Steady veteran Kyle Gibson is vital to Cardinals turnaround. He showed why vs. Padres

SAN DIEGO — As a younger pitcher, one still looking for that steady pulse to go with steadier results, Kyle Gibson listened to a chaplain discuss how anxiety and thankfulness are conflicting emotions. It’s not reasonable, the explanation went, to be worried about what’s to come and thankful for what’s happened, just as it’s not productive to worry about what happened and also be thankful for the opportunity ahead. Gibson took that thought to heart. Then he took it to …