Winners of 8 straight, the Padres are getting the right bounces on and off the field

SAN DIEGO — The ping-pong table is black, with an arched aluminum base and a swinging friar logo emblazoned across the top. It arrived in the home clubhouse at Petco Park in October, just after the San Diego Padres exited the postseason, and people with the club say the multi-hundred-pound contraption required a four-figure investment. The same model is touted online as the “best in high-end table tennis tables.”Advertisement