As the sun sank over Petco Park on Friday, Padres manager Andy Green prepared to observe the bounty or bust of his latest tinkering.
He moved Wil Myers into the lineup’s No. 2 spot against the Arizona Diamondbacks. He shuffled Melvin Upton Jr. to No. 4. He searched for success. He hunted for spark.
Tweak. Reshape. Re-examine. Wash, rinse and – if a successful offensive combination emerges – repeat. The Padres returned to San Diego with seven road games on the books and zero answers about a set of bats as maddeningly inconsistent as gumbo in Glasgow.