After giving up one of the wildest home runs in Oracle Park history — an inside-the-park base-clearer from Tampa Bay’s Luke Raley that careened off the wall in right and hit the top of a wall in center before making its way back over to left field — Giants pitcher Ross Stripling chose to look on the bright side.
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“I was just texting with my dad and he was like, ‘Oh, maybe, it’s one like that that ends the home run curse’ that I’ve been going through,” Stripling said during a postgame interview with KNBR.