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Giants fan in a Madison Bumgarner jersey dives into McCovey Cove to retrieve Brandon Belt's homer

Ever since AT&T Park opened in 2000, the Giants have tracked the number of home runs blasted over the right-field wall into McCovey Cove and called them "Splash Hits."
Well, Splash Hit No. 69 finally arrived on Wednesday, during the Giants' 2-1 win over the visiting Red Sox. In the fourth inning, Brandon Belt turned around a David Price offering and sent it deep into the Bay Area night:

After the ball bobbed in the water for a few seconds, one Giants fan wearing a Madison Bumgarner jersey apparently decided to dive into the (probably brisk) water, jersey-and-all, to retrieve it.

Let's all just hope somebody gave him a warm towel to dry off after his nautical adventure, considering the game-time temperature was around 60 degrees ...   

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