In his postseason debut, Shohei Ohtani helped lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to a comeback win over the San Diego Padres. The Mets didn’t have an extra-base hit, but they timed eight singles extremely well, scoring five runs in the eighth inning and tacking on an insurance run in the ninth. Verdugo, coming off a down offensive season, wasn’t expected …
San Diego Padres starting pitcher Yu Darvish delivers a pitch during the first inning of a 5-3 win over the Dodgers in Game 2 of the NLDS on Wednesday at Dodger Stadium. While a reporter was in the middle of asking a question, the San Diego Padres right-hander said in Japanese to no one in particular, “It’s a sayonara.” Darvish’s …
We don’t mean to pick on the Cleveland Indians, but their words represent those of a league whose owners have spent years persuading fans to root for prudent financial management. They are the San Diego Padres, a thoroughly enjoyable team that its home city could not enjoy in person last summer, at least not without access to the balconies and …
