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NEWS & NOTES GIANTS INTERVIEW SCHEDULE The and have agreed to play two exhibition games on July 20-21 ahead of . The Giants will play at on Monday, July 20, with first pitch slated for 6:40 p.m. and then will host the A’s on Tuesday, July 21 at with first pitch scheduled for 6:45 p.m. Monday - July 13 The seats at Oracle Park will not be empty when the 2020 Giants team begins the 60- 7:35 a.m. - game regular season at home on July 28 joins Murph & Mac against the Padres at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday - July 14 Although fans will not be permitted at Giants games this year because of the COVID-19 pan- 7:35 a.m. - demic, they will have the opportunity to have joins Murph & Mac a cutout image of themselves placed in a seat 4:30 p.m. - instead. The Giants Fan Cutout Program will joins Tolbert, Krueger & Brooks be made available to season ticket members at Wednesday - July 15 no cost as one benefit for selecting to roll over their account credit to the 2021 season. The goal is to place their cutout in or as close to their 7:35 a.m. - Mike Krukow actual season seat as possible. The program is open to all Giants fans at a cost of $99. For more joins Murph & Mac information, visit www.sfgiants.com/FanCutouts 11:50 a.m. - In addition to releasing the 2020 schedule last week, the Giants and Major League an- joins Papa & Lund nounced the 2021 Giants schedule. San Francisco opens the 2021 season in on April 1. Thursday - July 16 You can take a look at the full 2021 schedule here 7:35 a.m. - Duane Kuiper joins Murph & Mac 5 p.m. - joins Tolbert, Krueger & Brooks Friday - July 17 7:35 a.m. - Mike Krukow joins Murph & Mac

Monday - July 13 6 p.m. - May 23, 2016 vs. San Diego Tuesday - July 14 6 p.m. - October 7, 2010 vs. Wednesday - July 15 5 p.m. - October 10, 2010 at Atlanta Thursday - July 16 THIS WEEK'S INSIDE GIANT MOMENTS PODCAST EPISODE (PRES. BY T-MOBILE) 5 p.m. - October 11, 2010 at Atlanta EPISODE 18 8 p.m. - October 11, 2012 at Cincinnati Friday - July 17 Dave Flemming Years with SF: 2003-present 5 p.m. - October 22, 2012 vs. St. Louis Debuts Thurs., July 16 9 p.m. - October 16, 2014 vs. St. Louis Saturday - July 18 As one of the beloved voices 11 a.m. - 11 p.m. - 2012 Inside Giant Moments takes of the Giants, Flemming has you behind the scenes of the called countless iconic mo- Saturday - July 19 ments over the past 17 years. most iconic moments in Gi- 10:30 a.m. - 11 p.m. - ants history with the players From the 2010 Edgar Rent- who made these moments, eria home to the final memories. Host Mark Wil- of the , his lard of KNBR dives in each words are intertwined with week with exclusive inter- the memories. Hosted by the broadcast team every views on the official San Wednesday at 6 p.m. on YouTube at Francisco Giants podcast. Subscribe Here .com/giants Wednesday - July 15 6 p.m. - , OF & POST PANDEMIC PLANNING - ADAPTING TO THE NEXT NORMAL Umpire Eddie Montague Konica Minolta has evolved their existing virtual events series, “We’ve Got You All Covered," which was devel- oped primarily as a pandemic response and remote work enablement series, into a new program for busi- ness planning and returning to work in a post COV- CLICK TO DOWNLOAD ID-19 world. The new series, “Post Pandemic Planning - Adapting to the Next Normal,” helps businesses plan for reopening and offers solutions for what the “next normal” looks like for businesses moving into the fu- ture. Click here for the series schedule COMMUNITY CORRIDOR CLICK FOR THE GIANTS COVID-19 COMMUNITY RESPONSE BLOG GIANT BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK This summer, Levi’s® and the Giants are teaming up to high- light and honor six nonprofits in our community who are tak- ing action and making a difference for those most in need during the COVID-19 pandemic. The six organizations we will recognize are supporting and being a resource for veterans, homeless, victims of domestic violence and those who need Kai Correa Rob Brantly Mauricio Dubón an extra hand during these unprecedented times. Each or- (32) (31) (26) ganization will be receiving a grant from Levi’s® as well as Levi’s® reusable masks for their hard-working staff, volun- July 14 July 14 July 19 teers and clients. To learn more about the Levi’s® Community Advocate program, please visit GIGANTES PODCAST (PRES. BY T-MOBILE) sfgiants.com/leviscommunityadvocate SEASON TICKET MEMBER HEROES OF THE WEEK Each week we'll highlight a Giants season ticket member or members who are stepping up dur- ing this tremendous time of need. This week we salute the work of Kevin Hume When Mayor London Breed declared the CO- VID-19 shelter-in-place order, she deemed jour- nalists to be essential workers, and while many reporters are able to do a significant amount of their work remotely during the pandemic, photo Erwin Higueros interviews current players, former journalists do not have that luxury. Every work Giants players, as well as several Giants staff mem- day (and sometimes on weekends too), San bers, focusing on their culture on the new Gigantes Francisco Examiner Photo Editor Kevin Hume Podcast, launching this week. Listen here has left the safety of his home to capture images of the city of San Francisco during the crisis. Pablo Peguero, director of operations in the Domin- These include those of boarded up businesses, deserted streets, and Treasure Island resident ican Republic, talks about his beginnings in baseball feeling abandoned during these times. His work includes photographs of the tent cities that and his responsibility with the young players who have been set up in the Tenderloin for unhoused people, and of the homeless shelter where dream of one day playing in the big leagues and play 70 residents tested positive for the Coronavirus. With public transit more limited during the for the Giants. pandemic, on most days, he uses a friend's borrowed car for shelter as he edits and sends in his photographs to The Examiner, and calls in for daily video meetings. He wears a mask, of 2020 GIANTS DRAFT PICKS SIGNED course, and it is similar to the one he wore while covering the Paradise fire. When he finally arrives home at the end of the day, he sanitizes his camera equipment one more time before doing the final photo edits of the evening. And, if this work was not enough, the protests be- gan, and he set out again, shooting video and photographs of city residents marching for racial justice. He's taken photos of San Francisco police officers taking a knee, of protesters trying to stop vandals from ruining peaceful demonstrations, and of youth leading a crowd of 10,000 through the Mission. It is risky, exhausting and important work keeping readers informed of what is happening in their community, and Kevin's compelling photography does that elo- quently. The San Francisco Media Co. is a proud season ticket holder, and we are proud of our front-line hero: Kevin Hume. Thank you. ORACLE PARK SAFETY PROTOCOLS The Giants have officially announced the signings The Giants Maintenance Team is implementing the most stringent protocols for cleaning, disinfec- of six of their seven draft picks from the 2020 First- tion and infectious disease prevention at Oracle Park to protect the health and safety of all those Year Player Draft. Thus far, the Giants have signed working at the park during and the 2020 regular season. They have created robust first-round pickC Patrick Bailey, second-round Sanitation Operation Procedures and are working closely with the Global Biorisk Advisory Council pick 3B Casey Schmitt, compensation pick LHP Nick (GBAC), a division of ISSA, the world’s leading trade association for the cleaning industry. Swiney, compensation pick SS Jimmy Glowenke, Below are some of the following procedures and protocols being taken to maintain a clean and fourth-round pick R.J. Dabovich and fifth-round healthy environment at Oracle Park: pick RHP Ryan Murphy. Maintenance has established sanitation checkpoints throughout the park and is tracking each A full listing of Giants draft picks from this season check via 24/7 software, which allows for a time stamp of when the area is disinfected. is below. Electrostatic sprayers, which disinfect up to 54,000 square feet per hour, are being used throughout the park to disinfect multiple areas including park entrances and lobbies, stair- Round Name Position wells, restrooms, elevators, clubhouses, weight and training facilities, dining areas, press box, 1 Patrick Bailey C conference rooms, lockers, break rooms and offices. 2 Casey Schmitt 3B Many of the items being disinfected and sanitized include: table tops; scanners; laptops; key- Comp Nick Swiney LHP boards; mouse and mouse pads; printers; door handles and frames; magnetometers; gate and Comp Jimmy Glowenke SS door keypads; chairs; counters; microwaves; refrigerators; water units; locker doors; bench- 3 Kyle Harrison LHP es; light switches; telephones; walkie talkies; toilet seats; toilet stall handles; sinks; paper, 4 R.J. Dabovich RHP soap and seat cover dispensers; elevator buttons; and other touch points. 5 Ryan Murphy RHP There are 42 hand sanitizing stations located throughout the park. Members of Oracle Park’s Maintenance Team have also received specialized COVID-19 train- ing and accreditation on cleaning and disinfecting workspace areas and areas with large gath- erings of people.

GIANTS YOUTUBE CONTENT Conversación Gigante: Mauricio Dubón Watch starting Wednesday, July 15

Broadcaster Erwin Higueros chats with IF Mau- ricio Dubón about the pride he feels being the first born and raised Honduran to play in the WEDNESDAYS @ 6 P.M. | YOUTUBE.COM/GIANTS Major Leagues. Dubón also talks about how difficult it was to leave his family at age 15 to SCHEDULED GUESTS chase his dream and what it means to play for THIS WEEK his favorite team. GABE KAPLER, AUSTIN SLATER & EDDIE MONTAGUE

We've Got You All Covered July 13-19, 2020 THIS WEEK IN GIANTS HISTORY

JULY and Buster JULY The Giants and Braves scored only Posey both grand slams, account- one run each in the first nine innings 13 ing for all their team’s runs, as the Gi- 18 of their game, but exploded in extra 2014 ants defeat the Diamondbacks 8-4. It 2012 innings. The Giants scored twice in marked the first time that both members of a the top of the 10th, but Santiago Casilla allowed battery hit slams in the same game. It was a two-out, two-run homer to Brian McCann to Bumgarner’s second slam of the year, making keep the game going. Undaunted, San Francisco him only the second in history to do so. put six more runs on the scoreboard in the 11th, Tony Cloninger had hit two in the same game in thanks to three-run homers by Brandon Craw- 1966. Box ford and . Box

JULY Defeating their historical arch rivals, JULY In his Major League debut, Giants the Giants became the first team to rookie righty one-hit 14 win 10,000 games as a franchise by 19 the Phillies at in the 2005 edging the Dodgers in 1960 2-0 victory. Philadelphia’s lone hit with a 4-3 win. The Giants, who started as the was a two-out, 8th-inning by JULY Giants outfielderDarren Lewis New York Gothams in 1883, had posted a 10,000- (above) set a Major League record by Clay Dalrymple. Marichal wound up with 12 8,511 record during the club’s 123 seasons in the 16 playing his 267th consecutive game and was the first National League. Box 1993 without an . He snapped Don hurler since 1900 to debut with a one-hitter. Demeter’s record as the Giants defeated the Box JULY hit two home runs and drove in eight batters at Colorado. Mets 4-2. Box 15 His eight RBI matched Orlando started his 24-game 2019 Cepeda and Willie Mays for the most JULY winning streak, beating Pittsburgh in a game in SF-era history (since 1958). Craw- 17 6-0. The Giants hit a National League ford became the first Giants player since Mays in 1936 record-tying four triples in the 1st in- 1961 to have at least two home runs and eight ning: Jo-Jo Moore, and Hank Leiber hit RBI in a game, and the first MLB shortstop to them in succession, and Eddie Mayo added one have at least five hits and eight RBI in a game later in the inning to equal the Major League re- since RBI became official in 1920.Box cord. Box GIANTS PLAYER SPOTLIGHT | Conner was born in the tiny town cluding baseball). FAMILY INFORMATION of Lakeview, Oregon, the location At Master’s, he hit the weight of the nearest hospital. room and built up strength. He - His father, Scott, ran a cattle ranch Scott Menez, Conner’s dad, now stands 6’3” and weighs 205 in Fort Bidwell (population 174) in played baseball at Master’s Uni- pounds. By his sophomore year, rural Modoc County, CA,. versity, a small private Christian he threw faster than 90 mph and college in Santa Clarita, Calif., attracted attention from scouts. - Conner and his three brothers were where Conner and his brother Ca- In his junior year in 2016, he home-schooled for much of their leb also played. Scott was a catch- posted a 2.47 ERA and pitched childhoods. er, as was Caleb. in the NAIA World Series. He - Mother, Gina, was a teacher. The Menez family moved finished college 20-5 with a 2.26 to Redding, in Califor- ERA, the lowest in program his- - Conner is the second-born son. nia’s Sacramento Val- tory. Colton is two years older, Caleb two ley, when Scott took a The Giants, his childhood years younger, and Canon seven job as a pastor there. team, drafted him in the 14th years younger. The boys not only Conner was about round (425th overall) of the share the same first initial, but all six years old. When 2016 draft. have the same middle name, Scott, Conner finished He started 2019 in AA, making after their father. eighth grade, Scott 11 starts before his promotion to moved to another - As of 2020, Scott and Gina Menez church in Hollis- Sacramento, where he posted a live Ormond Beach, Florida, where ter, a small city in 3.82 ERA and 52 strikeouts in 35 Colton, 27, is married and works for a rural central Cali- innings in his first seven starts water company. Caleb, 23, is with the fornia, and Con- before earning a call-up to the U.S. Army, stationed in Tacoma, and ner enrolled at Giants. Caleb, 18, a recent high school grad- San Benito High He made his debut along with uate, is in the Army in North Carolina. School. AAA teammate Zach Green on He was a big Gi- July 21, 2019, taking Derek Hol- - Conner’s maternal grandfather, Bill ants’ fan. He’d go land’s roster spot. He pitched Plummer, played 10 years in Majors, to games when well, throwing 5.0 innings and mostly as ’s backup his grandfather, allowing only 2 runs while strik- on the legendary Cincinnati who by then was ing out 6 in an extra-inning win Reds’ teams in the 1970s. He went a with the over the Mets. One of those on to manage the Diamondbacks, whiffs: Rookie of the Year Pete and coach with many other teams in a Alonso, who snapped his bat would be in SF 53-year professional career. He won and get the family over his knee after a swing-and- two World Series rings with the Reds, tickets. (He once owned a-miss. “That was a fun strike- a jersey.) out,” Conner says, laughing. played with Ken Griffey and managed Even though he played “All my friends and family Ken Griffey Jr. years. for the Haybalers, Con- were there, who supported me - Bill Plummer was “a big influence in ner wasn’t a top pros- through my whole career,” he my life,” Conner says. “He was defi- pect. “I was a super late says, except for his two brothers nitely a good role model for me.” He in the military. “Adrenaline was bloomer,” he says. When taught Conner pitching mechanics, he graduated, he only going through my whole body and in particular, a changeup. With weighed 160 pounds the whole entire day. And I got and his fastball topped to pitch in the park that I grew up Plummer’s influence, Caleb became out at 80 mph. “I did not going to ballgames in.” a catcher in high school and college; get a lot of looks,” he He was optioned immediately when they were teammates, Caleb says. after his debut, but was called was Conner’s personal catcher. With only one Divi- up two more times that season. - In 2019, he met his fiancé, Brianne sion II offer, he opted to In total, he made 3 starts for the Juszczyk (pronounced Bree-anna go to Master’s, an NAIA Giants, 5 relief appearances, Yooz-check). Although her first school. His dad played and pinch-ran once for Madison cousin is running baseball at Master’s, his Bumgarner, who had drawn a back Kyle Juszczyk, Brianne says she aunt played basketball, pinch-hit walk and advanced to knew nothing of sports. Last Christ- and his uncle played second. mas Eve, Conner proposed, and a three sports there (in- wedding is set for November 2020.

We've Got You All Covered July 13-19, 2020