Sep 13, 2022
Bear with us a moment. We're
gonna go stats nerd on you.
As of the publication of this episode, the San
Francisco Giants have played a total of 1,892 games
at the stadium known these days as Oracle Park. Each of those games
sees a minimum of 27 at-bats for Giants players. That leaves us
with at least 51,057 chances for a hitter to send a home run ball
into the waters of McCovey Cove. And it's
happened a mere 97 times. That's something like a 0.19 percent
chance that any batter will accomplish the feat.
And on the very day this July when we boarded
the Canoecycle, lo and behold, we got a splash
hit.
Hear all about it from the human in a kayak who got that Lamont
Wade, Jr.'s, home run ball and more, as we present the second part
of our podcast on McCovey Cove.
Photography by Michelle Kilfeather