SAN DIEGO — Bob Melvin shifted in his seat on the bench, clenched his fungo a bit tighter and gave it two knocks with his knuckles. The Padres manager would have preferred the team’s errorless streak to start the 2022 season gone unaddressed in his pregame get-together with reporters. As far as Yu Darvish coming off one of the worst starts of his career, the 60-year-old manager had no concerns whatsoever.
“Probably,” he said, “more in the fashion that we saw in the first start than the second one.”
Melvin was right.
