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SF Giants Press Clips Friday, May 25, 2018 SF Giants Press Clips Friday, May 25, 2018 San Francisco Chronicle Pablo Sandoval: Giants’ man of many roles John Shea CHICAGO - Pablo Sandoval was stoked. Not only was he going onto the field to take grounders at second base, but he was going to use one of shortstop Brandon Crawford’s gloves. “I’ve got a Gold Glove right here,” Sandoval said aloud for anyone nearby to hear, including Crawford. “Oh, baby.” • Coming off two losses in Houston, the Giants will begin a three-game series against the Cubs at Wrigley Field on Friday, their latest step in a trying season that has been detoured by key injuries and rotation woes. An overlooked factor has been the presence of Sandoval, who has resurrected his career and reinvented his place in the game as a utility man, a valuable resource for manager Bruce Bochy, whose use of the 31-year-old has been innovative. Released by the Red Sox last July after a miserable 2 ½ seasons in Boston, Sandoval rejoined the Giants in August and won a tryout in 2018 even though third baseman Evan Longoria was 1 acquired to play Sandoval’s position. This year, Sandoval has gotten starts at third, first and designated hitter, caught pregame bullpen sessions as the emergency catcher and - lest we forget -- pitched a perfect inning in an unforgettable April 28 appearance against the Dodgers. Sandoval’s a batting coach, too, apparently. In late April, he and Gregor Blanco noticed a difference in Crawford’s swing - the struggling shortstop was holding his hands lower than in the past - and Crawford made the adjustment and has been the majors’ hottest hitter in May. Sandoval’s latest assignment, which can only expand his versatility, is working out at second base as an insurance policy with the Giants down two men at the position, Joe Panik and Alen Hanson. “You have to do what you have to do in a game to help your team,” Sandoval said. “I’m taking groundballs at second base. We’ve got a couple of guys out. In different situations in the game, you use your bench guys, and I’m flexible to do different things.” Sandoval actually played one big-league game at second, replacing injured Red Sox infielder Dustin Pedroia in the eighth inning on April 21, 2017. He’s no Panik, of course, and not all the club’s decision-makers are on board with Sandoval playing second, but Bochy’s not ruling it out, especially in a late-game double switch. “He’s working hard to make himself available to play anywhere, making himself more versatile, willing to do some catching and taking groundballs at second,” Bochy said. “Pablo loves to play, and that shows.” That’s a key point. In the wake of the dismal Boston experience, Sandoval is his old happy-go- lucky self who’s singing and dancing in the clubhouse and bringing a positive vibe onto the field. “I’m enjoying it, having fun,” he said. “When you have fun, you can do a lot of things on the field. At end of the day, you have to take the job seriously. Have fun, but take the job seriously.” 2 Another key point is the Sandoval-Bochy relationship. Remember, after Sandoval joined Boston, he had good words for only two Giants, Bochy and Hunter Pence, and still looks to Bochy as a father figure. “It’s true,” Sandoval said. “When you’ve got a good relationship with a manager, it’s special.” Said Bochy: “I had him when he was young. He’s somebody that I’ve always admired with the passion he has for the game.” This never was imaginable when the Giants and Sandoval severed ties after the 2014 World Series, Sandoval voicing his displeasure with how negotiations went and making pointed comments about the organization that left many in the organization thinking “good riddance.” When Sandoval struggled in Boston with his game and conditioning after signing a five-year, $95 million deal, it reassured the Giants they did the right thing by moving on. But when he became available last summer, the Giants jumped at the opportunity to bring him back. On the road to a 98-loss season, they saw him as an inexpensive (the Giants pay the league minimum while the Red Sox pay the rest of the contract) reclamation project, and Sandoval returned with a new attitude and willingness to do whatever Bochy and the Giants ask. Sandoval’s not the hitter he was in his first go-round, though he was in the .270s late in the last homestand before struggling in Houston, along with many Giants, and is down to .236. Still, Bochy likes to use him to pinch hit late in games or fill lineup spots when Buster Posey or Longoria sit out or, in a rare moment, take the mound, which happened when the Giants were getting blown out in a double-header opener and needed to save the bullpen for the nightcap. “I didn’t even think I could be that good at that moment, throwing strikes, painting pitches, throwing a breaking ball,” Sandoval said. “Was it funny? Yes. I wish I could do it again, but we’ve got a great bullpen, great guys out there who can do the job.” Still, Sandoval is on call just in case. That’s his role. 3 San Jose Mercury News How Alonzo Powell became a gatekeeper of San Francisco’s best baseball stories Kerry Crowley HOUSTON–Thirty five years after Alonzo Powell signed his first contract with the San Francisco Giants, the franchise courted him again. The reputation Powell developed as a Houston Astros assistant last season bumped him to the top of the Giants’ list in their search for a hitting coach last October, but Powell was not a traditional candidate. Most coaches are transplants, hardened by years on the road bouncing around small-town America where they pay their dues on coach buses. Powell earned his stripes just as others who preceded him did, but he can recall a time when he paid more than just his dues. ADVERTISING It didn’t quite cost $2.75 for a MUNI fare back when Powell took the 28-line up 19th Avenue to San Francisco’s Lincoln High School, but he shelled out for regular rides. “It ran right down my street so I didn’t have an excuse to be late for school,” Powell said. Get San Francisco Giants news in your inbox. Sign up now for the free Giants HQ newsletter. Before the AT&T Park batting cages became Powell’s home away from home, that designation belonged to Aptos Playground off of Ocean Avenue. Powell said he started playing baseball when he was eight or nine years old, joining the team at St. Emydius over in the city’s Ingleside District. Powell’s coach piled the team into the back of a Toyota flatbed truck and shuttled them through various neighborhoods for weekly games. That routine sufficed until Powell’s eighth grade year, when he was faced with a tough decision. “I went to Aptos (middle school) and I had to make a choice,” Powell said. “If you played for Aptos you couldn’t play for St. Emydius and in baseball, we had a really good baseball team at Aptos so I wanted to play at Aptos.” Powell continued his baseball career at Lincoln, which matched up with Serra High School in the early 80s. Though the Giants’ first-year hitting coach eventually played professionally, Powell knew that when Serra traveled up to West Sunset Playground, he would not be the best player on the field. “My friends now joke that we were 25 years ahead of the game,” Powell said. “We would walk Barry Bonds in high school because we knew we couldn’t get him out.” 4 Bonds wasn’t the only player who received special attention, though. Powell remembers defenses shifting so far back onto the outfield grass at West Sunset that he hit a few 400-foot outs during his time at Lincoln. Plenty of the public city fields Powell played on didn’t have outfield fences he could crush home runs over, and that hasn’t changed in the last 40 years. The lack of walls is ironic, though, because when it comes to baseball, most city natives are boxed in. “In baseball you need space,” Giants scout Jalal Leach said. “If you’re in the city or in an urban environment, the fields are probably limited. So it’s easier to play something like basketball because it doesn’t take as much space.” Since Powell debuted with the Montreal Expos in 1987, only four other players born in San Francisco who graduated from one of the city’s public high schools have appeared in Major League Baseball games. Micah Franklin (Lincoln) took 37 plate appearances with the Cardinals in 1995, Harvey Pulliam (McAteer) hit eight home runs over six years with the Rockies and Royals from 1991-1997, Kevin Jordan (Lowell) spent seven seasons as a part-timer with the Phillies from 1995-2001 and O’Koyea Dickson (Washington) went 1-for-7 with the Dodgers last season. “A lot of guys weren’t really playing baseball in the area so it was really hard to get a better game for him,” Dickson’s father, Richard, told me last September. “(O’Koyea) had to go out of San Francisco to get better games.” While the suburbs surrounding San Francisco are ripe with Major League talent, the 13th most populous city in the country hasn’t figured out how to produce a crop.
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