MILWAUKEE — The Padres are winning close games in ways that they believe will steel them for later success.

They are losing a number of the same kinds of games as well.

And after those games, it is always a relief pitcher sitting dazed in the clubhouse, trying to process what happened.

Following Saturday’s 4-3 loss to the Brewers on Caleb Durbin’s walk-off home run in the ninth inning, it was rookie David Morgan staring straight ahead with red eyes pondering the one pitch he threw in his fifth career appearance.

“You have to go into that situation and throw strikes, and you’ve got to get ahead,” Morgan said. “… Maybe wrong spot. I think the pitch is OK there. My fastball is a good pitch, get ahead with it. He was waiting on it, ambushed me. That’s part of the game.”

Morgan’s 98 mph fa

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