Outfielder Jung-hoo Lee’s first home run in a Giants uniform during a spring training game on Thursday came with an ironic caveat: If it happened in Oracle Park, the ball wouldn’t have gone over the fence.
The dinger happened in the top of the third against the Diamondbacks. Lee smoked a fastball thrown over the middle of the plate to right center field to give the Giants their only run in a 2-1 loss in the spring training exhibition at Salt River Fields. Reporters at the game noted that the Korean international began his trot with a hard sprint before slowing down a tad when he realized what happened to the ball.