Taylor Swift-themed SF Giants game brings out all the hits

SAN FRANCISCO — Taylor Swift’s “Era’s Tour” concert rocked Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara on Saturday night. But attendees of the Giants’ 3-2 walkoff victory over the Boston Red Sox earlier in the day still heard several of Swift’s infectious hits. 

Before Giants batters took their swings, and in between innings, the sounds of the pop star’s expansive discography filled the air around Oracle Park. 

The players’ normal walkup songs were replaced by a selection of the 12-time Grammy winner’s greatest hits (and songs from ‘Reputation.’)

A few seconds before Wilmer Flores drove in Austin Slater, the guitar riff from “Style” floated around the park. 

Next up was walk-off hero, J.D Davis, who was introduced by a short section of “Teardrops on My Guitar” from the Grammy-winner’s debut album. 

Davis could only be described as Ready for It when offered a Kenley Jansen pitch that he turned into a game-winning home run. 

And so on and so forth, a playlist that went back and forth between Swift’s 13 studio albums (10 unique and three re-releases), curated by longtime shortstop Brandon Crawford, belted through the speakers in the hours before Swift took the stage a few miles to the south. 

“A favorite album, oh, I don’t know,” Crawford said. “They’re all so different.”

This isn’t the first time Crawford, also known as DJ BC Raw, has taken control of the team’s walkup music. It is team tradition for Crawford to select his teammate’s songs for the final home game of the season.

Crawford, who said he watched Swift perform in concert 12 years ago in Arizona, said some of his teammates were picky when it came to their songs.

“I had ‘Shake it Off’ for him,” Crawford said about Casey Schmitt’s original song, which was changed to another 1989 tune in ‘Wildest Dreams.’