TAMPA — The biggest save of Dan Giese’s professional life occurred in San Diego, although not at PETCO Park.
“I was on patrol at 4 in the morning,” Giese recalled last week at George M. Steinbrenner Field, “and I see this car casing some parking lots. I’m just going to go down the street, drive by and talk to the driver. Once I turned the lights to talk to them, they just bolted, took off. They start screeching through this parking lot.
“They had one of those bars to go up and down [to exit the lot].