The first game of a highly anticipated season begins with a whimper by the Padres' lineup; three home runs fuel Rockies' rout
There was little chance it could live up to the mountainous expectation. Not that it had to.
The team with the third-highest payroll in the majors went bust on a cold and, for a time, wet opening night Thursday at sold out Petco Park. Cron, whose single in the first inning gave the Rockies a 1-0 lead, also hit a solo homer in the seventh inning to tie a 25-year-old Rockies record with five RBIs on opening day.
The Padres two runs were driven in by outs — Machado’s sacrifice fly in the first inning and a fielder’s choice grounder by Matt Carpenter in the fourth.Snell was his usual early season self, throwing plenty of brilliant pitches but too many of them. Thursday’s first pitch was preemptively pushed back 5½ hours from its originally scheduled time of 1:10 p.m. The forecasted rain did fall at times in the afternoon, and it wasn’t finished after dark.
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