Campfire’s octopus, chorizo, and celery-root entrée.
Gage Forster
Gavin Sheets was smiling a bit as he walked off the field Sunday afternoon, so Padres manager Mike Shildt had the green light to add even more levity as he discussed the aftermath of his 6-foot-3, 235-pound slugger slamming face first into the padded wall in left field after running 85 feet at 23.9 mph as he tried to make a play on Adam Frazier’s fourth-inning homer.
“I think the fence is OK,” Shildt said after a 6-4 win over the Pirates. “I’m not sure. I think Mat Balough, the groundskeeper, is going to check on it, and I’ll get you an update on the wall.”
Shildt said Sheets is day-to-day with a head contusion, a sore hip and a jammed wrist and thumb. The hip is the sorest spot of the ailments on that checklist, while the team is still testing for concussion symptoms.
“Those are tests that take a while,” Shildt said. “There’s some symptoms that they want make sure they either don’t show up or go away, and so we’re still in the process of evaluating that.”
Sheets walked briefly through the clubhouse after the game, but did not speak with the media. He was expected to be on the plane to San Francisco.
Which is good news for a team that can’t afford to be without one of its most potent hitters.
Sheets’ 34 RBIs lead the Padres and his 11 home runs are second on the team. A significant portion of that production has come in the past two weeks, as the rest of the Padres’ offense has hardly existed.
Six of his home runs and 12 of his RBIs had come in the 13 games leading up to Sunday, a span in which the rest of the Padres hit seven homers and drove in 25 runs.
He has seven go-ahead RBIs, fourth on the team, and seven game-tying RBIs, which lead the team.
It was on Frazier’s home run leading off the fourth inning that Sheets was injured.
Sheets reached up at the last instant while running face-first into the wall. His left shoulder hit the wall just before his face did, and his arm was then caught between his body and the wall.
Sheets immediately bounced off the wall as the ball bounced up off the top wall and into seats.
As Sheets lay on his back on the warning track, Jackson Merrill ran over from center field and knelt over Sheets. He put his hand on his chest and motioned with his glove toward the dugout.
Athletic trainer Ben Fraser and Shildt ran out, followed by head athletic trainer Mark Rogow.
Sheets stayed on his back for a few minutes before sitting up and then quickly standing.
By that time, some smiles had been cracked.
Behind the group, the area of the padded wall where Sheets’ arm had hit remained indented.
As Sheets walked in with the trainers and Shildt, there were more smiles and laughter.
“He already in the last couple hours … is improving,” Shildt said. “But he’s a little banged up, understandably. What an effort.”
Michael King did not pitch Sunday, but he caught himself wondering — tongue in cheek — if he had pitched as reporters crowded around him after he dressed Sunday afternoon.
King had not been in the clubhouse all week during media availability, so he attempted to add some clarity to the pinched nerve that sent him to the injured list last weekend.
“I think figuring out what it was, went through all the different tests and everything came back clean, which is great,” King said. “I think the thing that we now know is that it was probably a pinched nerve that shut down some, like, muscle function. And now that I went through all the tests and everything was clear, it’s really just building up that muscle again, so it’s definitely making progress, and I’m feeling a lot better than I did a week ago.”
King has played light catch a couple of times to keep the arm moving. He expects the ramp-up to be measured in days, but he is not close enough to join the team on the trip to San Francisco. Instead, he expects to visit with specialists to address any unanswered questions ahead of a return.
The timetable on that is TBD.
“I don’t know if there is an understanding. Dr. (Bryan Leek) with us has said that he has seen a lot of progress in me, so he doesn’t expect it to be very long. He said that he’s seen some guys take a couple days, some guys take a couple months, and I think that I’m more on the former of that just because the progress I’ve had.”
A step forward?
Yu Darvish threw six or seven pitches from the bullpen Saturday, played catch on Sunday morning and feels good enough to progress to the next step: A bullpen in San Francisco, either on Monday or Tuesday.
That will be his first full session since throwing 51 pitches in four innings in a rehab start at Las Vegas on May 14.
“I’m just excited,” Darvish said. “Feel good. Just sucks when I get hurt, can’t throw the ball, but now it’s good, so I’m happy.”
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SANDY, Utah — SANDY, Utah (AP) — Sergi Solans had two goals and an assist, Diego Luna added a goal and two assists, and Real Salt Lake beat San Diego FC 4-2 on Saturday night to extend its unbeaten streak to six games.
Morgan Guilavogui scored his first goal in MLS and had an assist for Real Salt Lake (5-1-1). The 28-year-old designated player has five goal contributions in his first six career games.
RSL hasn’t lost since a 1-0 defeat at Vancouver in the season opener.
San Diego (3-3-2) has lost three in a row and is winless in five straight.
Luna opened the scoring in the fifth minute when he re-directed a misplayed pass by Duran Ferree, San Diego’s 19-year-old goalkeeper, into the net.
Moments later, Solans headed home a perfectly-placed cross played by Luna from outside the right corner of the 18-yard box to the back post to make it 2-0. Solans, a 23-year-old forward, flicked a header from the center of the area inside the right post and past the outstretched arm of Ferree to make it 3-1 in the 37th minute.
Guilavogui slammed home a first-touch shot to give RSL a three-goal lead in the 45th.
Marcus Ingvartsen scored a goal in the 14th minute and Anders Dreyer converted from the penalty spot in the 66th for San Diego.
Ingvartsen has five goals and an assist this season and has 10 goal contributions (seven goals, three assists) in 16 career MLS appearances.
Rafael Cabral had three saves for RSL.
Ferree finished with five saves.
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When John Resnick opened Campfire on a quaint little street in Carlsbad, Calif., in 2016, some locals weren’t sure what to think. The coastal enclave wasn’t exactly awash in innovative, chef-driven establishments, so it was a shock to see the dining room consistently full. Early on, one woman wondered aloud to Resnick, “Where did all these people come from?”
It’s a moment he remembers vividly. “I was struck by her statement, because I think she was surprised that so many other people in Carlsbad were there,” Resnick says.
The rest of the culinary world would take some time to catch up to what was happening. In 2019, when Michelin expanded to rate restaurants throughout all of California—not just the San Francisco area—Addison was the only one in San Diego to earn a star. But since emerging from the pandemic, the region’s food scene has grown dramatically. Driven by outstanding farms, ingredients, a bumper crop of talented chefs, and a G.D.P. approximately the size of New Zealand or Greece, San Diego County has become one of America’s most underrated dining destinations.
Campfire’s octopus, chorizo, and celery-root entrée.
Gage Forster
Perhaps no single restaurant is a better emblem for this shift than chef William Bradley’s Addison, which opened in 2006. After landing his first star, Bradley knew he wanted more. To get them, he transformed his French-leaning fare to serve what he calls California Gastronomy, which combines the cultures of SoCal with impeccable ingredients and wildly impressive techniques, prizing flavor over flair. Michelin responded, awarding Addison a second star in 2022, and making it the first Southern California three-star restaurant just a year later. The accolade has created a halo effect, attracting culinary tourists from around the world.
Berry beet tartlets at San Diego’s three-star stalwart Addison.
Eric Wolfinger
“Earning three stars forces the global dining community to pay attention to a place that may not have been on their radar before,” says chef Eric Bost, a partner in Resnick’s four Carlsbad establishments.
Resnick recruited Bost, who spent time at award-winning outposts of Restaurant Guy Savoy, to run Jeune et Jolie, which he led to a star in 2021. They’ve since taken over an old boogie-board factory down the street and converted it to an all-day restaurant and bakery, Wildland. The space also hosts an exquisite tasting-counter experience called Lilo, which was given a Michelin star mere months after opening in April 2025. And as Resnick and Bost grew their successful Carlsbad operation, chef Roberto Alcocer earned a Michelin star for his Mexican fine-dining spot Valle in nearby Oceanside.
The stylish tasting counter at Michelin one-star Lilo in Carlsbad.
Kimberly Motos
About 25 miles to the south, another affluent coastal community is going through its own culinary glow up. In La Jolla, chef Tara Monsod and the hospitality group Puffer Malarkey Collective opened the stylish French steakhouse Le Coq. Chef Erik Anderson, formerly of Michelin two-star Coi, is preparing to launch Roseacre. And last year, Per Se alums Elijah Arizmendi and Brian Hung left New York to open the elegant tasting-menu restaurant Lucien, lured by the ingredients they’d get to serve. “A major reason we chose San Diego is the quality and diversity of the produce,” Arizmendi explains. “San Diego County has more small farms than anywhere else in the U.S., and its many microclimates allow farmers to grow an incredible range of ingredients year-round.”
Wildland’s spicy Italian sandwich.
Gage Forster
Chef Travis Swikard has also been a tireless advocate for the region’s ingredients since he returned to San Diego, his hometown, and opened Mediterranean-influenced Callie in 2021. There’s no sophomore slump with his latest effort, the French Riviera–inspired Fleurette in La Jolla, where he’s serving his take on classics like leeks vinaigrette and his San Diego “Bouillabaisse” with local red sheepshead fish and spiny lobster. Its food is bright, produce-driven, and attentive in execution, while the dining room maintains a relaxed and unpretentious style of service. And Swikard sees that approach cohering into a regional style with a strong network of professionals behind it.
“It’s really nice that we are developing our own identity, not trying to be like L.A. or any other market, just highlighting what’s great about the San Diego lifestyle and ingredients,” he says. “Similar to New York, a chef community is starting to develop where chefs are supporting each other. There is a true sense of pride to be cooking here.”
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