On Tuesday night, the Los Angeles Dodgers fell to the San Diego Padres 11-1.
Every single Major League Baseball team gets blown out once in a while in a 162-game schedule, and Tuesday happened to be one of the worst nights for the Dodgers.
The pitching and hitting both didn't show up, which led to the Dodgers waving the white flag in the bottom of the sixth inning when the team sent in positional player Kike Hernandez to pitch.
Usually, teams will send in positional players to throw a few innings in a blowout to save the bullpen, and Los Angeles set a franchise record by sending Hernandez in so early.
According to Jack Harris from The Los Angeles Times, the Dodgers set their franchise record for the earliest a positional player had to pitch in a game.
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"Then, in the face of a nine-run deficit in the bottom of the sixth, they sent position player Kiké Hernández to the mound to pitch the rest of the game, the earliest a true position player had ever taken the mound in a contest in Dodgers franchise history," Harris wrote.
The good news is that baseball is a game played every day, so the Dodgers can get the horrible feeling of losing in a bad way out of their system as soon as possible.
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