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Wednesday night’s exhibition game between the Giants and River Cats was not Bruce Bochy’s first visit to Raley Field. That came in 2001 – and the experience was unusual.
“I never made the field,” the Giants’ manager said.
Bochy was managing the San Diego Padres, who had scheduled a preseason game in Sacramento. As Bochy recounted Wednesday, the day before that game he was involved in a motorcycle accident that would lead him to manage the first six weeks of the 2001 season on crutches.