From 4 homers allowed to his place in Padres lore, a look at Craig Stammen through the years

Craig Stammen was not happy as he stood at his locker on June 9, 2019.

He’d not only given up four home runs. He’d given up a home run to four straight batters to turn a save situation into what must be the low point of a 13-year career on the mound.

The conversation that followed with a handful of reporters that gathered around his locker was necessary — at least as necessary as any conversation after a regular-season game of baseball — so Stammen met the queries head on.

It was the opposite of pulling teeth. He lost a game in spectacular fashion and did not begrudge any questions that followed, some answers more obvious than the others.

“This is what it feels like to give up a home run,” Stammen, hired Thursday as the next Padres manager , said then. “You want to dig a hole, crawl