Alexander: Is Dodgers-Padres a rivalry yet?

SAN DIEGO — It was well over three decades ago. The Dodgers and Padres had had a typical baseball skirmish, and afterward Tom Lasorda and San Diego infielder-pinch hitter Kurt Bevacqua traded barbs. Bevacqua, along with his manager, Dick Williams, accused Lasorda of ordering his pitchers to throw at hitters. Lasorda responded that he’d never do that – but if he did he especially wouldn’t throw at Bevacqua, who “couldn’t hit water if he fell out of a boat.&rdqu