This isn’t a video game.
The Padres’ relief pitchers can’t just be powered up with the start of a new game.
If it was possible to click a reset button, manager Andy Green wouldn’t be compelled to sit Kirby Yates a third straight day. And Trey Wingenter wouldn’t be on the injured list. And Robert Stock wouldn’t be throwing more balls than strikes.
And Gerardo Reyes would not have batted in the seventh inning of a game the Padres led by one run with a runner on second base.
“That gives you an idea how tired that bullpen is,” Green said Wednesday after Reyes struck out in his first professional plate appearance between his perfect work on the mound in the seventh and eighth innings.