News about Gabe Kapler

According to sources, the San Francisco Giants actually interviewed assistant coach Alyssa Nakken as they look for a new boss. According to The Athletic, Nakken is expected to be the first woman to be a front-runner for a top uniformed role in Major League Baseball. In 2020, the 33-year-old made history by becoming the first female to be voted to an MLB coaching position. When former coach Gabe Kapler was hired, she was one of 13 coaches on staff.

According to ESPN's Jeff Passan, the San Francisco Giants have fired Gabe Kapler as the team's boss. For the third time in the Giants' four seasons as boss, they failed to make the playoffs.

Flemming, 47, was on-and-off the field for three innings at Oracle Park on Monday before returning to the booth to call the game on radio in the fourth inning. Flemming has been the Giants' play-by-play voice since 2003, but he couldn't stop San Francisco from losing at home, 10-2. This year is the second consecutive year that the Giants have adopted the practice of yelling workers and players who have fallen in last place in fantasy football to serve as bat boys.

After playing for years in Japan, Masataka Yoshida has already made some mechanical improvements at the plate during his rookie season with the Boston Red Sox. They certainly paid the bill on Sunday. Boston roared to beat the Milwaukee Brewers 12-5 after Yoshida homered twice during Boston's nine-run outburst in the eighth inning. Since Hall of Fame slugger David Ortiz's debut in August 2008, he became the first Red Sox player to go deep in a single inning.

During the long wait, Journey's When the Lights Go Down in the City was broadcast along with Ellie Goulding's Lights blaring through the speakers, in which some of the globes did indeed return to working order. The Padres thrashed the San Francisco Giants 6-5 and remained seemingly unaffected by the disruptions.