SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Giants manager Gabe Kapler was so busy conferring with one of his assistant coaches that he was unable to get a good look at J.D. Davis’ home run off Kenley Jansen in the ninth inning that gave San Francisco a 3-2 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Saturday night.
Davis didn’t give his skipper much time to see it, either, crushing a 92 mph slider from Jansen for the walk-off hit.
“I was talking to other people thinking about other things and then he hit the home run,” Kapler said. “I watched it go off the pole.