Fernando Tatis Jr. of the Padres throws a home run out of Dodger Stadium

We tackled the The buffoonery of the Cubs this morning already, so Iand let’s get down to business on the ground – in particular Fernando Tatis Jr. turning a baseball into moon rock.

Yeah, that bullet landed on top of that pavilion above the bleachers and on LA night, presumably to avoid traffic.

Statcast said it reached 467 feet, which must bypass Tatis by about 200 feet.

“It was a huge home run,” Ha-Seong Kim of the Padres told reporters Thursday night of Tatis’ 42nd bombing. “It’s the 42nd time I’ve seen him. But it always surprises me every time.

Here is the short list of players who hit balls outside Dodger Stadium: Tatis, Giancarlo Stanton, Mark McGwire, Mike Piazza and Willie Stargell (twice). For those who don’t know, Dodger Stadium opened in 1962, 59 years ago.

“Everyone was a bit shocked,” Padres manager Jayce Tingler said of Tatis’ second longest run of his career. “You think back to some of the guys who have been here over the years. Not only was this balloon impressive, it was impressive at night too, where the balloon usually doesn’t travel as well.

It’s disappointing for the Padres that this kind of tear in the space / time continuum doesn’t count for much other than the climax, like the Pods were on track to lose one more to the Dodgers. This is what happens when you have to start over Vince Velasquez because all of your other starters are now extras on “The Walking Dead”.

But Tatis isn’t going anywhere, and when spring training takes place in February, you’ll find most still saying the Padres will be the Dodgers’ closest challenger. There are too many returns that can’t be that hurt or that bad. And maybe the next time Tatis Jr. hits one in Narnia, it’ll be part of a reel for a season to remember for San Diego.