SAN DIEGO — There was little chance it could live up to the mountainous expectation. Not that it had to.
“You try to create a good first impression,” San Diego Padres manager Bob Melvin said Thursday afternoon. “I mean, it’s not like our fans are gonna go away after day one. But it really is one and 161. There’s nothing like opening day.”
That’s right. After all the buildup to the first game of a Major League Baseball season, the game is played and then there are 161 of them remaining.
