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For subscribers: UC San Diego undergoes historic expansion fueled by Chancellor Pradeep Khosla’s big bucks and big ideas

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For subscribers: UC San Diego undergoes historic expansion fueled by Chancellor Pradeep Khosla’s big bucks and big ideas

In a cry for assist, UC San Diego college students turned to the varsity’s directors final 12 months and posed three questions that crystallized the severity of a campus housing scarcity lengthy within the making.

May the varsity present air mattresses for sofa browsing? Or flip a gymnasium into a short lived resort? Or give college students cash to e-book an Airbnb?

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COVID-19 had pressured UCSD to skinny out its dorms, serving to push 3,200 college students on to ready lists. However the greater causes had been the varsity’s spectacular development, and the shortage of reasonably priced housing close to campus.

One other scarcity looms. UCSD estimates that it’s going to welcome a file 44,000 college students this fall.

Chancellor Pradeep Khosla hopes to resolve the matter with a singular stroke.

As he finishes his tenth 12 months as chancellor, Khosla says he’s leaning towards practically doubling UCSD’s housing capability to about 40,000, in a plan that may embody lodging close to Blue Line Trolley stations, presumably stretching right through South County.

That’s greater than the quantity of people that stay in downtown San Diego and would allow UCSD to accommodate many of the 50,000 college students it expects to have by 2032.

Development continues on a UCSD village that may home 2,000 college students. (Ok.C. Alfred / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

The plan would value billions and can be along with a roughly $8.5-billion growth that’s already underway throughout the college.

Khosla disclosed the thought throughout conversations with the Union-Tribune forward of this weekend’s graduation ceremonies, throughout which a file 8,300 college students are eligible to get diplomas.

The timing of the announcement was surprising. The boldness of the transfer was not.

The chancellor is a grow-big, grow-fast, grow-now engineer who’s hyper-focused on the aim of all of it.

The College of California’s 9 undergraduate campuses are going through unprecedented demand for entry from potential freshman and switch college students and have to enormously increase — stat. The system obtained practically 211,000 purposes from potential freshman for the approaching fall quarter.

The 65-year-old Khosla usually quick-walks throughout campus, so stuffed with enthusiasm you half-expect him to tug blueprints out of the darkish fits he favors. On a latest morning he peered at a towering dorm rising within the mist and mentioned, “Go to the highest of the constructing. You may have a look at Tijuana. You may have a look at Catalina. You may look the place the Earth curves.”

He then seen an under-sized directional signal and mentioned: “I’ll name (workers) and say, ‘How come that signal shouldn’t be large enough?’ They get upset at me, saying, ‘You’re micro-managing.’

“I’m not,” he added. “I’m a buyer. I’m paying the invoice.”

Khosla is expert at sharing his desires, wishes and imaginative and prescient, as Assemblyman Kevin McCarty realized when he joined the chancellor on a kind of walks.

“Should you ask an educational what time it’s, a few of them will let you know methods to construct a clock,” McCarty, a Democrat from Sacramento, mentioned. “Pradeep is aware of methods to discuss to folks. He offers you a crystal clear path of what you may do collectively.”

That walk-and-talk helped lead McCarty to efficiently search state funding to construct housing at public schools and universities. To this point, UCSD stands to get $100 million out of a pool that may initially complete $500 million and will later rise to $2 billion. McCarty is also pushing a associated measure that would offer colleges with a complete of $5 billion in interest-free loans to construct housing. The proposal was closely influenced by Khosla.

UCSD forecasts that it’s going to have about 44,000 college students this fall.

(Hayne Palmour IV/The San Diego Union-Tribune)

The chancellor additionally has raised $3 billion in non-public donations over the previous decade, main one observer to marvel, “It’s like he plucks cash out of the sky.”

A lot of this arises from Khosla’s soft-touch means of courting folks. However not all of it. Geneticist Craig Venter, who just lately bought UCSD a analysis constructing for $25 million, says the chancellor’s non-public negotiating fashion will be “my means or the freeway.”

There have been missteps.

Throughout final 12 months’s housing scarcity, Khosla publicly mentioned, “We did the perfect we may. It’s what it’s.” A whole lot of college students are nonetheless fuming over that comment, and he is aware of it.

The chancellor, who lives in a big university-owned house on the bluffs above Blacks Seashore, acknowledges how “loopy” the off-campus rental market has turn out to be, and the way decided he’s to construct extra campus housing to alleviate the ache.

His mantra is “no car parking zone will get a view.” Which is to say that parking will go underground, leaving house for tall buildings, lots of them dorms. A campus that’s lengthy been largely a small city hidden by eucalyptus timber is turning into a metropolis with its personal skyline.

Crunch time

UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla speaks during a groundbreaking ceremony of a comprehensive revitalization project.

The talents Khosla is utilizing to advance UCSD had been developed way back and dovetail with San Diego’s ever-expanding pursuits in biotech, protection, power and laptop science.

He was born right into a middle-class household in Mumbai, India, a metropolis that’s house to lots of that nation’s main science facilities. His father bought wallpaper and his mom taught highschool English.

Khosla centered on schooling, incomes a bachelor’s diploma in electrical engineering on the elite Indian Institute of Know-how in 1980. He had the choice of finding out drugs however hated the sight of blood.

He moved to the U.S. later that 12 months and earned a grasp’s diploma and doctorate at Carnegie Mellon College in Pittsburgh, a college that grew to become a pivotal participant within the rise of the web, wi-fi, synthetic intelligence and software program that does things like match dwelling kidney donors to sufferers.

Khosla was a part of that rise. He joined the college and specialised in robotics. At one level he took a break from CMU to assist the federal authorities do analysis that will contribute to the evolution of the form of unmanned plane which might be presently developed in San Diego by Common Atomics and Northrop Grumman.

He went on to turn out to be CMU’s engineering dean and proved his knack for fundraising by elevating $90 million for a serious engineering heart.

Khosla turned out to be what UC Regents had been in search of. They appointed him chancellor in 2012, placing him in command of a campus that was struggling to achieve its potential.

UCSD’s enrollment was flat, at about 28,000. State funding for the UC system had been falling for years. The Nice Recession of 2008 made issues worse. And Gov. Jerry Brown and UC President Janet Napolitano had been quickly preventing over cash.

She wished much more of it. He wasn’t feeling that beneficiant.

Khosla regarded to the long run and thought that enrollment may sometime attain 42,000, possibly a bit extra. However that day wouldn’t arrive till 2035, on the earliest.

UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla addresses graduates during an all campus commencement ceremony at RIMAC Field in 2019.

Or so he thought.

Issues modified when the general public started urgent the UC to increase. Extra California highschool college students had been assembly the system’s eligibility necessities. And extra had been making use of for admission, together with to UCSD, which was turning heads by elevating greater than $1 billion a 12 months for analysis.

Khosla responded by closely recruiting non-California residents, who pay far greater tuition. His primary goal: China. Enrollment exploded, producing income that helped underwrite UCSD’s price range and partly lined the price of including extra California college students.

By fall 2021, within the midst of a pandemic, UCSD’s enrollment had climbed to just about 43,000, producing a scarcity of housing, school rooms and parking.

Different UC colleges — notably UCLA and UC Berkeley — adopted the same recruiting technique, attracting the eye of Assemblyman Phil Ting. He didn’t like what he noticed.

The colleges “centered on admitting out-of-state college students on the expense of in-state college students,” Ting, a San Francisco Democrat, informed the Union-Tribune final 12 months. “They deny that. However in the event you simply have a look at the numbers, it’s fairly clear.”

The Legislature ordered UCSD, UCLA and Berkeley to scale back the proportion of non-California college students it enrolls, costing the system hundreds of thousands. By then, although, California had a brand new governor, Gavin Newsom, who’s making historic investments within the UC.

Develop-mentum

A short while later Khosla dropped a bombshell, telling the Union-Tribune’s editorial board, “I can really think about we might be a campus of fifty,000 college students … There’s clearly a strain to develop.”

The comment got here because the Metropolitan Transit System was making ready to open the Blue Line Trolley extension it constructed between San Diego and La Jolla, a hyperlink that features two stops at UCSD. Khosla strongly backed the undertaking. However he didn’t absolutely admire its potential till he rode the trolley a few instances.

“I noticed the wilderness by way of which the sunshine rail was going, which you by no means see (from Interstate 5) … ,” Khosla mentioned. “I’m considering, that is San Diego. We’ve received a number of crises (together with housing). We ought to be creating this.”

The remarks signify a tectonic shift in considering.

Traditionally, UCSD has been largely content material to exist as an remoted Eden on the bluffs of La Jolla, largely shielded from sight by its terrain and proximity to the ocean.

Khosla doesn’t share that angle, saying that UCSD ought to incrementally increase south to higher serve the area. It led him to construct Park & Market, an occasions and schooling heart that just lately opened on the Blue Line within the East Village. The chancellor mentioned he’s not actively planning on creating an academic-oriented satellite tv for pc campus there, however has not dominated out the thought.

He’s already in growth mode.

UCSD is negotiating to buy the new Framework apartment building near the Blue Line in East Village.

Khosla is negotiating to purchase Framework, a brand new 87-unit residence constructing two blocks away on the nook of thirteenth and F streets that will be used to accommodate school and workers. A second housing complicated is a chance.

He is also contemplating buying or creating housing farther south.

“Something proximal to each Blue Line cease, in my thoughts, is a logical extension of this campus,” Khosla mentioned.

His backers embody Wealthy Leib, chairman-elect of the UC Board of Regents.

“Pradeep can marshal the forces UCSD wants to extend capability,” mentioned Leib, a San Diego businessman. “We have to deliver in additional college students, educate them, get them on the job market.”

Cry uncle

The place is that this all main?

The college’s neighbors wish to know. The super-competitive rental market in La Jolla-UTC is getting pricier, partly, as a result of college students are competing with everybody from biotech employees to nurses to accountants for a spot to stay. The common month-to-month rental for a studio in that space is $2,270. It’s $2,686 for a one-bedroom, $3,609 for a two-bedroom, and $4,412 for a 3.

“Khosla ought to simply inform us how massive the varsity goes to get so we all know how a lot site visitors and noise to anticipate,” mentioned Robert Patterson, a wealth administration skilled who lives in College Metropolis.

The chancellor has constructed, began or deliberate greater than 25 main tasks, together with the practically $1-billion Jacobs Medical Middle. He constructed a bridge throughout Interstate 5 to hyperlink the hospital and different core well being and medical services to the primary campus, throughout a interval when enrollment jumped by about 14,500.

Development is underway on the primary of six dormitories that may vary from 16 to 23 tales tall, and he plans to hunt approval for a village that may home 4,000 college students, which is roughly the inhabitants of Del Mar. The complicated is prone to value upwards of $1 billion.

The college additionally bolstered its already giant well being care system, which has given no less than one COVID-19 vaccine shot to about 370,000 sufferers, a quantity that’s far greater than all the UC’s different 4 main well being packages.

Daniel and Phyllis Epstein have donated $10 million to help build a major amphitheater at UCSD.

An outside amphitheater that may maintain practically 3,000 folks will open in October, not lengthy after a $185-million engineering heart debuts close by.

Khosla’s grand improvement plan is drawing blended opinions from college students.

The Union-Tribune mentioned the increase with 20 of them. Some appreciated it. Others mentioned the campus is rising too quick. Some additionally described Khosla as a distant determine who isn’t absolutely tuned in to their considerations.

“College students are in a relentless state of transition and turmoil,” mentioned Sophia Nguyen, a senior. “(Getting) admitted doesn’t essentially imply they are going to get a superb or high-quality school expertise.”

Artist's rendering of UCSD's planned Triton Center complex.

Troy Tuquero, one other senior, puzzled: “Do we’ve the housing that’s vital? Do we’ve the workers to handle that? I don’t assume the college is exhibiting that there’s a meticulous plan.”

Hayden Schill, a graduate scholar, mentioned, “I don’t assume the chancellor is empathetic towards college students …

“You need to care that the brand new grad housing items just lately constructed are unaffordable to many, care that college students need to the college for a form of management that invests in a clear future they want however don’t see it, care sufficient to spend money on psychological well being sources for college kids, and so forth …”

The disconnect between college students and the college was notably evident final July when the varsity despatched hundreds of undergraduates an e mail saying that UCSD had run out of accessible housing.

Almost all the recipients are members of Technology Z, or Zoomers, digital natives who typically don’t like, belief or learn e mail, say demographers. Some realized of their plight solely as a result of their mother and father received the identical e mail.

“My era has been raised with extra hand-holding than earlier generations,” mentioned Manu Agni, a Gen Z-er who simply completed a stint as president of Related College students.

“The college has isolation housing now for college kids who get COVID. College students anticipate the college to name them, decide them up, put them in a van and take them to a resort and provides them three meals a day.”

Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Schooling in Washington, D.C., doesn’t regard Khosla as callous or out of contact.

“There are college presidents and chancellors who exhibit their scholar centered-ness by being seen, speaking with college students, fixing ‘pot gap’ issues,” mentioned Mitchell, who has identified Khosla for years.

“And there are folks for whom this isn’t as efficient a use of their time as shifting the ‘massive rocks.’ Pradeep is a giant rock man. I believe that’s extremely admirable.”

Rajesh Gupta, founding director of UCSD’s Halıcıoğlu Information Science Institute, agrees.

“Pradeep has to grab the second,” he mentioned. “It is going to make UCSD ‘The Cal’ of Southern California, simply as Berkeley is ‘The Cal’ of Northern California.”

UCSD's new Park & Market center in San Diego includes a movie theater.

C’mon down

Individuals have lengthy joked that UCSD’s initials stand for College of California Socially Useless. Issues have improved a bit as enrollment soars. However doubts stay about whether or not Khosla, a foodie who likes to socialize, will ever obtain one in every of his largest objectives: turning the college into a serious public vacation spot that’s as beloved as Balboa Park and the Gaslamp Quarter.

UCSD doesn’t have a clearly outlined entrance. It hardly ever levels occasions that broadly enchantment to the general public. There’s no clutch of enjoyable eating places. The principle trolley station presently empties right into a building zone. Parking is a nightmare.

And the varsity offers off chilly vibes. There’s an indication posted exterior Prebys Live performance Corridor that claims: “No congregating in courtyard with out Music Dept. authorization. This consists of: music, dance, efficiency, and skateboarding.”

In that means, UCSD is the antithesis of the College of Arizona in Tucson, the place a full of life leisure and retail district that’s served by a jump-on, jump-off trolley results in the varsity’s massive entrance gate, which is flanked by public parking that’s near the varsity’s museum, planetarium and sports activities arenas.

Khosla was requested just lately whether or not he ought to think about hiring a public occasions director. He lit up, saying UCSD is within the means of doing simply that, which can allow the varsity to commonly host the whole lot from sizable outside concert events to meals and artwork festivals.

He promised outcomes, saying, “No one believes a pacesetter on Day One. However over time they do.”

Employees author Phillip Molnar contributed to this report.

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Padres Daily: Penned in; going after Ohtani; intentional thinking

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October 6, 2024

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Padres Daily: Penned in; going after Ohtani; intentional thinking

Good morning from Los Angeles,

What happened last night was about how it probably had to go for the Dodgers to beat the Padres.

The Dodgers do not have good starting pitching. They have an excellent bullpen and an even better offense.

Their starting pitcher got drilled. Their bullpen did not allow a run. Their offense scored a lot. That was the game.

We will get to some of the decisions made in the Padres’ 7-5 loss in Game 1 of the National League Division Series, because this is the time of year where every move can at least be questioned.

But this was not on manager Mike Shildt.

It was kind of on Dylan Cease, who got just 10 outs and allowed eight baserunners. Well, seven baserunners plus Shohei Ohtani jogging around the bases without stopping after hitting a 97 mph fastball that was not quite high enough to prevent him from hitting a three-run homer.

It was also kind of on the offense that did nothing for most of (and scored nothing for all of) the final six innings.

The Padres have scored one run in 18⅔ innings against relief pitchers this postseason.

“You get into playoff games, you have good bullpens you’re facing,” Shildt said. “That’s part of it. Clearly, we’re capable against any reliever. I thought we had some good at-bats, had some traffic out there. Had the go-ahead run at the plate late in the last inning. And our offense has been good all year. … We got (Yoshinobu) Yamamoto out of there early. Their bullpen came in, did the job. And we just weren’t able to get the big blow.”

Yes, the Braves and Dodgers have some excellent high-leverage relievers. But dating back to the final three weeks of the season, the Padres have endured a number of scoring droughts.

They have gone at least five innings without a run 11 times in their past 19 games. They didn’t score in the final six innings last night and went 11 batters without reaching base between Kyle Higashioka’s one-out double in the fourth and Jurickson Profar’s lead-off walk in the eighth. They were 2-for-11 with runners in scoring position.

That all added up to a wasted opportunity when they had leads of 3-0 and 5-3 against Yamamoto, who was pulled after three innings.

It’s difficult to pin a loss on an offense that scored five runs. Up until last night, the Padres were 67-8 when scoring at least five runs.

The problem is, you have to do what the game demands. And the Padres are facing a team that can hit against pretty much any pitcher. So last night’s game demanded the Padres score more.

“We know they are going to come back and they’re going to score runs,” Manny Machado said.

It was Machado who put the Padres up 3-0 with a two-run homer in the first inning that made 53,028 people about as quiet as such a gathering could be.

But the Padres were going against the Dodgers, who have the best player on earth playing his best and two former MVPs hitting directly behind him and then All-Stars hitting in two of the three spots after that.

“We knew it wasn’t going to be enough,” said Machado, who struck out in the eighth and ninth innings. “We have to continue stringing up good at-bats as a team and keep competing. … We did. We didn’t execute. We didn’t get so many hits off the bullpen. They came in and made their pitches. I think we had some good at-bats, and we just couldn’t get anything rolling until the last two innings.”

What they got going in the eighth inning was the lead-off walk by Profar, a one-out walk by Jackson Merrill and a two-out walk by Jake Cronenworth before Donovan Solano struck out.

What they got going in the ninth was a two-out single by Fernando Tatis Jr. and a walk by Profar before Machado struck out.

“After Yamamoto went out, I feel like they brought guys that just executed pitches,” Tatis said. “They were not afraid of attacking. And yeah, they silenced our bats for most of the game.”

You can read my game story (here) for the breakdown of events, as the Dodgers accomplished their mission of “fighting” in Game 1 plus more quotes from Tatis and Machado and some from Cease.

Going after him

Sure, this is what can happen when you pitch to Ohtani:

OH MY GOODNESS!!
SHOHEI OHTANI HOMERS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS POSTSEASON CAREER!!
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There is a school of thought that says that at this point you pitch around him in pretty much every crucial situation.

That is not the school in which Shildt is enrolled.

And there was evidence last night to support the Padres manager’s thinking, even if the lasting image is the home Cease allowed when there was a base open.

Ohtani singled against left-hander Adrián Morejón in the fourth inning on a 98 mph fastball that shattered his bat as the ball floated into center field at 67.8 mph.

Cease got Ohtani on a fly ball to start the bottom of the first. Jason Adam struck him out on three pitches to start the sixth. And Scott finished a strikeout of Ohtani on a 97 mph fastball above the zone with a runner on second and one down in the eighth.

Tanner Scott’s 2Ks in the 8th. pic.twitter.com/35XOmjRzsD
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) October 6, 2024

“He’s a good player,” Shildt said. “Clearly, he’s done some pretty special things this year. I feel good about — it’s just about execution. You’ve got to be even finer against really good players. But we have really good players, too. It’s just about the execution. … Morejón absolutely made a beautiful pitch and blew him up. And he got one into center field. I like Scott’s pitches against him, like Adam’s pitches against him. We executed. We were able to get him out. We just got something that was out over (from Cease) that he was able to get the meat of the bat on.”

All that said, Ohtani is 8-for-16 in his past four games against the Padres (over the past 12 days) and is batting .461 with a 1.439 OPS in 85 plate appearances since Sept. 11. In that span, he is batting .630 with a 2.100 OPS in 29 plate appearances with runners in scoring position.

Intentional reasoning

The player Shildt did notably avoid once was Mookie Betts, eschewing a 2-2 count and issuing an intentional walk to the Dodgers’ No.2 batter in the fourth inning.

The decision came after Morejón, who had entered the game to face Ohtani, yielded the broken-bat single to load the bases and then had a splitter get past Higashioka for a wild pitch that scored the lead runner and moved the other two runners up a base.

So with first base open, Shildt gave the free pass to the right-handed-hitting Betts to load the bases and bring up left-handed-hitting Freddie Freeman.

“I was surprised,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “I think Mookie was, too. Morejón just threw a ball in the dirt to give up a run. I don’t know if Mike was kind of leery of another wild pitch. Obviously, with two strikes, it typically doesn’t happen, and they wanted to take their chance with Freddie, which is one of those things, when you have good players, I think we’re in a good spot if it’s Mookie or Freddie. But I guess they just wanted that left-handed match-up.”

Yes. And there was more.

Shildt considered that Betts put the ball on the ground just 23.5% of the time against lefties this season and struck out just 8% of the time against lefties and walked 14% of the time he reached a 2-2 count against lefties.

“So now you can sit there and say, let’s tap dance around him,” Shildt said of his options. “No, let’s go to Freddie with Morejon, who throws 50 percent ground-ball rating against lefties. … So we go to Freddie to get the (grounder). And we got it.”

Freeman hit the first pitch he saw to the right side. Solano, playing first base, had to run to his right to field it and make a throw across his body to force out the runner at home for the second out.

With that, Shildt went to right-hander Jeremiah Estrada to face right-handed hitting Teoscar Hernández.

That did not go as planned, which does on its own did not make Shildt’s strategy wrong. Estrada simply threw a 98 mph fastball to the heart of the zone that Hernández lined to right-center field to drive in two runs and give the Dodgers their first lead of the night, at 6-5.

“We’ve got Estrada, who we like a lot,” Shildt said. “And we like a righty on Hernandez. And to his credit, put a swing and brought in two runs.”

One way or another

The throw Solano made after fielding Freeman’s soft grounder to get the out at home in the fourth inning was excellent.

The decision was at least debatable, in that it appeared he might have been able to get an inning-ending double play.

What a play by Donovan Solano to keep the run off of the board for the Padres! pic.twitter.com/g94FUlzwHy
— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) October 6, 2024
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Shildt believed the right play was to take out the run.

“I think when in doubt he made the right play,” Shildt said. “It was a tough play. But I don’t know (that) it’s an easy double play ball. It’s not hit hard. It’s going away. We’ve got a pitcher who has got to come over. I thought he made a good play. He’s making a baseball play to try to cut a run down, which he did. He’s smart. He knows we’ve got a guy coming in for the next guy. Made a good baseball play to keep it right there.”

Bounceback opportunity

The Padres have the experience of having won the 2022 NLDS in four games after dropping Game 1 to the Dodgers.

“It’s a different year,” Machado said.

Just three pitchers and three position players on the Padres’ roster for this series were on the ’22 Division Series roster.

So, the Padres chose to draw, instead, on what they have done this season.

Among their more resilient traits was that they lost consecutive games just four times in their final 65 games. (One of those times was last week against the Dodgers.)

Said Jake Cronenworth: “This team has done it all year — the ability to bounce back the next day after a tough loss and forget about what happened the day before.”

Xander Bogaerts, who has two World Series rings and last night played in his 48th postseason game, most on the Padres, talked about this last week.

“I feel like the bounce back ability is the best thing we might have,” he said. “You have some tough losses, it’s easy to come in the next day and be like, ‘(Expletive). I still remember that. That sucked.’ But the ability we have to turn the page real quick and come in the next day knowing we gotta go at it again and go about it the right way … you gotta have that, because when it comes to the playoffs, you’re not going to win every game.”

The Padres face Jack Flaherty tonight.

The Dodgers moved Flaherty back a day, in part to facilitate his work cleaning up some mechanical issues in the bullpen.

Flaherty allowed the Padres three runs in five innings on Sept. 25 and has allowed at least three runs in three straight starts.

Yu Darvish, who has a 3.55 ERA in five starts (25⅓ innings) since returning from an absence of more than three months while dealing with elbow soreness and a personal matter, starts for the Padres. (He was the winner in Game 2 two years ago, allowing three runs in five innings in the 5-3 victory.)

With an off day tomorrow, it would seem every reliever on both teams will be available today except perhaps Blake Treinen. He threw 39 pitches in 1⅔ innings to close out last night’s game. It was the most outs Treinen recorded in a game since 2021 and tied for his most pitches in a game since 2019.

You can read in Jeff Sanders’ notebook from yesterday (here) about Darvish’s relationship with Ohtani and the Padres’ pitching plans for later in the series. (Also — and I don’t know where he gets off — but Sanders had a couple tidbits in that notebook about Machado’s standing on the franchise’s all-time postseason list and a hard hit by Tatis.)

Kim changes rep

Even facing surgery to repair a tear in the labrum of his right shoulder and after a down offensive season, Ha-Seong Kim figures to be coveted for his defense in the middle of the infield and is expected to command more than the $8 million he would be due if he stayed with the Padres.

So there was not much question as to whether Kim would decline the option on his contract after this season.

And he sent a clear signal as to what direction he will choose by recently hiring the Boras Corporation to represent him. One does not hire Scott Boras at a time like this with the intention of remaining in an existing contract.

The 28-year-old Kim, who hit .233/.330/.370 in 120 games this season, has made $28 million in his four seasons since joining the Padres. The mutual option on his contract would pay him $8 million next season if both sides decided to exercise their option. The Padres will owe Kim $2 million if he opts out.

Tidbits

Tatis was 2-for-4 with a walk last night and is 6-for-10 with three walks in three postseason games. One thing almost always coincides with Tatis going on a tear offensively: excellent plate discipline. Tatis has chased just four of the 29 pitches (13.7%) he has seen outside the strike zone the past three games. That is less than half his chase rate in the regular season.
After going 0-for-7 in the wild-card series, Bogaerts was 2-for-4 with a two-run double last night.
Higashioka caught Dylan Cease last night for the first time since July 2. While the Padres have pretty strictly matched up their pitchers with the same catchers, the fact Higashioka entered yesterday having homered in three of his previous six at-bats won out. Said Shildt: “I’m no genius, but we’ll stick with that guy.” Higashioka was 1-for-2 with a double last night.
Profar walked twice last night, drove in a run with a groundout and finished 0-for-3. He is 1-for-10 this postseason.
The Padres’ 6 through 9 batters are 6-for-38 (.158) in the postseason. Three of the hits are by Higashioka and two are by Bogaerts. Donovan Solano, who has started all three games, including the two against right-handers, is 1-for-11. Jake Cronenworth is 0-for-9 with a walk, and he has been hit by a pitch.
Jackson Merrill worked a seven-pitch walk and a 10-pitch walk last night. He was 0-for-2 and scored a run and is 3-for-9 in the three postseason games.
If you missed the coverage from Friday, I wrote Friday (here) about Joe Musgrove needing Tommy John surgery. And Bryce Miller wrote a column (here) after talking with Sheel Seidler.

All right, that’s it for me.

Talk to you tomorrow.

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On Friar Podcast: Padres Start Fast, but Cease Struggles as Dodgers Take Game 1

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On Friar Podcast: Padres Start Fast, but Cease Struggles as Dodgers Take Game 1

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Hawaii vs. San Diego State FREE LIVE STREAM (10/5/24): Watch college football, Week 6 online | Time, TV, channel

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October 5, 2024

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Hawaii vs. San Diego State FREE LIVE STREAM (10/5/24): Watch college football, Week 6 online | Time, TV, channel

The Hawaii Rainbow Warriors led by quarterback Brayden Schager, face the San Diego State Aztecs, led by quarterback Danny O’Neil on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024 (10/5/24) at Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego, Calif.

How to watch: Fans can watch the game for free via a trial of DirecTV Stream or fuboTV. You can also watch via a subscription to Sling TV.

Here’s what you need to know:

What: NCAA Football, Week 6

Who: Hawaii vs. San Diego State

When: Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024

Where: Snapdragon Stadium

Time: 8 p.m. ET

TV: CBS Sports Network

Live stream: fuboTV (free trial), DirecTV Stream (free trial)

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Here are the best streaming options for college football this season:

Fubo TV (free trial): fuboTV carries ESPN, FOX, ABC, NBC and CBS.

DirecTV Stream (free trial): DirecTV Stream carries ESPN, FOX, NBC and CBS.

Sling TV ($25 off the first month)– Sling TV carries ESPN, FOX, ABC and NBC.

ESPN+($9.99 a month): ESPN+ carries college football games each weekend for only $9.99 a month. These games are exclusive to the platform.

Peacock TV ($5.99 a month): Peacock will simulstream all of NBC Sports’ college football games airing on the NBC broadcast network this season, including Big Ten Saturday Night. Peacock will also stream Notre Dame home games. Certain games will be streamed exclusively on Peacock this year as well.

Paramount+ (free trial): Paramount Plus will live stream college football games airing on CBS this year.

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Here’s a college football story via the Associated Press:

The ebb and flow of the college football season hits a low this week if measured by the number of Top 25 matchups.

The only one is No. 9 Missouri at No. 25 Texas A&M, the fewest since there were no ranked teams pitted against each other during Week 3 last season.

Maybe it’s karma for the weekend we enjoyed last week. Bookending it were the Miami-Virginia Tech did-he-catch-it-or-not ending and that fantastic Alabama-Georgia finish.

Of course, there still are important games this week besides the Southeastern Conference showdown in College Station, Texas.

No. 12 Mississippi, upset by Kentucky at home, is in bounce-back mode on the road against a South Carolina team that beat the Wildcats by 25 points in Week 2.

No. 22 Louisville has a tough follow-up to its loss to Notre Dame when high-scoring SMU visits.

No. 3 Ohio State faces its biggest challenge to date when breakout star Kaleb Johnson leads Iowa into the Horseshoe.

Texas Tech, picked in the bottom half of the Big 12 preseason poll, has won four of five to start the season and gets a measuring-stick game at Arizona.

And don’t forget the Commander-In-Chief’s Trophy series, which gets underway with unbeaten Navy at struggling Air Force.

Best game

No. 9 Missouri (4-0, 1-0 SEC) at No. 25 Texas A&M (4-1, 2-0), Saturday, noon ET (ABC)

Missouri hopes to play like a top-10 team in its road opener. The Tigers had to erase a 14-3 halftime deficit to beat Boston College and had to go two overtimes to get past Vanderbilt. They’ve had a week off to sort things out, mainly uncharacteristic red-zone and third-down struggles against Vandy.

The Aggies have won four straight since a close loss to Notre Dame. Marcel Reed has started the last three games at quarterback in place of the injured Connor Weigman. A&M coach Mike Elko said Weigman would be a game-time decision. Whoever starts, he’ll be going against the toughest defense the Aggies have faced.

BetMGM Sportsbook lists the Aggies as 2 1/2-point favorites.

Heisman watch

Ashton Jeanty is the best player in the Group of Five. How about the best in all of college football?

The folks at Boise State would argue he is, and the betting public is starting to take notice. He’s the No. 4 choice on BetMGM Sportsbook at 10-1 odds to win the Heisman Trophy, still well behind Alabama’s Jalen Milroe, Miami’s Cam Ward and Colorado’s Travis Hunter.

Alabama’s Derrick Henry was the last running back to win the Heisman, in 2015, and no player from a Group of Five school, as it would be defined now, has ever won it.

Jeanty is the nation’s leading rusher and has gone over 200 yards twice in four games. He had 259 yards and four touchdowns against Washington State last week, with 234 yards coming after contact. He forced 17 missed tackles.

He could put up equally prodigious numbers against Utah State’s porous defense Saturday.

Numbers to know

0 — First-quarter points allowed by Clemson.

9 — Mississippi WR Tre Harris’ nation-leading number of plays of at least 30 yards.

38 — Navy has scored at least this many points in its first four games of a season for the first time in the program’s 144-year history.

1971 — Year of Iowa State’s most recent conference road shutout before last week’s 20-0 win at Houston.

1994 — Year Duke last opened a season 5-0.

Under the radar

Rutgers (4-0, 1-0 Big Ten) at Nebraska (4-1, 1-1), Saturday, 4 p.m. ET (FS1)

The Scarlet Knights probably merit more attention for their best start since 2012. They’re coming off close wins at Virginia Tech and at home against Washington. A road win against a Nebraska team on the rise under second-year coach Matt Rhule almost certainly would end their 12-year absence from the Top 25.

The Cornhuskers are looking for their offense to be sharper than it was in an ugly win at Purdue last week. A victory over Rutgers would move Nebraska within one win of bowl eligibility for the first time since 2016.

Hot seat

Florida State’s Mike Norvell has seen his fortunes turn dramatically.

A year ago, the Seminoles were on their way to 13-0 and an ACC championship before they were snubbed by the College Football Playoff committee because of an injury to their quarterback. A 63-13 Orange Bowl loss to Georgia was considered a one-off considering the Seminoles were No. 10 in the preseason Top 25 and predicted to win the ACC.

But here they sit, 1-4 with No. 15 Clemson up next. The offense is averaging just 15.2 points, the passing game has produced just four touchdowns and six interceptions and the run game is the fourth-least productive in the country. Brock Glenn will take over at quarterback for the injured DJ Uiagalelei.

Norvell was rewarded for last season with an eight-year, $84 million contract extension, and the Tallahassee Democrat reported his buyout would be $65 million. That should be enough to make his bosses think twice, or three times, about making a change.

(The Associated Press contributed to this report)

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