Typically, it takes a long time to establish a rivalry.

Even if Yu Darvish had not been forced to the Injured List with an elbow issue, Randy Vasquez might have been the 5th man in the Padres starting rotation.

A big inning and a comeback win, where have we heard this before?

On the first day of the Major League Baseball season, the Padres and Braves played a tight, taught contest that ping ponged back and forth all day long at Petco Park.

The 2025 San Diego Padres All Petco Park gates will open at 11 a.m. for Opening Day as the first pitch is scheduled for 1:10 p.m. as they play against the Atlanta Braves Dorothy Gee, the oldest sibling of the popular Bucket List Family on YouTube and Instagram, will throw the game’s Ceremonial First Pitch accompanied by her father, Garrett.

Sure, watching Manny Machado smash one over the fence is top-tier glee.

By the end of the 2024 baseball season, it was easy to make the argument — and you probably wouldn’t get a whole lot of pushback for doing so — that there were two teams capable of winning the World Series: 1) The Dodgers, who did so without much of a challenge from the Yankees.