The Latest Breaking News from Yu Darvish

SAN DIEGO — Manny Machado believes the way he and Eric Hosmer are preparing and playing is setting a tone.

PITTSBURGH — The San Diego Padres continued on Friday to act like a team that knows what to do when it is on the field with an inferior opponent.

At a time when pitchers are throwing more secondary pitches than ever, the Padres ace is the paragon of the modern game.

SAN DIEGO — Clayton Kershaw quietly continued his march toward club history.

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…

SAN FRANCISCO — The Giants’ series finale against the Padres lacked the fireworks of the previous night, but the club will happily accept the tradeoff if it means escaping with its second straight series win.

PHOENIX — Pitching on the one-year anniversary of his no-hitter, Joe Musgrove was merely just another really good Padres starter on Saturday night.

PHOENIX, Ariz. — The San Diego Padres played a delayed opening-day game on a pleasant evening inside the massive airplane hangar known as Chase Field, and Yu Darvish got them started by chasing history.

PEORIA, Ariz. — Nothing illuminates the mad-scientist makeup of Padres pitcher Yu Darvish more than conversations happening a few lockers away at the team's spring-training complex.

PEORIA, Ariz. — Yu Darvish will be the Padres' starting pitcher on opening day for the second straight season.

When the Cubs executed their trade-deadline fire sale last July—after they had traded Yu Darvish and nontendered Kyle Schwarber in December 2020—it appeared that they would be entering a multiyear transition. Perhaps this wouldn’t be the type of long rebuild they endured a decade ago, but it was ...