SAN FRANCISCO — With the way Hunter Pence is swinging the bat for the River Cats, Joe Panik must have been tempted to stick him in the backseat on the trip down from Reno today. The Giants will wait a bit longer with Pence, but they at least got one key bat back in time for the first-place Nationals.
Panik said he’s “feeling normal again” and all the concussion symptoms have dissipated, so he’s back in the lineup a day early. Panik was supposed to play nine innings for the River Cats today.
“I figured that if I could play nine innings in Reno, I could play nine here,” he said.