Tom Krasovic: Mamma Mia! Meddling fan, MLB review process has Mike Shildt singing the blues

It’s now official.

When Padres infielder and pop singer Jose Iglesias performs a concert at Petco Park next month, he won’t cover any songs by Swedish pop band ABBA.

Monday night at the same ballpark, a fan in a black ABBA shirt likely cost Xander Bogaerts a home run, and the Padres went on to lose by one run.

Mamma Mia!

Bogaerts’ second-inning drive with the bases empty went off the glove of Giants left fielder Heliot Ramos and over the wall.

Umpires initially ruled it a home run.

But on appeal from the Giants, a replay judge said the man in the ABBA shirt interfered with Ramos in reaching for the ball. Bogaerts was called out.

Though Mike Shildt bragged last month about his tambourine skills when asked if he’ll accompany Iglesias, the Padres’ manager wasn’t feeling pop-music-y after the ABBA shirt guy’s actions.

Shildt was Sid Vicious.

He fired out of the dugout, earning him a certain heave-ho. After Monday’s 4-3 loss, he was still hot. It seemed his glasses might fog up.

Shildt assailed the logic of the folks at Major League Baseball’s Replay Command Center in New York City.

He argued that their deliberation’s tedious length — 2 minutes and 40 seconds — reinforced that the video replay didn’t meet the standard of “clear and convincing evidence” to overturn the call.

“That’s just really disappointing that we go that long and have to come up with a conclusion that’s not conclusive to overturn a home run,” he said.

Shildt said his own replay crew saw “zero” chance the home run call should be overturned.

MLB’s statement: “After reviewing all relevant angles, the replay official definitively determined that the spectator reached out over the field of play and interfered with a live ball. The spectator’s actions clearly prevented the fielder from making the catch.”

You say tomato, Shildt says rotten.

Suffice to say that when the Padres celebrate their next win, “Dancing Queen” won’t be their postgame groove.

Seamhead stuff

No one in Padres Land would be right to blame Monday’s loss on the Replay Command Center — not that Shildt did.

The Giants hit three home runs in the first inning. Those four runs exceeded their three-game total last week against the Padres. Ramos brought in MLB’s worst OPS against left-handed pitching only to golf a Nelson Cortes fastball far enough that no one could interfere with Padres left fielder Ramón Laureano’s hopeless try.

• Spurring a Padres rally in the seventh inning, Giants third baseman Casey Schmitt turned a routine glove-side ground ball into a double error.

The San Diego State alum stood in for the Giants’ best player, Matt Chapman, who is out with a hand injury. Lacking two relievers who were traded three weeks ago to playoff contenders, the Giants’ bullpen held on.

• Home run power was needed. Home run power was acquired. Padres newbies Laureano, Ryan O’Hearn and Freddy Fermín went into Tuesday with seven of the team’s 13 home runs since A.J. Preller traded for them on July 31.

Here were the Padres’ home run hitters for August entering Tuesday: Laureano 4, Bogaerts 3, O’Hearn 2, Jackson Merrill 2 and Fermín, Iglesias and Jake Cronenworth with one apiece.

• Cortes rebounded from the bad first inning. His improved changeups may bode well for better results.

The Padres weren’t wrong to add Cortes and fellow lefty starting pitcher J.P. Sears in trades last month, subpar results notwithstanding, given that they shipped out a pair of big-league starters and an advanced pitching prospect.

Preller’s trade last summer for closer Tanner Scott — who for sure appreciably improved the club’s chances of winning the franchise’s first World Series title — left a delayed bruise that’s now perhaps being felt.

Left-handed starting pitcher Robby Snelling, dealt to the Marlins in the trade for Scott, is having a fine bounce-back season. The 2022 first-round draftee has posted a 1.34 ERA with sharp secondary stats in six Triple-A starts. He’s 21.

• In dismissing the Giants so handily last week, the Padres showed “they definitely have that chemistry,” Giants broadcaster and former big league pitcher Mike Krukow told Bruce Jenkins of the San Francisco Chronicle. “You can feel their energy, see it on their faces,” he said. “There’s no doubt in my mind they’re gonna win the division.”

Baseball doing baseball things, the Padres were swept by the Dodgers in the next three games, dropping them two games behind L.A.

• Down the stretch, the Padres should hold a defensive edge, although the ankle injury Merrill sustained Friday in L.A. may cut into it. They lead the National League with the highest percentage of turning balls in play into outs, trailing only the Rangers. The Dodgers are tied with two teams for 15th. The Giants, who will be the Padres’ opponent through Thursday, sit four spots from the bottom.