Padres Scene & Heard: Dodgers play hardball in negotiations for rookie’s first HR ball

Padres Scene & Heard: Dodgers play hardball in negotiations for rookie’s first HR ball

First home run ball, priceless? Nope. Not by a long shot. Eric Saldana and Alex Espinoza were sitting in Section 125 of the field level Friday night at Petco Park, just inside the right-field foul pole, when Dodgers rookie second baseman Alex Freeland stepped into a sweeper offered by Padres starting pitcher Yu Darvish. “I was on my phone,” Saldana said. “Then I looked up and I’m like, ‘Yo, the ball’s coming.’ I stuck my arm out. It bounced off …