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The Vault at Oracle Park will be highlighting the world series game in 1989 where a magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit the San Francisco Bay Area, killing 67 people. It was a party atmosphere as the Giants showed off their new stadium, Pac Bell Park. Barry Bonds hit the first Giants home run at the new stadium in the third inning, but the Dodgers won 6-5 with three homers from Kevin Elster.
Chili Davis drove in Jeffrey Leonard in the 12th inning to beat the Padres 4-3 before over 52,000 fans at Candlestick. The Giants celebrated Opening Day in their new home, Candlestick Park, by beating the Cardinals 3-1. Sam Jones pitched a complete game and Orlando Cepeda drove in all three runs. With Vice President Richard M. Nixon in attendance, Mayor George Christopher tossed out the first pitch.
After 107-win season, SF Giants still working…
The top free agents have all signed contracts, but there are still plenty of moves for contending teams to make. Then, they missed out on Judge, which is fine because everything we know now indicates that he always wanted to re-sign with the Yankees. Maybe he used San Francisco as leverage, but you can’t fault the club for trying to sign the best available free agent, who grew up a Giants fan. We probably will never know exactly what happened or why things turned out this way. On behalf of his client, Boras is incentivized to make it seem like there is nothing wrong with Correa.
SAN FRANCISCO–In the midst of an offseason where just about anything that could go wrong did, the Giants were pining for the day something would eventually go right. The Giants are hoping that the resurgent 2021 season on the field would be reflected in the stands, and season ticket sales have increased this offseason to around 15,000 full season tickets sold, per Daum. Then-AT&T Park was officially sold out for 530 consecutive regular-season games from the final weekend of the 2010 season to July 18, 2017. Those years encompassed the three World Series titles in 2010, 2012 and 2014 as well as a fourth trip to the playoffs in 2016. The Giants did sell out all three home games against the Dodgers in the NLDS and sold their entire allotment of standing-room-only tickets for Games 2 and 5.
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SAN FRANCISCO — None of the Tampa Bay Rays wanted to see their old pal Evan Longoria in the batter's box with the game on the line in the ninth inning and two outs. On the strength of back-to-back home runs by Yandy Díaz and Kevin Kiermaier, the Rays took a 4-0 first inning lead and never looked back. For so many in the Giants’ organization, Friday’s festivities were the perfect way to put the sad and in some ways troubling recent past behind them. The Giants paid tribute to some of their franchise pillars at Friday’s home opener. Left-hander Sean Manaea agreed to a two-year deal with San Francisco, filling a gap in the 2023 starting rotation.
Connor is a Giants fan, and, well, as you know by now, it’s been a rough week for his favorite team. The Giants backed out of their 13-year, $350 million agreement with Correa after reviewing his medical information. As Correa’s agent Scott Boras told Tom Verducci, “something in his history that for whatever reason gave them doubts” about closing their deal with the marquee shortstop. Boras then reopened free-agent negotiations and the Mets swooped in and signed Correa, who will be their starting third baseman because they already have Francisco Lindor at short.
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Prior to the 2019 season, the Dodgers swung a massive deal with the Reds, sending Matt Kemp, Yasiel Puig, Alex Wood, Kyle Farmer, and cash to Cincinnati in exchange for Homer Bailey, Josiah Gray, and Jeter Downs. While it seems unlikely that another deal of this impactful could come together, it still shows the Dodgers are quite willing to get creative in an attempt to duck under the luxury tax for a year to reset their penalties. March 21, 2019 – The Giants acquired IF/OF Connor Joe in a trade with the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for minor leaguer RHP Jordan Johnson and cash considerations.
The 2021 home opener welcomed fans back inside Oracle Park, but with a limited capacity of 7,390 fans in a socially distanced set-up. The Giants didn’t reopen the ballpark to full capacity until June 25, 2021, gradually increasing capacity as guidelines for proper distancing changed and vaccination rates increased. For Friday’s opener, the Giants are still hoping to sell all 41,300 seats, but the excitement of the new season and the beautiful weather forecasted — a high of 67 — has the Giants feeling optimistic. Shana Daum, the Giants’ senior vice president of public affairs and community relations, told the Bay Area News Group that as of 4 p.m. Wednesday, the Giants have sold over 39,000 seats for the opener already and more than 100,000 seats for the three-game series against the Marlins. In the past, fans who have had tickets to a postponed game have been allowed to use their tickets when a makeup game is played.
"We are very happy. The Giants are back. The people are back. Everyone's back to work. It's a great day." Maybe more excited than the fans, businesses up and down the Embarcadero where it looked every bit like a sunny opening day. The Mets swooped in and signed Carlos Correa after his deal with the Giants fell apart. What happened will go down as the biggest undoing of a contract agreement in baseball history. In his final year of eligibility, the all-time leader in home runs for second basemen deserves to be enshrined. As the star of free agency undergoes his physical exam in New York, his agent is confident health will not be a problem this time around.
The Giants plan to honor retiring manager Bruce Bochy and team greats who passed away during the offseason, including Willie McCovey. The Giants made clear at the beginning of the offseason that they needed to add thump to their lineup. Perhaps they weren’t “begging to give out a third of a billion dollars,” but they said they were willing to pay whatever it takes to sign at least one of the top free agents. This was the second time in two weeks that the Giants appeared to have secured a superstar free agent, only to lose him to a New York team. The first one came fourteen days earlier, when the New York Post’s Jon Heyman erroneously reported on Twitter that “Arson Judge appears headed to Giants.” The hilarious typo wasn’t the only error.
The next morning Aaron Judge agreed to re-sign with the Yankees for nine years and $360 million, the same offer the Giants reportedly had extended. One day is not enough to erase the pain of loss or the concerns the franchise must confront about its future, but the Giants took a step forward on Friday. The Giants did not rally to win against the Rays, but pregame festivities went off without a hitch and the team made the game interesting at the end. Even a roster that offered few glimpses of hope in a series loss in San Diego to open the season improved its efforts in recent days. The Giants lost their series against the Dodgers to return home at 2-5, but they were outscored just in three closely-contested games against the six-time reigning National League West champions.
The Giants paid tribute with a moment of silence to late Hall of Famer Willie McCovey, who died Oct. 31, as well as former manager Frank Robinson, managing general partner Peter Magowan and former broadcaster Hank Greenwald. Broadcaster Mike Krukow read a speech prepared by Magowan before he died in January. Tommy Pham's leadoff single in the third gave him a Rays record 40-game on-base streak over two seasons, breaking Johnny Damon's previous mark accomplished in 2011. Rays reliever Adam Kolarek hit Brandon Crawford to load the bases with none out in the eighth. Diego Castillo came in one out later and got Giants newcomer Kevin Pillar to ground into a double play. Jose Alvarado finished for his third save, getting Longoria with two runners on.
That’s because the Giants pulled back from their 13-year, $350MM agreement with Correa after flagging something in his physical with them, which is what opened the door for the Mets to swoop in in the first place. With Correa’s physical completed, the Mets are reportedly expected to take roughly hours to review the information before the deal is finalized, meaning if all goes well, Correa should be a Met before Christmas. In the meantime, share this newsletter with your friends and family, and tell them to sign up at SI.com/newsletters. A long-time face of the franchise and a savior of baseball in San Francisco, Magowan died on January 27 at the age of 76. April 5 marked the Giants’ 20th home opener at the privately-funded ballpark he helped erect along the San Francisco waterfront, and as Krukow pointed out, Friday would have been Magowan’s 77th birthday.
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