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NEWS & NOTES GIANTS INTERVIEW SCHEDULE Giants partner Alaska Airlines has launched an online contest to celebrate the return of . New or existing mileage plan members can register at AlaskaAir.com/SFGiants for the Alaska Airlines Million-Mile Home Sweepstakes. One winner will Monday - August 3 be chosen at random at the end of the season to win the Million Miles, redeemable to travel with Alaska and its Global Partners 7:35 a.m. - to more than 800 destinations worldwide. To sweeten the deal, joins Murph & Mac every time a Giants player hits a , 1,000 miles is added to Tuesday - August 4 the jackpot. Each week during the 60-game 2020 season, Alaska Airlines will select one winner to receive roundtrip air travel and 7:35 a.m. - tickets to Giants 2021 in Scottsdale, Arizona. joins Murph & Mac Register today 4:30 p.m. - joins Tolbert, Krueger & Brooks Wednesday - August 5 7:35 a.m. - Mike Krukow The second issue of The Gamer, the Giants newest publication, THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE features on the cover and is available for joins Murph & Mac free to read online. In this issue, fans can read up more on the 11:50 a.m. - GamerISSUE 2 newest Giants skipper, take a look at who made the club's 60-man joins Papa & Lund player pool for this shortened season and learn more about ver- Thursday - August 6 satile Giants infielderWilmer Flores. Fans can also take a peek at the new rules for the 2020 campaign and preview the Giants op- 7:35 a.m. - ponents for this season after they were adjusted to accommodate joins Murph & Mac the shorter 60-game campaign. Click here to read today 5 p.m. - Farhan Zaidi CALLING joins Tolbert, Krueger & Brooks THE SHOTS Friday - Manager Gabe Kapler talks about his new role +SERIES PREVIEWS leading the Giants 7:35 a.m. - Mike Krukow NEW RULES FOR 2020 MEET joins Murph & Mac THIS WEEK IN GIANTS HISTORY

All trademarks and earned his first Major his 756th copyrightshome are used with permission run, of Barry Bonds joined , Willie AUG AUG MLB Advanced Media, L.P. All rights reserved. AUG League victory, throwing a three-hit- breaking ’s record and Mays and Hank Aaron as the only 3 ter shutout in the 11-0 thumping of 7 taking sole possession of the first 9 players ever to hit 600 home runs in 2004 the Reds. The southpaw became the 2007 place on the all-time list. The decisive 2002 the Majors. The 38-year-old-hit the first Giants hurler to post a shutout for his first blow came off Washington’s Mike Bacsik Jr. milestone homer in the 6th inning by lining a 2-1 career win since did so on June Bonds finished the day going 3-for-3 with three pitch thrown by Pirates starter over the 15, 1991 at . Box runs scored, but the Giants lost 8-6. Box center field wall at Park. Box

AUG pitched a two-hitter to edge AUG of the Giants be- Dodgers 2-1 before 49,317. Bill Mad- came the first player in 41 years to 4 lock broke the 1-1 tie with a home 8 1978 collect seven hits in a game, as he hit a run, helping Blue to his 10th straight 2016 , a and five singles in a victory. Box 14-inning, 8-7 win over the Marlins. His final hit, a single off Andrew Cashner in the 14th, drove AUG At Candlestick Park, Reds became the 4000th home the winning run. The last player with sev- 5 victim of Giants southpaw en hits in a game, , had accom- 1986 . Box plished the feat in just 9 innings on September 16, 1975. Box AUG Protecting the Giants’ 11-10 lead over the Cubs, 32-year-old reliever Robb 6 Nen became the 16th and youngest 2002 closer to record the 300th of his career. Box

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Hunter Pence Luis Landero Watch Here Debuts Tues., Aug. 4 Watch Here Luis Landero, engineer and pro- ducer in Giants Spanish radio. He Inside Giant Moments takes you Last week we went Inside THIS Gigantes Podcast, hosted by tells us the reasons why he emi- behind the scenes of the most Giant Moment with two episodes Spanish-language broadcaster grated to the and iconic moments in Giants history with current Giants OF Hunter Erwin Higueros, is a weekly pod- how he was presented with the with the players who made these Pence and Assistant Alyssa cast that will have interviews from opportunity to work in the Giants moments, memories. Host Mark Nakken. Pence discussed the his- former Giants players, coaches Spanish radio booth and his mem- Willard of KNBR dives in each week toric 2020 season, the surreal mo- and staff members focusing on ories of the 2012 . with exclusive interviews on the of- ment when he returned to Oracle their culture. Higueros discuss- ficial San Francisco Giants podcast. Park as a Giant, his thoughts on es the difficulties and sacrifices Subscribe Here the young prospects, and what his each of them have faced through- role and priorities are this season. out their professional journeys. Nakken shared her inspiring story Subscribe Here of becoming MLB's first female coach, how her life has changed since joining the staff, and her ad- vice to other females in sports. GIANT BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK

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COMMUNITY CORNER Conversación Gignate: Wilmer Flores Buster Posey has won this year’s Lou Gehrig Memorial Award, sponsored by the Phi Delta The- Watch Beginning Wednesday, August 5 ta International Fraternity, headquartered in Oxford, OH. Phi Delta Theta presents the award annually to a Major League Baseball player who best exemplifies the giving character of Hall of This week in Conversación Gigante we will have Famer Lou Gehrig, a member of the Fraternity’s Columbia University chapter. The award was the opportunity to talk and get to know the new- first presented in 1955 and is permanently maintained at the National Baseball Hall of Fame est member of your Giants, Wilmer Flores. Flores and Museum in Cooperstown. Posey is the second member of the Giants to win the Lou Gehrig signed his first professional contract on his 16th Memorial Award: (2012).Phi Delta Theta plans to present the award to Posey during birthday, August 6, 2007, and then made his Major the early months of the 2021 Major League Baseball season. League debut six years later on his birthday, Au- gust 6, 2013! Don’t miss this episode.

BEYOND THE GIANTS VAULT  Housed in a 5,000 square foot building, the series in 1905, but the As tak- Giants Archives consists of memorabilia and ing the final two in 1911 and artifacts from our team’s 138-year history. As 1913. It was the fourth time part of the Giants Page, fans can now, for two teams from the same area the first time, learn about and view memora- (not in New York) played each bilia from our collection. other and unfortunately for After winning their first San Francisco, it is also one pennant in 27 years, the 1989 Giants ignited of only four series since 1903 the championship flame in San Francisco that where the winning team never glows to this day. trailed in a game. Giants fans remember the 1989 World Se- ries as the “Earthquake Series”, but it was historic for other reasons as The full look at the 1989 well. 1989 was the first time the San Francisco Giants played the Oakland World Series will be online Athletics for the crown, but the franchises did meet three other times when starting Thursday they were in New York and Philadelphia, with the Giants winning the first GIANTS COACH SPOTLIGHT | KAI CORREA Kai was a serious student, but his on the side. While practicality is help- Correa says both his grandfather’s homework arrived on the teacher’s ful when planning a career, it’s useless gave him everything he needs for the desk smudged with dirt from the dug- when answering a calling. A calling, job he has now. His grandfather on out. He loved baseball. When he had like Correa’s for coaching, will find its his mother’s side, the son of Japanese to write an essay about what he want- way. immigrants, fought in World War II, ed to be when he grew up, the answer After graduation, Correa wasn’t earned an MBA from New York Uni- was obvious: baseball coach. ready to dive into graduate school so versity and spent his career running He became an all-conference in- he signed on as an assistant coach at the largest accounting firm in Hawaii. fielder in high school then played Puget Sound. He stayed four years, “It’s personnel management, it’s ball and studied history at the falling deeper in every day not teaching in the classroom and on the University of Puget Sound, only with teaching skills but with men- field, it’s demonstrating skills, it’s a Division III school not toring, motivating, explaining, orga- mentoring, it’s pubic speaking, it’s known for churning out nizing. He left in 2015 for Division I marketing, it’s organizational skills, picks (just eight in University of Northern Colorado, rising it’s graphic design in creating visual the last 42 years). An un- from a volunteer assistant to head as- usually practical young sistant in less than three years. Along displays to make advanced statis- man, Correa came to the way he worked for USA Baseball as tics easy to understand,’’ he says, “So understand that a guy an infield instructor. many layers to unpack.’’ who was never going Soon, he was conducting clinics and Despite his near-impossible rise to to play an inning of pro giving talks around the country about the Major Leagues, he is as hyper- ball, much less Major his coaching techniques and philoso- practical as ever. When he slips be- League ball, had no phy. A few Major League teams began hind the wheel of his Toyota Tundra, chance to be a full- to take notice. The he never turns on music. He listens time college or pro hired him away from Northern Colo- to something useful, like a lecture on coach. He had cal- rado in 2017 to work with their mi- motor skills, or an audio version of the culated there were nor league infielders, which quickly 2020 MLB rules changes (he uses an turned into a job as minor league de- approximately app to translate printed documents to 2,500 of such fensive coordinator. audio). Or he’ll knock out the phone jobs in the coun- Gabe Kapler, then the Dodgers’ calls he needs to return. “I just try to try and declared player development director, be- max out my time,’’ he says. He won’t go the odds impos- gan following Correa’s career. When into gas stations or grocery stores on sible. Kapler took over as Giants Manager in the left side of the road because the The practical November 2019, the 31-year-old Cor- ones on the right side are quicker. move, he decided, rea became his first hire after veteran was to be a history profes- Giants coach . sor who coached baseball

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