You never forget your first

Giants 6, Reds 4

How long does it take to travel from one year to the next? About two minutes.

With the game on the line, Heliot Ramos reenacted a scene that played out over and over again in 2024. He watched strike three pop into the catcher's glove.

Every emotion you didn't miss over the last 179 days bubbled to the surface.

This? This is what I missed? Here comes Patrick Bailey and that’s the ballga… oh.

As if Buster Posey wrote the script to his first game as team president, he cast the Giants young catcher as the hero.

Bailey jabbed one up the middle to tie the game. Wilmer Flores followed with a three-run homer. And somehow the best game of 2025 was the first game, and we're left wondering what it all means.

All we can be certain is that something new is here. At the very least, a new season. At most, a new era.

We’ll find out soon enough.

Up next: Hope the Giants didn’t get you too excited—they’re off today. Back at it again on Saturday at 1:10 p.m. Justin Verlander will make his Giants debut against Nick Lodolo and the Reds.