Let’s just forget game one of the 2017 season. With Clayton Kershaw on the mound, it would have taken a miracle for the Padres to pull off a victory. The following three games had a little of everything, from the high of a sterling pitching performance to an unraveling of our “hybrid” player, from 3 hits in 4 at-bats for a rookie outfielder to sloppy play by the “face of the franchise.”
While all this action played out in Dodger Stadium in the first four days of the newly hatched season, bad news trickled in on other fronts.