough task being a villain. It’s easy to have things to say when you’re winning, but when you’ve lost, the smirks vanish and a seed of bitterness is planted.
“We did a lot of unusual things,” Profar said. “We don’t want to give credit either, you know, to their pitching. We just didn’t come through.”
October is certainly an unusual time for teams that aren’t built to endure the postseason. Just ask the Dodgers teams that fell short in 2022 and 2023.
Unlike Profar, Fernando Tatis Jr. gave the Dodgers bullpen credit for shutting San Diego down.
“Give credit to everybody who deserves credit,” Tatis told Kevin Acee of The San Diego Union-Tribune. “They pitched good. Simple as that. We gave our best battle.”
Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched five scoreless innings in the win-or-go-home matchup Friday night. The Dodgers bullpen did the rest.
The only threat of the game came in the third inning when Kyle Higashioka and Luis Arraez were both on base and Yamamoto faced Tatis. The Padres outfielder grounded out, which resulted in a double play to end the frame.
After that, the Padres were silent. None of San Diego’s final 19 batters reached base.
The Dodgers faced a 2-1 deficit following a heartbreaking 6-5 loss in Game 3 of the National League Division Series. The Padres let back-to-back games slip away from them.
But the two victories San Diego did have were full of taunts and mockery from Padres players, specifically Profar, Tatis, and Manny Machado.
Profar let Mookie Betts think he hit a home run in Game 2, until revealing he had actually robbed him. Tatis blew kisses to angry Dodgers fans. Machado threw a ball to the Dodgers dugout, allegedly in the direction of Dave Roberts.
It was a horrific sight, but the Dodgers didn’t seem to care about the taunts. They focused on playing the game, and it paid off.
However, Profar managed to stoop even lower than rock bottom with his defiance to give credit to the Dodgers pitching staff.
As the series went down the 5 freeway to Petco Park, Padres manager Mike Shildt reminded fans to “stay classy, San Diego,” yet his own player failed to follow the mantra following the Game 5 loss to the Dodgers.
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Im eating my words I didn’t think they could do it but i learned to ever to bet against the dodgers my bad I always believed but the pitching just didn’t convince me dodgers shut down a good hitting team I apologies dodger nation
Jurkoff Profar is the epitome of the 2024 Padres, a bunch of loud-mouth, arrogant punks! Mike Schildt didn’t give the Dodgers any credit either in his post game interview, so maybe that type of attitude comes from the top. Not sure how far the Dodgers will get, but happy they beat the Padres!
Manny has never had any type sportsmanship. I’m surprised they let him stay in the league Baseball doesn’t need him. To much talent out there to put up with his crap. At least Otani has class to go with his talent.
Profar isn’t worth even talking about. If you have the talent then you can lose gracefully as well as winning.
Why not talk about the classless Dodgers fans throwing balls and objects on the field? Why not mention the FACT that Ohtani chucked his bat at Padres bench on homerun? Why not slam Robert’s for making it personal on a player on the other team? What about Muncey talks crap?
ALSO… I wonder if you think Randy Arozerena and Julio Rodriguez when they sit there for 15 seconds and then show the ball? How about Will Smith calling Profar “irrelevent”?
Regardless, Padres did not hit, and Dodgers crushed the pitching aspect.
Apparently, you are a Dodger fan. This is 1 sided and you know it, irresponsible “journalism”.
“October is certainly an unusual time for teams that aren’t built to endure the postseason. Just ask the Dodgers teams that fell short in 2022 and 2023.”
This cracks me up coming from the Padre’s Profar. The pitiful, feckless Padres have never won anything in their entire existence. It’s safe to say that they’ve never been built to endure the postseason. Show some respect to your superiors Suckas!!! Go Dodgers.
Profar, I have lost all respect for you. Whether you give our pitching staff credit or not, you didn’t score a single run in 26 of the final 27 innings over the final three games of the series. You’re just lucky you barely got enough runs to win in that one inning of game 3. You only scored those because of Manny’s baserunning shenanigans. You got away with murder in that game, but not after that.
Your bats were completely shut down after that one inning. Whether it was your incompetence or our pitchers’ brilliance doesn’t matter — you still suck. You let your showboat attitude get in the way of playing baseball, and you paid the price. One team was class, the other one was not. The class team won in the end, soundly BEATING the other. You didn’t “let it slip away”, you were BEATEN. You really need to let that sink in.
Your biggest problem is that you’ve let certain teammates of yours affect your attitude. You never had that attitude before, and it doesn’t look good on you. Just drop it and play your game. That’s what professionals do. Karma’s a bitch, and she just paid you a visit. You don’t want to piss off karma again.
Why does he need to give you guys credit? You run around pretending 2020 was a real title. You will lose again. You spend a billion dollars on your payroll and are super excited to win the division round. Nobody respects the Dodgers.
Wow Machado Jr. The winners laugh and joke while the losers yeah I’m talking to you, suck it up buttercup
can’t your team of thugs understand a bunch of failed starters that only pitch to 3 batters gave them a beat down. They and you get to live with this for the next 6 months, Enjoy the feeling it gives you.
Shut your mouth before I wash it out with soap you sore loser
No one respects the pods. Given there antics 2nd class team, and always will be.
Hmmmmm, Is that why you are on DodgersNation reading articles and taking time to post comments, Chris? Surely, you have better things to do than hurl petty insults at Dodgers fans as you prepare to spend the afternoon watching the Dodgers in the NLDS AND ruminating about your team’s “next year.”
You seem to be suffering from some sour grapes there Chris. You definitely have no class!
Real title or not like you say. Your team couldn’t even win that. Sore looser!
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You must be a Padres fan.?
Chris you must be a Padres fan.??
Wah wah wah…
Boohoo
Didn’t the Dodgers eliminate the Padres in 2020, too? Oh yeah, Belli stole a homer from Tatis and Machado wanted to fight about it. In other words, IT MATTERED!
Real title or not like you say. Your team couldn’t even win that. Sore looser!
I’d never thought poorly about the Padres before this postseason. But I sure do now. A bunch of whiners and brats. Of course you want to win, I should hope so. But if you lose, bow your head and say congratulations. Even if you aren’t thinking it.
I know, he’s long gone, but this is not the team of Mr Padre, Tony Gwynn. First ballot HOF’er and a class act all the way around. Nobody’s going to accuse Tatise, Profar, Machado or Jackson Merrill of being a class act. Admittedly all outstanding players, but not a class act among them. Doesn’t matter to them now, come 20 or 30 years it might or might not.
To quote Costner’s character in Bull Durham, Million dollar arm and 10 cent head.
The better team won!
I’ll invoke Kike’s game 5 post game quote – “We don’t give a f-ck”.