18 min
McCovey Cove, Part 2 Storied: San Francisco
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- Personal Journals
Bear with us a moment. We're gonna go stats nerd on you.
As of the publication of this episode, the San Francisco Giants have played a total of 1,892 games at the stadium known these days as Oracle Park. Each of those games sees a minimum of 27 at-bats for Giants players. That leaves us with at least 51,057 chances for a hitter to send a home run ball into the waters of McCovey Cove. And it's happened a mere 97 times. That's something like a 0.19 percent chance that any batter will accomplish the feat.
And on the very day this July when we boarded the Canoecycle, lo and behold, we got a splash hit.
Hear all about it from the human in a kayak who got that Lamont Wade, Jr.'s, home run ball and more, as we present the second part of our podcast on McCovey Cove.
Photography by Michelle Kilfeather
Bear with us a moment. We're gonna go stats nerd on you.
As of the publication of this episode, the San Francisco Giants have played a total of 1,892 games at the stadium known these days as Oracle Park. Each of those games sees a minimum of 27 at-bats for Giants players. That leaves us with at least 51,057 chances for a hitter to send a home run ball into the waters of McCovey Cove. And it's happened a mere 97 times. That's something like a 0.19 percent chance that any batter will accomplish the feat.
And on the very day this July when we boarded the Canoecycle, lo and behold, we got a splash hit.
Hear all about it from the human in a kayak who got that Lamont Wade, Jr.'s, home run ball and more, as we present the second part of our podcast on McCovey Cove.
Photography by Michelle Kilfeather
18 min