Padres go down early again, lose again to Orioles

There has been a fair amount of talk, in and around the Padres, about a lack of energy.

No concrete reason has been given except the theory that lack of results, both individually and collectively, have led to some dejectedness and that teams sometimes go through funks.

There is maybe also the fact that playing from behind sets a tone.

And the Padres have been playing from behind quite a bit.

Yu Darvish on Tuesday was the latest starting pitcher to put them in a hole early, and the Padres hardly put up a fight in a 6-2 loss to the Orioles.

The defeat, their seventh in the past nine games, sealed the Padres’ third straight series loss and their second in a row to a losing team. It also kept them 2½ games behind the Dodgers in the National League West and trimmed their lead to one game