Padres ace Yu Darvish facing Diamondbacks in sixth game of the season in his 2023 debut
prepared for a long spring without a number of the Padres’ stars, the Padres manager was asked about the specific impact of“Probably the last guy I worry about.”toe injury, has certainly had an effect on the start of the season.into the second spot in the rotation and left-handermade the fifth start of the season, but today the 36-year-old Darvish gets his chance to show why Melvin was so confident on Feb. 4.
Darvish threw just 93 pitches during the World Baseball Classic, four innings in a minor league spring training game after helping Japan win the gold medal and on Saturday was up to 80 pitches in another camp game.“Well there is for everybody a little bit at this point,” Melvin said Monday afternoon. “He did get up to 80 pitches . If you were to ask him, he’d say he’s got 100 pitches in him. … We’ll see how it goes.
Darvish lowered his ERA from 4.22 in 2021 to 3.10 while winning 16 games in his second year as a Padre. He went on to post a 2.88 ERA over four postseason starts, buoying the Padres’ confidence so much that he was inked to a six-year, $108 million deal in February. He’ll make his first start against an Arizona team he handled quite well in 2022 as he went 4-0 with a 1.97 ERA, 31 strikeouts and an 0.84 WHIP over five starts last year against the Diamondbacks.Manny Machado
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