SF Giants Baseball is again torture. Bring it

San Francisco – You cannot say that the Voltueur des Giants Mike Yastrzemski does not know his team.

Friday, before the Giants’ home opening, I asked him to define what the Giants 2025 baseball is.

“Hard nose base,” said Yaztremski. “We play until the end. You can see him in this clubhouse where each guy cares about winning more than he cares about them.”

And as long as we do this, the results will talk about themselves. »»

This is the kind of comment that challenged me not to roll my eyes. I read it as Ballpark at the start of the season – the empty platitudes that each team spits in March and April, when everything could theoretically occur in a season.

But Yaz is an overview.

The first six games of the Giants campaign certainly correspond to its description.

But it is clear that the giants saved the very good things for the beginnings of Friday in Oracle Park – a case of extra -inning of 243 minutes which had four links, six changes in mind, a wild land that lost near the game and a single of two sleeves.

Yes, it is early, but Giants’ baseball is really really tortuous.

And although we all take over our breath and we make ourselves a drink to overcome what this 11 -sleeved competition was, let us all admit that exhaustion, laborious and downright nervous is a significant upgrade compared to boredom – a recent team of the giants boasted in the shovel.

For a crowd not quite wrapped, taking advantage of the first match of the 25th season of Oracle Park, Friday’s match was one for lamentation and memory.

It was certainly not an afternoon to forget.

The Giants celebrated a quarter of a century at the corner of King and third on Friday, bringing some of the winners of the National West National League on the ground (the MVP NL 2000, Jeff Kent, was obvious – maybe he was cleaning his truck), to make a good measure.

“I still call it the new stadium,” said Manager Bob Melvin about Oracle Park. “It always looks like a new stadium. This place, Baltimore – These are special places. ”

He is not wrong. Is there a better place to watch a baseball match on the planet, especially by a sunny day at 65 degrees like Friday in the city?

No sir. And you cannot convince the opposite, even if a four -hour baseball match could violate the protocols in the Geneva conventions.

But while the day was perfect in the trade chamber, and the result was also, the giants’ game on the diamond was anything but.

Justin Verlander gathered only seven withdrawals during his first departure from Oracle Park as a giant. The 42 -year -old fast four -fashion ball – his Bugaboo 2024 on which the opponents struck 0.299 – was ineffective against a Seattle team who had sat there. He left the giants to use seven readers, including two (Lou Trivino and Camilo Doval) were struck by blown stops in the box score.

Yes, two blown judgments. As I said, it was a wild game.

And the giants were 5 -in -27 with runners in a score position before Willy Adames – playing her first home game as a giant – returned to the house two at the bottom of the 11th round, with the second base player Tyler Fitzgerald who blows by the stop panel of the third base Matt Williams coach to mark the winning race.

The earthquency of the Fitzgerald base will be remembered and appreciated for the years to come.

The fans returned home happy, exhausted and probably burned by the sun. (Take it to someone whose children are half-Scotte-You need to reapply every two hours, people.)

And probably to the chagrin of the baseball commissioner Rob Manfred (who, given what is happening with the A to West Sacramento, is clearly on vacation in a place without access to MLB.TV – Wait, it is most of the places these days), it was a full and fulfilling day at the stadium.

Was it torture – a Machiavellian baseball brand that the giants seem to play? Absolutely.

But a victory is a victory. It is five consequences for the giants, in fact.

More importantly, this is the first real memory of the 2025 season.

And, as you may have heard, making memories is the real company of this team.

Originally published: April 4, 2025 at 6.54 p.m.