SignOnSanDiego.com · Apr 25, 2019
Column: Hernandez, Mariners wowed by Padres’ unflappable Chris Paddack
(Nelvin C. Cepeda/The San Diego Union-Tribune) Padres rookie pitcher Chris Paddack fights out of a bases-loaded jam in the first inning Wednesday against the Mariners at Petco Park.High-powered Seattle walks away impressed — and losers — after rookie’s gem Wednesday at Petco Park.
Wonder how to gauge what 23-year-old Chris Paddack did Wednesday to the formerly white-hot Seattle Mariners, a team that has punished baseballs like a WWE wrestler playing whack-a-mole at a mall arcade?
Start at the Petco Park visitors’ clubhouse locker of Felix Hernandez, a Cy Young winner and All-Star six times over who has faced more than 11,000 hitters in nearly 2,700 big-league innings during 15 seasons.