Stephen Strasburg suffered his first loss of the season in Washington's 6-1 loss to San Diego on Tuesday afternoon. Nationals manager Davey Johnson told the team's beat writers that the right-hander's poor pitching performance was due in part to some "Hot Stuff" that "got to the wrong place." Johnson either didn't know or wouldn't reveal exactly how the ointment got in contact with the wrong part of Strasburg's body. "It was on his shoulder and evidently -- I don't know how it got to where it got, but it was uncomfortable, to say the least," Johnson said. Asked about it, Strasburg said: "I'm going to keep that in the clubhouse." The buzz around the internet was that a teammate may have played a prank on Strasburg, perhaps putting the ointment in his jock strap. However, that seems unlikely. "The sense in the Nationals' clubhouse was no one would have pulled a prank on Strasburg on the day he pitched — nobody would be that dumb," writes Adam Kilgore of the Washington Post. "Baseball clubhouses are full of jocularity and pranks, but they don't take precedence over winning. "Players found it plausible that the ointment had found the wrong place by accident. Some pitchers will use the Hot Stuff to prepare for a start and get their blood flowing. It is possible the rain and wet conditions caused the ointment to move to the wrong part of Strasburg's body."