SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS WEEKLY NOTES: SEPTEMBER 21-27, 2020 Oracle Park 24 Willie Mays Plaza San Francisco, CA 94107 Phone: 415-972-2000 sfgiants.com sfgigantes.com giantspressbox.com @SFGiants @SFGigantes @SFGiantsMedia NEWS & NOTES GIANTS INTERVIEW SCHEDULE The Giants will announce the 2020 Willie Mac Award winner prior to Saturday night's game vs. San Diego. The “Willie McCovey Award” is an annual honor bestowed upon the most inspiration- al player on the San Francisco Giants, as voted upon by the players, coaches, training staff and fans. The award was established in 1980, in honor of former legend and Hall-of-Famer Willie Monday - September 21 McCovey. The winner will receive a plaque engraved with the words “Competitive Spirit, Ability and Leadership” to characterize the qualities both McCovey and the winner exemplifies. 7:35 a.m. - Mike Krukow Strike Out Violence – The Giants will raise awareness for violence prevention during tonight’s joins Murph & Mac game. Longtime Giants community partner La Casa de las Madres remains committed to end- Tuesday - September 22 ing the cycle of violence against women and children in our communities. La Casa continues to provide emergency shelter, a 24/7 hotline and text line and support for women and children 7:35 a.m. - Duane Kuiper facing domestic violence. Since shelter in place, La Casa has sheltered over 100 women and joins Murph & Mac children and provided over 10,000 meals to survivors 4:30 p.m. - Dave Flemming Through the virtual Junior Giants at Home program, Junior Giants reinforced lessons about bul- joins Tolbert, Krueger & Brooks lying prevention. As part of the curriculum, the Strike Out Bullying Art Contest provided an Wednesday - September 23 opportunity for kids to artistically express what their community THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS would look like if it were violence-free. The Giants will celebrate 7:35 a.m. - Mike Krukow the art contest winners during Monday night’s game: Maceson joins Murph & Mac GamerISSUE 3 11:50 a.m. - Jon Miller from the Daly City T-Ball League, Swara from the Milpitas Mi- nors League, Alana from the Lodi Majors League and Roma from joins Papa & Lund the Milpitas Seniors League. Thursday - September 24 The third and final issue of The Gamer is now out digitally and free for all to download. This month's issue features hot-hitting 7:35 a.m. - Shawn Estes infielderDonovan Solano talking about his baseball upbringings joins Murph & Mac in Colombia and what it's been like for him this season. This is- 5 p.m. - Larry Baer sue also features Assistant Coach Alyssa Nakken as well as a HIT joins Tolbert, Krueger & Brooks look at how this year's virtual Junior Giants at Home program MAKER Friday - September 25 went. Fans can also get a look at series previews for the Giants +UPCOMING SERIES PREVIEWS Donovan Solano MEET ALYSSA NAKKEN Grips and Rips 7:35 a.m. - Mike Krukow remaining opponents in 2020. Click here to read today VIRTUAL JUNIOR GIANTS joins Murph & Mac All Major League Baseball trademarks and copyrights are used with permission of THIS WEEK IN GIANTS HISTORY MLB Advanced Media, L.P. All rights reserved. SEPT With an 8-7 win over the Diamond- shot of the year as well, and the Giants pulled to SEPT SF clinched its first NL West champi- backs, the Giants clinched the NL within 1.5 games of NL West leading Braves. onship in eight years with 6-1 defeat 21 West for their second division title in Box 27 of Padres in front of 48,179. Rod Beck 2000 four years. Box 1997 (below) registered the final three SEPT Newcomer Jaylin Davis hit his first outs, including his strikeout of Greg Vaughn that SEPT Willie Mays hit his 600th career home career home run, hitting a walk-off sent Candlestick into a frenzy. Box run. The historic homer off Mike Cork- 25 solo homer off Colorado’s RHP DJ 22 ins of the Padres proved to be the 2019 1969 Johnson in the bottom of the 9th in- game-winner in a 4-2 Giants victory ning to give the Giants a 2-1 win. He became the at San Diego Stadium. Box first Giant to hit a walk-off homer for his first MLB home run since Fran Healy on April 15, SEPT Barry Bonds hammered his 734th ca- reer home run to establish an all-time 1971 vs. Houston, and the seventh Giant in his- 23 National League record. Bonds sur- tory to do so. Box 2006 passed Hank Aaron in senior circuit annals with solo roundtripper at SEPT Livan Hernandez (12-16) pitched a Milwaukee (off Chris Capuano).Box masterful two-hitter as the Giants 26 beat the Padres 6-0. Hernandez was 2002 tied with Ben Sheets for most losses SEPT Will Clark crushed Gene Harris’ first pitch with two outs in the 10th as SF in the National League. The Giants stayed three 24 downed the Padres 4-3 in front of games ahead of Los Angeles for the Wild Card 1993 24,351. Barry Bonds stroked his 41st spot. Box THIS WEEK'S GIANTS PODCASTS (PRES. BY T-MOBILE) EPISODES 28 & 29 LISTEN NOW Episodes 28 & 29 Episodes 1-8 Mauricio Dubón & Darin Ruf Now Streaming The final two episodes of the pod- Episode 1 - Tito Fuentes cast are here with Mauricio Dubón, Episode 2 - Nick Ortiz Inside Giant Moments takes you released last week, and Darin Ruf, Gigantes Podcast, hosted by Episode 3 - Carlos Orellana behind the scenes of the most chatting for special editions of In- Spanish-language broadcaster Episode 4 - Ciro Villalobos iconic moments in Giants history side THIS Giant Moment. Dubón Erwin Higueros, is a weekly pod- Episode 5 - Pablo Peguero with the players who made these shares his enthusiasm for play- cast that will have interviews from Episode 6 - Jose Alguacil moments, memories. Host Mark ing center field, his eagerness to former Giants players, coaches Episode 7 - Saul Martinez Willard of KNBR dives in each week learn from all of his teammates, and staff members focusing on Episode 8 - Luis Landero with exclusive interviews on the of- his perspective having grown up their culture. Higueros discuss- ficial San Francisco Giants podcast. in Honduras, and his insights on es the difficulties and sacrifices Subscribe Here the uniqueness of 2020 baseball. each of them have faced through- Ruf shares his experience playing out their professional journeys. baseball in Korea, his 2020 journey Subscribe Here to earning a roster spot, and how the Giants hitting coaches have helped him develop as a DH. GIANT BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK Sam Coonrod (28) September 22 GIANTS YOUTUBE CONTENT COMMUNITY CORNER SF-Marin Food Bank in Lot A – SF-Marin Food Bank recently reached 1 million lbs. of food dis- Jugadas Gigantes 2020 tributed during the drive-through operation in Giants Lot A, and are up up to 1.3m lbs. distrib- Watch Beginning Wednesday uted in total. The Food Bank has served nearly 28,000 direct attendees, rippling out to nearly 46,000 individuals, on Lot A since the food pantries began in mid-May. Learn more by visiting There's been plenty of highlights during the 2020 sfmfoodbank.org season thus far. Re-live some of them in this week's highlight video using the calls of Spanish BEYOND THE GIANTS VAULT Radio announcer Erwin Higueros! Housed in a 5,000 square foot building, the of the tenth inning, after foul- Giants Archives consists of memorabilia and ing two balls off, and watching artifacts from our team’s 138-year history. As two balls go by, Terry lifted a fly part of the Giants Fan Page, fans can now, for ball into deep left center field the first time, learn about and view memora- which DiMaggio caught, but he bilia from our collection. was unable to throw out Jo-Jo Sometimes exciting things can happen even Moore who scampered home when the Giants lose the World Series. from third base with the win- The 1936 World Series was the fourth time ning run for the Giants. the New York Giants played the NY Yankees More pins from the World Se- for the title, and the first time the Yankees had ries pin collections will be on- Bay Area native, Joe DiMaggio, patrolling center field in the Fall Classic. line starting Thursday The highlight for the Giants may have been when player/manager Bill Ter- ry helped his team win the fifth game with a sacrifice single. In the bottom GIANTS PLAYER SPOTLIGHT | MAURICIO DUBÓN Born and raised in San Pedro Sula, ter school, it was eat, then go to base- Two years later, in 2016, Boston trad- Honduras, the country’s second larg- ball.” ed him to the Brewers and he quickly est city after the capital, Tegucigalpa. Their grandmother let them turn her became Milwaukee’s No. 5 prospect. A city of more than 600,000 people garden into a makeshift baseball yard, An ACL tear shortened his 2018 until recently known as the “murder where they would play for hours. “We minor-league season. He returned in capital of the world,” with 187 homi- made a little Wiffle ball field, literally 2019 to the minors and hit .297 and cides per 100,000 residents in 2013, in the garden,” Mauricio says. “She al- 16 home runs in his first 98 games. He San Pedro Sula was once the hub of a ways planted flowers but we would was promoted to the big leagues in thriving banana trade. kick them around because we were July of that season, becoming the first Mauricio remembers the city playing.” true Honduran to reach the majors.