The San Diego Padres believe they can reach the postseason for the fourth time in the last six years this season despite making few impact moves in the offseason.
PEORIA, Ariz. — Yu Darvish is brilliant with a baseball. With the half-dozen pitches he throws regularly and the five others he mixes in on occasion, his pitching is practically poetry. He mesmerizes from the mound.
San Diego Padres pitcher Cole Paplham was hit in the face by a 102.4 mph line drive during a spring training game against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Phoenix on Sunday, Feb. 23.