The crowd noise was artificial, the only fans in attendance were cardboard cut-outs and no high fives or handshakes were allowed, but for the first time in four months, the San Francisco Giants played a baseball game.
Exhibition games are rarely memorable, yet a mid-July 6-2 victory over the Oakland A’s will go down in history anyway.
In the late innings of Monday’s game, Giants assistant coach Alyssa Nakken replaced Antoan Richardson as the team’s first base coach, becoming the first woman to coa. . .