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GIANTS WEEKLY NOTES: SEPTEMBER 7-13, 2020 24 Plaza San Francisco, CA 94107 Phone: 415-972-2000 sfgiants.com sfgigantes.com giantspressbox.com @SFGiants @SFGigantes @SFGiantsMedia

NEWS & NOTES GIANTS INTERVIEW SCHEDULE “Rally the Vote,” an 18-team, nonpartisan coalition is made up of professional sports franchises across the NBA, NFL, MLB, WNBA and NWSL focused on encouraging fans to get in the game and make their voice heard by registering Monday - September 7 to vote and participating in elections. The first-of-its-kind coalition, composed of the Chicago Bulls, Chicago White 7:35 a.m. - Sox, Nuggets, Indiana Pacers and Fever, Milwaukee joins Murph & Mac Bucks, Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx, New York Gi- Tuesday - September 8 ants, Portland Trail Blazers, Sacramento Kings, Padres, , Storm, Washington Wizards and Mystics, Washington 7:35 a.m. - Spirit and Athletes Unlimited, aims to increase the amount of new voter registrations and ensure joins Murph & Mac all of those who register to vote cast a ballot in November. rallythevote.org 4:30 p.m. - joins Tolbert, Krueger & Brooks On Wednesday, September 9 Major League and Wednesday - September 9 the Giants will proudly celebrate Day. In honor of the late Hall of Famer and humanitarian, the 7:35 a.m. - Mike Krukow recognizes the MLB player who joins Murph & Mac best represents the game of Baseball through positive 11:50 a.m. - contributions, both on and off the field.Learn more at mlb. joins Papa & Lund com/clemente21 Thursday - September 10 7:35 a.m. - joins Murph & Mac 5 p.m. - joins Tolbert, Krueger & Brooks Friday - September 11 7:35 a.m. - Mike Krukow joins Murph & Mac THIS WEEK IN GIANTS HISTORY

SEPT Bobby Thomson went 5-for-5 against SEPT The Giants defeated the Padres 1-0 SEPT Willie Mays became the fifth player in the host Braves as the Giants won 7-3. and entered into a tie for first-place in Major League history to 500 career 7 was the winner, scat- 10 the NL West. Jonathan Sánchez and 13 home runs. The “Say Hey Kid” hit a 1951 tering 10 hits over Max Surkont. Mon- 2010 five relievers combined to allow just 1965 league-leading and career-high 52 te Irvin drove in the first three runs, hitting a three hits to shut out San Diego. Box home runs en route to his second MVP season. homer estimated at 500 feet. He then had 101 earned his 22nd win, a 5-1 deci- RBI. Box SEPT Giants’ 2008 first round draft pick sion over to extend the Giants’ winning made his Major League streak to 11 games. Box SEPT worked a scoreless 9th in- 11 debut, catching 2.0 innings and going 8 ning to record his 199th rescue as Gi- 2009 hitless in one at-bat. The Giants fell to ant, tying for most saves in the Dodgers 10-3. Box 2002 franchise history. Box The Giants swept the Phillies 5-2 and SEPT The Giants squeaked by the Rockies SEPT 9-4 in 11 innings. hit 19-2 as Willie Mays had six hits to 9 three home runs in a game for the 12 raise his average to .333. Jim Daven- 1958 2001 second time that season, giving him port topped him with seven hits, in- 63 for the year, besting Roger Maris’ mark of 61 cluding a three- inside-the-park in for lefthanded hitters. Box the 1st inning of Game 2, and scoring seven runs. Box 1 | Box 2

THIS WEEK'S GIANTS PODCASTS (PRES. BY T-MOBILE)

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Russ Ortiz Episodes 1-8 Years with SF: 1998-2002, 2007 Now Streaming Debuts Thurs., Sept. 10 Episode 1 - This righty was the winning pitch- Episode 2 - Nick Ortiz Inside Giant Moments takes you er that finally put the Giants into Gigantes Podcast, hosted by Episode 3 - Carlos Orellana behind the scenes of the most the NLCS in 2002 for the first time Spanish-language broadcaster Episode 4 - Ciro Villalobos iconic moments in Giants history since 1989. He reflects on his Erwin Higueros, is a weekly pod- Episode 5 - Pablo Peguero with the players who made these memorable Game 6 cast that will have interviews from Episode 6 - Jose Alguacil moments, memories. Host Mark performance--and his even more former Giants players, coaches Episode 7 - Saul Martinez Willard of KNBR dives in each week memorable souvenir. and staff members focusing on Episode 8 - Luis Landero with exclusive interviews on the of- their culture. Higueros discuss- ficial San Francisco Giants podcast. es the difficulties and sacrifices Subscribe Here each of them have faced through- out their professional journeys. Subscribe Here GIANT BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK

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COMMUNITY CORNER Buster & Kristen Posey and Brandon & Jalynne Crawford continue to support kids and their Minute to Win It families who are battling childhood cancer. The Poseys surprised kids from UCSF Benioff Chil- Watch Beginning Wednesday, September 9 dren’s Hospitals and Family House during a zoom call for our fan cam. The kids had some fun questions for Buster and got to meet his kids on video! The Crawfords have teamed up with other Prior to the season, some of the Giants took some players in MLB, including former Giant Andrew McCutchen, to help raise awareness and funds time to try their hand at some fun Minute To Win It with their “Catch a Cure” clothing line. style games. Check it out here starting Wednes- As continues to fight numerous wildfires, the Giants are partnering with the American day! Red Cross to raise funds to help people affected by these wildfires.Donations can be made by visiting redcross.org/giants

BEYOND THE GIANTS VAULT  Housed in a 5,000 square foot building, the event, and for most teams the Giants Archives consists of memorabilia and year was part of the design. artifacts from our team’s 138-year history. As The practice created a “Phan- part of the Giants Fan Page, fans can now, for tom Pin” if the team fell short the first time, learn about and view memora- of their goal. Eventually teams bilia from our collection. decided to design pins without This week, the Vault is taking a look at some the year so they could be used of the press pins from the 2002, 2010, 2012 the next time the team made it and runs. The pins are typ- to the Fall Classic – this is why ically handed out to media for home games the 2002 Giants World Series when your club makes the World Series. press pin (pictured here) has Baseball teams had a problem. If there was a chance a team could the Giants 1993 logo on it. make it to the World Series they were required to make a press pin for the The full look at recent World Series pins is online starting Thursday

GIANTS PLAYER SPOTLIGHT | ALEX DICKERSON

Raised in Poway, CA near San Di- Tom Brunansky and . FAMIILY INFORMATION ego. Brunansky introduced Bochy to Alex’s Father, Ross, flew F-14 Tomcats dad, Ross, and told Bochy about Dick- - Father, Ross, was a career Naval from aircraft carriers all over the erson’s back issue. Bochy connected Flight Officer who retired in 2002 world and was a graduate of TOP- him to the Padres’ doctor, who also said when Alex was 12. GUN, the Naval Weapons Fighter he didn’t think Dickerson could play but School. He made seven deployments referred him to a doctor specialized in - Mother, Carol, is a registered dieti- generally lasting eight months at a microsurgery. The surgery worked and cian and worked at several hospitals time and returned to the States Dickerson went back to playing base- before giving up that career to raise permanently in 1999, when Alex ball for his junior and senior years. her children was nine. He retired in 2002 Attended Poway High School in the - Has one sister, Kelsie, who gradu- at the rank of Commander. In San Diego area and was two years be- ated from UC Berkeley. She walked 1993 he had the experience hind Bochy’s son, Brett (who appeared of ejecting from one of the in seven games with the Giants from on to the Cal soccer team and played fighter jets when an engine 2014-2015). for three years. She was the Defen- caught fire over the Miramar In 37 games as a senior, he hit .455 sive Player of the Year as a senior. Naval base in San Diego. His with 44 RBI. Nearly half his 55 hits went - Kelsie is now an assistant scientist final operational deployment was as for extra bases, including eight home for a pharmaceutical company in an air operations officer on the USS runs. Southern California. Kitty Hawk in Yokosuka, Japan. Deron Johnson, his high school hit- Also a Navy man, Alex’s grandfa- ting , tells about Dickerson get- phones, too, to avoid texts. When the ther, Howard Dickerson, was a re- ting spiked in the arm playing first base game’s over, they look at the , connaissance pilot in the Battle of in the first game of a big doubleheader see how he did then they can watch the Midway and in the Solomon Islands against the crosstown rivals. It was an game with no anxiety. campaign in World War II. ugly, bleeding gash, and three coach- They attended every game during Dickerson started limping one es and the trainer were ready to take high school and are good to watch his day while playing football as a him to the ER. His military dad takes a games from the ballpark itself. sophomore at Poway High School. look and says, “He’ll be fine. Tape him For six months it was diagnosed as up. We’ll take him after.’’ Dickerson got a knee injury, but a physical thera- three hits and played both ends of the pist later discovered that it was ac- doubleheader. “He always gave you ev- tually his back that caused the knee erything he had,’’ Johnson says. pain. Doctors said he couldn’t play Ross and Alex’s mother, Carol, sports, the risk was too great in couldn’t watch or listen to any of his col- someone so young. lege and professional games until they Dickerson was at a baseball ban- were over. “I’ve had enough stress in my quet with former Major Leaguer life,’’ Ross says. They turn off their cell

Weekly Notes September 7-13, 2020