Brandon Crawford threw out the first pitch at Oracle Park before the Giants’ game Saturday against the Texas Rangers.

In his first major league game, Crawford hit a grand slam off Milwaukee’s Shaun Marcum in a 5-4 win May 27, 2011. Since the Giants began playing in San Francisco in 1958, Crawford ranks in among the team's top 10 in hits (1,392, fifth), doubles (290, fifth) and triples (44, third).

On Saturday afternoon, Brandon Crawford stood behind a podium in front of the pitcher’s mound at Oracle Park and gave the longest speech of his life. It was the longest bit of public speaking he’d done since he was in school,