San Diego's futile extra innings record matched only by the expansion Expos
Extra-innings games have not been kind to the San Diego Padres this season. The club has played in a dozen of them on the year to date and they've lost them all -- a feat so unprecedented it has only happened once before in MLB history, 1969 when the expansion Montreal Expos also went 0-12 in extra innings games.
The Padres have five games remaining on the schedule and likely hope none go into extra innings.
San Diego's latest and record-tying loss came on Saturday at home against St. Louis. The Cardinals pushed across three runs in the top of the 11th inning on a single and a pair of sacrifice flys, all against reliever Scott Barlow. The Padres offense failed to get a ball out of the infield in the bottom half of the inning.
Eight of the twelve losses in extra innings have come on the road.
The Padres hold a 77-80 record on the season. They're likely to finish 5-6 games out of the last wild-card spot. Just a few of those extra innings games going the other direction may have made a sizeable difference.
The 1969 expansion Montreal Expos were one of the least successful teams in MLB history, finishing with a 52-110 record. Until this year they were the only club to ever go 0-12 in extra innings over a full season.
The last team to lose 11 consecutive games in extra innings was the 2015 Tampa Bay Rays, who finished the year 2-13 in such games.
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