Tigers score four runs in first inning, most any team has scored against Padres in the first inning of a season.
For no other game will there be as much divined as there is after the first one, which accounts for just more than one half of 1% of the Major League Baseball season. And what starting pitcher Nick Pivetta did Thursday afternoon at Petco Park is ripe for excessive assessment.
An 8-2 loss to the Detroit Tigers was a nightmare that struck at the heart of the fears surrounding the 2026 Padres. Pivetta was bad enough that the Padres getting just three hits and an unearned run off Tarik Skubal in six innings was hardly even noticeable. That happens a lot. Thursday was the 20th time in his past 63 starts that Skubal, winner of the past two American League Cy Young awards, has gone at least six innings while allowing three or fewer hits. The concern going into this season was about the quality and depth of the Padres’ starting pitching, and their best starting pitcher from last season began this one with his worst start in nearly two years. By alternately waiting out and pouncing on Pivetta, the Tigers scored four runs in the first inning, the most any opponent has ever scored in the 58 season-opening innings the Padres have been a major league club. Pivetta began the day by striking out Kerry Carpenter on three pitches. None of those pitches were in the strike zone, and the Tigers would not be as generous going forward. The next six batters would either get a hit on the first pitch they saw or walk, as Pivetta could not command his fastball and wasn’t all that successful chasing strikes with his curve. Pivetta’s third walk of the inning brought in the Tigers’ first run. Two pitches later, on a double by Kevin McGonigle and single by Dillon Dingler, it was 4-0. The Padres came to bat for the first time this season down by four and facing a pitcher who over the previous two seasons had allowed more than three runs just 13 times and a team that was 59-3 in that span when they scored four or more runs in one of his starts. None of that would matter after a while, as the Tigers added two runs against Pivetta in the third inning and got two more on Dillon Dingler’s home run off Ron Marinaccio in the fifth. And the Padres offered little challenge for Skubal after singles by Xander Bogaerts and Manny Machado with one out in the first inning. That gave the Padres runners at the corners. They would not get another runner on base until Fernando Tatis Jr. reached on an error with one out in the sixth inning. Tatis ended up scoring on Bogaerts’ double. The 19 pitches Skubal threw in that inning were six more than the left-hander threw in any of the previous five, and his third straight opening-day start ended after that. His experience was far different than that of Pivetta’s in his first opening-day start, which the 33-year-old right-hander earned by finishing last season with the National League’s sixth-best ERA , second-best WHIP and seventh-most innings .Pivetta, who threw 33 pitches while facing all nine Tigers batters in the first inning, got through the second inning in 15 pitches before yielding three more hits in the third.Pivetta allowed six runs in just one game last season, and that was at Coors Field. He walked more than two batters in a game just seven times in his 31 starts last season and only once issued three in an inning. In the eighth inning, the Padres got within a grand slam of being down two runs when they loaded the bases on a single and two walks against Tyler Holton before pinch-hitter Nick Castellanos flied out to center field in his first at-bat with the Padres.Fourth Padres suitor becomes publicOne shopping list, 12 San Diego grocery stores. This store was the cheapest.Play ball! We tried the new food at Petco Park this season. Here are our picks. El destructor de San Diego USS Gridley se dirige a Sudamérica para entrenar con el portaaviones Nimitz
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