Quick Notes: San Francisco Giants' Alyssa Nakken becomes the first woman to coach on the field in an MLB game, taking over as first-base coach

Last night there was a bit of history that occurred during the San Franciso Giants game. For the first time, a woman was a coach on the field in an MLB game. San Francisco Giants' Alyssa Nakken became the first woman to coach on the field in an MLB game, taking over as first-base coach.

Nakken took over as the Giants’ first-base coach in the top of the third inning after Antoan Richardson was ejected from the game by crew chief Greg Gibson following a dispute with Padres's third-base coach Mike Shildt. Nakken said bench coach Kai Correa came down to the batting cages and told her she would be replacing Richardson. And so she made her on-field coaching debut with the Giants, who originally hired the 31-year-old as an assistant coach in January 2020.