The streak lives…for one more day
One of the more dubious streaks in baseball is set to end tomorrow…and I’m kinda sad about it.
Aug 15, 2025; San Francisco, California, USA; San Francisco Giants left fielder Heliot Ramos (17) fields a fly ball against the Tampa Bay Rays during the sixth inning at Oracle Park. Mandatory Credit: Neville E. Guard-Imagn Images | Neville E.
Guard-Imagn Images To start, and going against all the advice I give my students about constructing effective persuasive arguments, feel free to disregard this idea from the jump. Tony Vitello already has . I can hear his disembodied voice, sounding suddenly a lot like Graham Chapman, tutting in my ear as I write this: Stop that, it’s too silly .
Yes, having Heliot Ramos anywhere but left field in the Opening Day roster would be a silly thing to do, especially if the sole reason for doing so is to maintain the San Francisco Giants’ freak-streak of starting a different Opening Day left fielder every year since Barry Bonds in 2007. Yet it is late March. Baseball blooms.
The days widen. Flowers throw color from their petals, and I remember Nori Aoki. The Streak lives — at least, for one more day.