Kevin Reynolds

Kevin Reynolds was an intern at The San Diego Union-Tribune covering sports and news.

San Diego Loyal players walk out to the field after half-time during game against Phoenix Rising at USD's Torero Stadium on Saturday, July 24, 2021.(Photo by Sandy Huffaker for The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Newly promoted Ricardo Campos talks SD Loyal stadium expansion, fan base growth

August 22, 2021 at 7:15 p.m.

It’s been one month since Warren Smith unexpectedly resigned as team president of the San Diego Loyal citing “personal issues” related to his mental health. The move temporarily left the...

San Diego Padres third baseman Manny Machado, front, and second baseman Jake Cronenworth wait for relief pitcher Nabil Crismatt to take the mound in the eighth inning of the team's baseball game against the Colorado Rockies on Tuesday, June 15, 2021, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Stat Stories: History of NL Wild Card says Padres’ August performance puts them in real jeopardy

August 19, 2021 at 6:01 p.m.

What’s the saying for when an avalanche of negatives starts to consume a team?When one thing goes bad, it all goes bad?Maybe. If it is, it would be an apt...

Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Jake Arrieta winds up during the first inning of the team's baseball game against the New York Mets on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Stat Stories: With waning velocity and climbing age, Jake Arrieta hopes for last wind with Padres

August 16, 2021 at 9:16 p.m.

When the Cubs released Jake Arrieta last week, team President Jed Hoyer adopted the message that Arrieta needed a pitching rehabilitation. And that rehabilitation simply could not happen in Chicago.Not...

SAN DIEGO, CA - APRIL 01: San Diego Padres pitcher Yu Darvish throws against the Arizona Diamondbacks on opening day at Petco Park on Thursday, April 1, 2021 in San Diego, CA. (K.C. Alfred / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Stat Stories: Spin rate of Padres starters not affected by sticky-stuff crackdown

August 12, 2021 at 8:53 p.m.

After going six innings and allowing one run on Monday, Joe Musgrove sat down and hinted that maybe the Padres' starting rotation was back.It was Musgrove’s fourth consecutive start of...

Jayce Tingler, shown in April working as Texas Rangers' major league field coordinator, is the Padres' new manager.

Stat Stories: Jayce Tingler’s experience reconstructing Ian Desmond may be prescient for Tatis Jr.’s future

August 9, 2021 at 6:37 p.m.

Nearly every day before the 2016 MLB season, Jayce Tingler would walk to the outfield at the old Globe Life Park and hit fly balls to an $8-million shortstop.Yes, you...

San Diego Padres' Jurickson Profar, left, is tagged out by Oakland Athletics' Sean Murphy on a double hit by Trent Grisham during the fourth inning of a baseball game in Oakland, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Jed Jacobsohn)

Stat Stories: Padres’ recent base running miscues something that can be cleaned up

August 6, 2021 at 9:48 p.m.

The Padres are the most aggressive base running team in MLB this season. Usually, they are also among the smartest.But the last two weeks, and the rash of outs on...

Jack Blake is the leading goal scorer for the Loyal in 2021.

Jack Blake signs extension with SD Loyal, even as MLS potential looms

August 12, 2021 at 9:27 p.m.

Jack Blake has spent the better half of the last four years trying to find a pathway to Major League Soccer. The San Diego Loyal midfielder bounced around in the...

Eric Hosmer of the San Diego Padres hits a grand slam in the 5th inning against the Texas Rangers at Petco Park on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020.

Stat Stories: Can Eric Hosmer be key piece for Padres down stretch?

August 3, 2021 at 11:07 p.m.

Eric Hosmer’s approach to coping with the trade deadline essentially amounted to this: Pretend it didn’t happen.Hosmer said he wouldn’t have a talk with Padres General Manager AJ Preller, even...

The US Teqball Federation is hosting a world tournament qualifier in San Diego on July 31.

Olympic hopeful sport, teqball, set to begin world qualifying event in San Diego

July 31, 2021 at 12:07 a.m.

Ajay Nwosu had a moment of clarity last weekend as he sat on the couch watching skateboarding in the Tokyo Olympics. Something about the untraditional Olympic sport spoke to him....

Cage Warriors, a breeding ground for many future UFC fighters, will make its first appearance in San Diego on Aug. 1.

On the heels of a marital ultimatum, MMA arrives in San Diego

July 31, 2021 at 12:11 a.m.

Graham Boylan was given a two-year marital ultimatum.He had just married his wife and was living in London at the time. He was overseeing Cage Warriors fight cards and growing...

Minnesota Twins pitcher Jose Berrios throws against the Chicago White Sox in the first inning of a baseball game Tuesday, July 6, 2021, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

Stat stories: Surveying Padres’ potential starting pitching candidates

July 27, 2021 at 7:18 p.m.

The Padres may have gotten an All-Star hitter in Adam Frazier on Sunday, but the heavy lifting is still to come.The Padres are in the market for a pitcher, more...

SD Loyal go dormant on offense, drop final game of the homestand to Phoenix

July 25, 2021 at 5:12 a.m.

Alejandro Guido stood 18 yards away, on the right side of the box, with what looked to be the San Diego Loyal's best chance of the night. Phoenix goalie Andre...

Aodhan Quinn, a midfielder for the Phoenix Rising, will return to San Diego this weekend.

Aodhan Quinn, son of San Diego soccer legend, set to make unique homecoming against SD Loyal

August 4, 2021 at 9:41 p.m.

Sharon Quinn already has the custom T-shirts printed with the lettering “Quinn’s Rising” stitched across the breastplate.Brian Quinn has even slightly more planned for his son’s soccer homecoming this weekend....

Shai Buium, a San Diego native, is an 18-year-old projected to be a first-round pick in the 2021 NHL draft.

San Diego native Shai Buium is on brink of unlikely NHL career

July 23, 2021 at 8:50 p.m.

As Shai Buium paces in the back of a Marriott Hotel, watching the NHL Draft bleed into the late hours, one thing will be certain. He will at least look...

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 16: Jake Cronenworth #9 of the San Diego Padres hits a single during the sixth inning to hit for the cylce against the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park on July 16, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Will Newton/Getty Images)

Stat Stories: Despite missing out on sweep, Padres re-establish offense in first series back

July 19, 2021 at 8:09 p.m.

It was a play that could have gone either way Sunday. Tommy Pham was jammed on a 94 mph sinker and fought it off in the vicinity of shallow right...

Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove throws against the St. Louis Cardinals on May 14.

Stat Stories: Analyzing what’s wrong with Joe Musgrove’s slider

July 17, 2021 at 5:42 p.m.

Here’s the thing about the slider: It's a fickle pitch. Some days it’s there and some days it isn't without much a pitcher can do about it. It is just...

Loyal fans celebrate a goal at USD Torero Stadium. Warren Smith was an advocate for trying to build a new stadium in San Diego.

SD Loyal’s inaugural president, Warren Smith, steps down, cites ‘personal issues’

July 17, 2021 at 12:36 a.m.

San Diego Loyal President Warren Smith spent the last several weeks taking stock of his mental health and his life.Over the last 18 months, Smith lost family and friends as...

BLAINVILLE-BOISBRIAND, QC - OCTOBER 02: Head coach Joel Bouchard of the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada gives instructions to Kristian Pospisil #96 during the QMJHL game against the Charlottetown Islanders at the Centre d'Excellence Sports Rousseau on October 2, 2015 in Blainville-Boisbriand, Quebec, Canada. (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)

Gulls explain move to let go of Dineen, introduce Bouchard

July 13, 2021 at 1:08 a.m.

As he introduced Joel Bouchard as the next coach of the San Diego Gulls, Bob Murray said he had been planning this move for over a year.The Anaheim Ducks executive...

San Diego, CA - JULY 8: San Diego Padres' Daniel Camarena celebrates with teammates after hitting a grand slam in the 4th inning against the Washington Nationals at Petco Park on Thursday July 8, 2021 in San Diego, CA. (K.C. Alfred / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Stat stories: Daniel Camarena’s grand slam as statistically unlikely as you’d expect

July 10, 2021 at 7:59 p.m.

Daniel Camarena didn’t even own his own bat or batting gloves until the beginning of this season. His minor league lockermate Gosuke Katoh loaned him some in the spring and...

Stat stories: Daniel Camarena’s grand slam as statistically unlikely as you’d expect

July 10, 2021 at 4:18 a.m.

Daniel Camarena didn’t even own his own bat or batting gloves until the beginning of this season. His minor league lockermate Gosuke Katoh loaned him some in the spring and...

Miguel Ibarra delivers a for SD Loyal in last Saturday's match against the Sacramento Republic.<br/><br/>

How Miguel Ibarra’s second act with SD Loyal represents niche of roster construction in USL

July 9, 2021 at 10:51 p.m.

It wasn’t long ago that Miguel Ibarra was seriously considering retirement.The MLS offers had dried up. His days in Liga MX, the top league of Mexican soccer, were five years...

San Diego Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr., right, steals second base next to San Francisco Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford during the sixth inning of a baseball game in San Francisco, Saturday, May 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Stat stories: Making sense of the NL West

July 9, 2021 at 1:06 p.m.

The NL West standings have been an unforgiving place for teams trying to get separation this season.The Giants know that well. They have been in first place every day now...

Toni Rocak, a senior on the UC San Diego men's basketball team, is an international college athlete who may not stand to benefit from new NIL laws.

As college athletes benefit from NIL, international counterparts are left out

July 6, 2021 at 3:05 a.m.

He sits inside a cramped San Diego apartment, Switzerland jersey hanging above his head and slanted wall caving in on his 6-foot-8 frame, gathering his thoughts about the future.He knows...

San Diego Loyal blow another late lead, tie Sacramento

July 4, 2021 at 2:42 a.m.

As Sacramento forward Mitchell Taintor headed in the equalizing goal in the final minute of stoppage time on Saturday, it was a play Landon Donovan felt as though he had...

CINCINNATI, OHIO - JUNE 29: Tommy Pham #28 of the San Diego Padres runs the bases after hitting a solo home run in the fourth inning during their game against the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ball Park on June 29, 2021 in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Photo by Emilee Chinn/Getty Images)

Stat stories: Tommy Pham’s leadoff production for Padres reaches historic levels

July 2, 2021 at 4:01 p.m.

Before Tommy Pham even made it to the end of the dugout Sunday, methodically making his way down a line of teammates waiting to congratulate him on a leadoff home...

SAN DIEGO, CA - JUNE 23: San Diego Padres' Victor Caratini rounds the bases after hitting a home run off of Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer in the 7th inning at Petco Park on Wednesday June 23, 2021 in San Diego, CA. (K.C. Alfred / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Stat stories: Caratini’s big hits on homestand exactly what Padres need more of at bottom of order

June 29, 2021 at 12:25 a.m.

It’s hard to say exactly what this last homestand was about for the Padres, or pinpoint what it all meant in the broad scheme of a 162-game season.In some ways,...

SAN DIEGO, CA - APRIL 01: San Diego Padres's Jake Cronenworth hits a triple in the 7th inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks on opening day at Petco Park on Thursday, April 1, 2021 in San Diego, CA. (K.C. Alfred / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Stat stories: Padres, Diamondbacks two teams in different worlds

June 25, 2021 at 1:06 p.m.

Let’s first establish the obvious: The Arizona Diamondbacks are bad.It doesn’t take long to see it. Just look at the last week. It serves as a sufficient case study in...

SAN DIEGO, CA - JUNE 18: Trent Grisham #2 of the San Diego Padres hits an RBI double during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds at Petco Park on June 18, 2021 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Denis Poroy/Getty Images)

Stat stories: Why Padres’ Trent Grisham has the most to gain from MLB’s crackdown on sticky stuff

June 22, 2021 at 2:41 a.m.

The power shifts back to the hitter Monday. More specifically, the power shifts back to Trent Grisham.Or at least that is the way the Padres’ center fielder is hoping it...

San Diego Padres' Jake Cronenworth walks back to the dugout after striking out in the eighth inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets Saturday, June 5, 2021, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Derrick Tuskan)

Stat Stories: Departing from patience, will Padres’ more aggressive approach solve their offensive woes?

June 17, 2021 at 10:56 p.m.

Sitting inside Coors Field this week after the Padres dropped their 12th game in 16 days, manager Jayce Tingler made somewhat of a surprising remark about what it would take...

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