Even before a COVID-19 firestorm swept up the Miami Marlins and torched their home opener Monday against the Orioles, the Padres’ report card showed two distinct grades.
On the field, an energizing “A.” In the dugout, a health and safety “F.”
They uncorked air-elbows with third-base coach Glenn Hoffman on home-run trots, then mauled each other at the on-deck circle like a rugby scrum. They hung elbow to elbow along the dugout rail with some spitting like a scene from an Old West saloon. The auxiliary dugout provided to create space, an opening weekend ghost town.