Manny Machado going off on reporter over Padres' loss is catnip for Dodgers fans

The day after the Los Angeles Dodgers punched their ticket to the NLDS, their fiercest division rivals saw their season come to a painful end.

The San Diego Padres, who had been nipping at the Dodgers' heels for the top spot in the NL West down the stretch, fell to the Chicago Cubs in Game 3 of the NL Wild Card Series on Thursday. The Padres have now lost a winner-take-all game on the road two years in a row after falling to the Dodgers in Game 5 of the NLDS in 2024.

With tensions at a boiling point after Thursday's game, Jake Garegnani of CBS San Diego caught the wrath of Manny Machado when he asked the Padres' star infielder how he would assess the 2025 season as a whole.

“What type of question is that, dude? Machado responded. “My guy. How do I assess the season? We just lost. How do you think I assess it? What’s a loss? We lost, how do you assess it? It’s a loss. We lost. Come on dude. I mean, you can ask better questions than that. Let’s go. Come on.”

Manny Machado's frustration after Padres Wild Card loss is pure joy for Dodgers fans

While Machado's frustration after the loss was certainly understandable, his aggressive response to a perfectly standard question was simply unnecessary. No one was asking him to downplay the loss or to be happy about it; but the sheer amount of emotion that boiled over in his answer proved exactly why the question had to be asked.

No one likes losing, but it's in the job description for a Major League player – especially a veteran leader like Machado – to answer questions from the media after a game. His rude and oddly defensive response to a perfectly benign question showed just how angry he was about the Padres' season coming to an early end.

Machado's anger, while admittedly displaced onto a reporter who was simply doing his job, was music to Dodgers fans' ears. Not only did the Padres fall short of Big Brother for the second year in a row; they're even more enraged about it than we expected. It doesn't get much sweeter than that.

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