Dustin May loses all of his shine in ridiculous first inning of Dodgers-Cubs opener

In his first three starts since returning to mound after nearly two years, Dustin May looked almost completely untouchable. In 16 innings, he gave up just two earned runs while striking out 13 batters, almost all on a beautiful sweeper that hadn't give up a single one of the hits he allowed through that stretch.

But the Dodgers were always going to get a challenge facing the Cubs, who currently lead the NL Central and notably shut out the Dodgers 16-0 on April 12, their worst home shutout loss in franchise history.

May entered in the bottom of the first with a comfortable lead courtesy of Tommy Edman who continued on his stunning and, frankly, ridiculous streak of power hitting with a three-run homer off of Cubs starter Shota Imanaga. But things immediately went sideways for May; he gave up a leadoff double to Ian Happ, then a single to Kyle Tucker on a sinker that didn't sink.

Tucker stole second to get two men into scoring position, and then Seiya Suzuki, who hasn't been hitting the Dodgers well this year, brought both of them around to score on an RBI double. May got his first out on a Michael Busch groundout, but things only got worse from there.

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Dansby Swanson promptly tripled to bring Suzuki in and even the score (and someone finally hit that unhittable sweeper), but May responded by wracking up his first strikeout on Nico Hoerner for his second out. But he didn't totally staunch the bleeding; Pete Crow-Armstrong and Miguel Amaya brought in two more runs to put Chicago up by two before May finally got Gage Workman to ground out after a 28-pitch inning.

The Dodgers responded in the top of the second with a solo homer from Andy Pages, but so far they're continuing to prove that they simply cannot score unless they're hitting homers. Outside of Edman and Pages, the only Dodger to get a hit down against Imanaga through three innings was Teoscar Hernández, who singled in the top of the first before Freddie Freeman struck out to end the inning.

One bad start isn't the end of the world, but it looked like May might never get out of the first inning, and this might signal the end of his streak of almost unbelievable pitching to start the season.