SAN DIEGO — Bruce Bochy isn’t allowing much time for nostalgia during his final weekend in San Diego as a major league manager.
His San Francisco Giants are playing too well for Bochy to spend much time thinking back on the 12 seasons he managed the Padres.
“Maybe the last day I’ll start doing more reflecting,” said Bochy, who has an offseason home in Poway, about 25 miles northeast of Petco Park. “I’m really concentrating on what’s going on with this team.”
The Giants have won 17 of their past 21 games to jump into the National League wild-card race.
Bochy announced during spring training that this would be his 13th and final season managing the Giants. After he was pushed out as San Diego’s manager following the 2006 season, he took the Giants’ job and led them to three World Series titles between 2010 and 2014.
“I made this call back in spring training, and I said then I was going to kind of put it behind me and keep the focus here on the field, and that’s what I’m trying to do,” Bochy said before the Giants and Padres opened a three-game series Friday night. “There’s no question the last day driving here it’s going to be a drive down memory lane, all my moments here, both with San Diego and San Francisco.”
The Padres planned to honor Bochy with a pregame ceremony.