The captain of the San Francisco Giants — that’s captain with a capital C, crudely concocted with strips of black tape — reported for duty this season in a boat bearing precious cargo. He wore a white captain’s hat with black-and-orange trim, flung his wares starboard and set ground, at last, on a shimmering emerald green.
“He’s a complete bozo in the clubhouse,” the left-handed pitcher Alex Wood said of the captain, Brandon Belt, whose impish humor spilled onto the field on opening day. Belt emerged from the left-field corner, at Oracle Park, standing in the back of a speedboat pulled by a truck along the third-base stands.