Alyssa Nakken Makes History

During the San Francisco Giants game tonight, history was taking place. Not just the shortest start of Yu Darvish’s career, but also among the coaches. After umpire Greg Gibson ejected the the Giants’ usual first-base coach, Antoan Richardson, one of the other coaches in uniform stepped forward to take Richardson’s place: Alyssa Nakken. In doing so, she became the first woman to coach on-field in a major league baseball game.

Nakken has been with the Giants since 2014, when she served as an intern in the baseball operations department. She was a standout softball player at Sacramento State before that. With the Giants, she worked her way up the organization, and was promoted to assistant…