No it wasn’t the most glamorous of walk-offs.
It would’ve been cool to see Heliot Ramos, the centerfielder on the day San Francisco honored The Centerfielder, bounce one off the Willie Mays wall in right, stretching out his back swing as Mays did, showing off his number 24 to the first base dugout and the screaming crowd behind it as he measured the ball’s flight over his right shoulder before chasing it out of the box.
But in the thick of five-game losing streak in which they hadn’t won a game since Say Hey’s passing, the Giants weren’t going to be picky.