Padres blanked again, set MLB record in loss
U.S. OPEN CUP ANNOUNCES FIRST-ROUND DRAW
SAN DIEGO — Japanese pitcher Kenta Maeda homered in the second at-bat of his major league debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday night and beat the Padres 7-0, making San Diego the first team in major league history to be shut out in its first three games.
The Padres were outscored 25-0 in the opening series against the Dodgers. They set the MLB mark with 27 straight scoreless innings to open a season. The old mark was
MLB SCOREBOARD 26 by the 1943 St. Louis Cardinals.
The Padres thought they’d ended their scoreless streak in the sixth. Although Cory Spangenberg was called out trying to score on a grounder to first, the Padres appealed. A replay appeared to show Spangenberg got his foot across the plate before being tagged by A.J. Ellis. After a review of 3:02, the call was upheld.
The Padres also had runners on first and third with one out in the fourth before Maeda retired Yangervis Solarte and Derek Norris.
The 2016 U.S. Open Cup is a little more than a month away from kick off and Wednesday, the first-round draw and second round pairings were announced.
The first round is May 11 and features teams from the Premier Development League, National Premier Soccer League, as well as open division amateur soccer teams that have qualified.
The second round is scheduled for May 18 and this is the point Energy FC enters the tournament. This will be the Energy’s third Open Cup; they are 3-2 in the previous two.
The Energy will play the winner of Club Deportiva Motagua of New Orleans and Mississippi Brilla. Mississippi is a PDL team and will face the Energy U-23s in the upcoming 2016 PDL season. Motagua is an open qualifier that competes in the Louisiana Premier League.