Walker Buehler’s first Padres crashout has Dodgers fans feeling some sick satisfaction

Walker Buehler's career has seen better days. He's had a rather tragic arc — Rookie of the Year finalist and two-time All-Star and Cy Young candidate with the Dodgers to flaming out with the Red Sox to barely eking onto the Padres' Opening Day roster — but you have to give the guy some credit; he's keeping the dream alive.

The nagging Padres are playing annoying good baseball even with a lot of holes in that roster. They're second in the NL West with a 13-6 record, 1.5 games behind the Dodgers and two games ahead of the Diamondbacks.

Buehler has continued to do much of what we saw from him in his last year as a Dodger. He'll get lit up a few starts in a row, be great for one, and then continue to get lit up.

He's always been a bit of a hothead, but the Padres got their first taste of it on Thursday, when Buehler was taken out in the top of the sixth after giving up three straight singles to give the Mariners a run.

He didn't take it well. The Padres' broadcast caught him hurling his glove into the dugout wall as Bradgley Rodriguez came in to try to clean things up. Mind you, the Padres were still up 4-1.

Former Dodger Walker Buehler raged after being pulled from a start vs. Mariners

Rodriguez and then Adrian Morejon labored through the rest of the inning, but they came away relatively unscathed, with the Mariners scoring just one more run. The Padres went on to win 5-2.

It's unclear if Buehler was upset about how the outing had devolved or if he was upset about being taken out when he thought he could still get himself out of the jam (maybe both), but come on, man. You gave up a single run in five innings. That's not a bad start.

That sort of thing would never have flown with Dave Roberts, and we'll have to see if Craig Stammen deals with it any which way, or if he just chalks it up to emotions running high.

It's hard for Dodgers fans to feel bad for Buehler at this point. Maybe we could've, if he had gone to literally any other team — even the Giants would've been better than the Padres — but he chose San Diego. Sorry about the tough start, we guess.

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