This is great stuff from the Panda. Not just the Splash Hit off King Felix, but the tug on the GIANTS bar on the front of the uniform after crossing home plate. The big boy is back home and I can tell you, that kind of thing tugs at the heart.
He is in a better place now and that's good. He was as out of place as a Panda can be in Boston and he needed to migrate back home. In a corporate world of data and numbers and dollars and cents, a little tug on the heart might do this Giants team a lot of good and not just from the Panda.
Giants club 4 home runs in rout of Mariners:
"By Chris Haft MLB.com @sfgiantsbeat
1:25 AM ET
SAN FRANCISCO -- Each of the Giants' four home runs in their 10-1 rout of the Mariners on Wednesday proved to be distinctive. None, however, was as special as the one by Pablo Sandoval.
It was a Splash Hit, touching down in San Francisco Bay as if an astronaut were aboard. It was an act of fulfillment, given Sandoval's pregame prediction that he would hit one out in his first start of the season. And it was hit by Sandoval, who remains beloved by Giants fans for his association with the franchise's World Series-winning clubs and his enduring charisma.
"I ain't gonna lie. He called it," right fielder Andrew McCutchen said. "He said he was going to hit a homer today."
That was an ambitious boast, since Mariners ace Felix Hernandez, a six-time All-Star and the 2010 American League Cy Young Award winner, was on the mound. But Sandoval, 3-for-8 with two homers lifetime against his fellow Venezuelan Hernandez, felt confident. Said Sandoval, "I was telling the guys I faced Felix before. I had a feeling that we were going to come to the field to do some damage today, as a team and as an offense.""
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