Dave Edlund was born for the water.
The Giants superfan spends his summer nights in a kayak in McCovey Cove and his days at the bottom of golf course ponds. In both instances his goal is to retrieve as as many balls as possible.
There was one ball the man known as McCovey Cove Dave wanted more than any other this year.
“Every ball hawk in San Francisco knows that. . .
“If you catch it and it never hits water, is it a splash hit?” he wondered. “It’d still be a splash hit but it would have never splashed.