Crawford received multiple standing ovations and afterward said it was ‘a little overwhelming.’ He has not made a decision about his future.
San Francisco Giants’ Brandon Crawford tips his cap to the fans after being relieved in the ninth inning of their MLB game at Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023. But for the 38,359 who gathered under blue skies at the Giants’ waterfront ballpark one last time this season, it was Brandon Crawford appreciation day.
The loudest and longest was saved for the final time, when he was removed from the game before the top of the ninth inning. Crawford hugged interim manager Kai Correa and each of his fellow infielders, tipped his cap to the fans and was greeted by a procession of hugs upon entering the dugout. “It’s exactly what we hoped for. We wanted him to get his flowers,” Correa said. “The biggest thing is that those roars, the crowd’s reaction, the opposing dugout’s reaction, our dugout’s reaction, people getting emotional, that’s the loudest noise. That overwhelms a single swing or a single moment in today’s game. That was our hope.”
“A dream come true doesn’t quite cover it,” Crawford said. “Pretending to be Giants players in the backyard, growing up coming to games, the dream was always to play for the Giants, not necessarily to win a couple of World Series and be here for 13 years.” Grounding out to shortstop in his last at-bat, Crawford’s batting average fell to .194, like most of his stats, the worst mark of his decorated career.
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