If I were to tell you before the season that Yu Darvish’s biggest start of the season would be in a mid-September afternoon game against the St. Louis Cardinals, you’d probably laugh because you would’ve assumed that San Diego would either be fighting for the division or they’d have the first wild card spot essentially locked up. However, that’s not the case because of how many things have gone wrong for the Padres rotation this season.
Tonight is indeed Darvish’s biggest start of the season for a couple of reasons. First, every Padres starter’s biggest start of the year is their next one (especially considering that the Friars are fighting for a playoff spot).