The Padres are 4-0 for the just second time in their 57 years of being a Major League Baseball team. In that 97.5% of this season remains, it is far more significant how they got there. They did it with four days of nearly flawless baseball, or about as close as a team can come in a game in which perfection over any length of time is impossible. At the start of the Padres’ 5-0 victory over the Braves on Sunday, Nick Pivetta came close to achieving it across seven scoreless innings, during which he faced the minimum 21 batters. […]
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