If you ask Google whether a right-handed batter has ever hit a home run into McCovey Cove, which sits just beyond the right field wall of the San Francisco Giants’ ballpark on the bay, the auto-generated answers will tell you no, no one ever has. But Buster Posey has come close.
In the first game of the most anticipated series of the 2021 baseball season and the first playoff game in San Francisco since 2016, Posey came close again. With one on and two out in the first inning, the 34-year-old catcher and holder of institutional knowledge put a pitch in the water.