{"id":320981,"date":"2026-05-18T08:44:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/320981\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T08:44:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:44:24","slug":"giants-as-game-set-for-strong-winds-in-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/320981\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants-A\u2019s game set for strong winds in Sacramento"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hats, food wrappers and flyballs are expected to soar when the San Francisco Giants play the  A\u2019s at 1:05 p.m. Sunday. Winds are forecast to reach up to 30 mph out of the northwest at the stadium, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Arneson, chief technology officer at Weather Applied Metrics, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/sports\/giants\/article\/sf-giants-game-sunday-feature-game-changing-wind-22261476.php?taid=6a09050b32982f000154c6e0&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem%2B3988&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\">told the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a> that gusts could be strong enough to push flyballs as much as 115 feet back toward home plate.<\/p>\n<p>A ball that might have been a home run in calm conditions could instead turn into a single if an outfielder misjudges it in the wind.<\/p>\n<p>A San Francisco Chronicle senior baseball reporter, posted on social media that conditions in Sacramento were difficult even before the game began.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Can confirm the wind here today is insane. Unpleasant for a normal person, can\u2019t imagine what it\u2019s going to be like for an outfielder. Or a player who belts a ball that gets pushed back this far \u2b07\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w6bNJphVHU\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/w6bNJphVHU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Susan Slusser (@susanslusser) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/susanslusser\/status\/2056058597990416604?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 17, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan confirm the wind here today is insane,\u201d she tweeted. \u201cUnpleasant for a normal person, can\u2019t imagine what it\u2019s going to be like for an outfielder. Or a player who belts a ball that gets pushed back this far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Players and fans may find the wind a nuisance, but the gusts also have the potential to make the game \u2014 or a player \u2014memorable. Think pitcher Stu Miller and his much-discussed <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/10400321\/did-stu-miller-really-get-blown-off-the-mound-at-candlestick-park\">balk at notoriously windy Candlestick Park.<\/a> Decades later, whether he was blown off the mound is still debated.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/314568916\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/SAC_0021_PK_20260121_BUSS.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Nicole Buss\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/314568916\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicole Buss<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Nicole Buss is The Sacramento Bee\u2019s Roseville\/Placer County watchdog reporter. She previously covered Placer County at Gold Country Media. Buss grew up in Lincoln and is a graduate of Sierra College and Arizona State University.\n            <\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hats, food wrappers and flyballs are expected to soar when the San Francisco Giants play the A\u2019s at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-320981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}