There will be cardboard cutouts behind home plate featuring pictures of people important to Padres players — family and coaches and teachers. Later in the season, television viewers might catch a cardboard Taylor Swift and local doctors and nurses down in the front row.
Each dugout has a hand sanitizer dispenser on the wall and bottles spread throughout the dugout. There are six-foot stretches of tape affixed to the benches that read “Please do not sit here” and “Por favor no se siente aqui.” Between them is a circle containing the MLB logo where it is permitted for a player or coach to sit during games.