Oracle Park: The Ballpark, McCovey Cove and Mission Rock

2nd and King station, at King Street at 2nd Street, is adjacent to Oracle Park. It opened in 1998 and became a major transit hub when the ballpark, then called Pacific Bell Park, opened in 2000. The N Judah Muni Metro line serves it, running from the Caltrain depot in the Mission Bay district to Ocean Beach and the Great Highway in the Sunset District, and the line's station listing states that it serves Oracle Park. The T Third Street line served the station historically; that service was rerouted away from it in January 2023.

Caltrain's San Francisco station is at 700 Fourth Street at King Street, and the ballpark is at 24 Willie Mays Plaza; both are reached by way of the King Street corridor. Caltrain runs extra trains on game days to carry passengers to and from the ballpark. The station is served by Muni bus routes 15, 30 and 45, with overnight service on the N Bus, N Owl, T Bus and 91 Owl routes.

Boats reach the park directly. San Francisco Bay Ferry runs three Oracle Park services: from the Main Street Terminal on the northern shore of Alameda Island and the Oakland Ferry Terminal to the China Basin Ferry Terminal adjacent to the ballpark, for most Giants home games and concerts; from the Vallejo Ferry Terminal to the same China Basin terminal for all weekend home games; and from the Richmond Ferry Terminal to the Pier 48.5 Ferry Terminal for select home games. The Oracle Park ferry terminal is outside the eastern edge of the ballpark, and behind center field there is a pier where ferries let passengers off at the park.

On parking, three findings and no price. MLB.com's own transportation page returned HTTP 406 on every fetch. The SFMTA site has no Oracle Park parking page that resolved, and its general driving pages say only that metered street parking exists on the waterfront with rates checked in real time. The Port of San Francisco's page likewise says only that metered street parking is available on the waterfront, and links to a third-party garage finder rather than naming an official lot or a price. No parking cost is published here.

Two of this guide's businesses are on the city side. Red's Java House is a waterfront diner at 30 Pier, serving burgers on San Francisco sourdough with onions, pickles and yellow mustard, alongside breakfast, hot dogs, fish and chips, daily specials and a full bar; the city registry has carried the business at Pier 30 since November 2010, under its present corporate name since July

2016. Its own site says it has been doing the same thing since 1955, and that year appears nowhere else the research reached, so it is published as the business's claim and not as a date. The registry and the site also disagree about its ZIP code, which this research could not settle.

MoMo's is an American bar and grill at 760 2nd St. Its own site establishes the address and the format, and that is all: the registry row that would have corroborated it independently could not be reproduced on re-fetch, so this guide does not say whether the restaurant is trading now. It does not say it has closed either.

Across McCovey Cove is Mission Rock, and three of its businesses are here. Flour + Water Pizza Shop is at 1090 Dr Maya Angelou Lane, Suite A — wood-fired pizza from the group whose flagship serves handmade pastas and Neapolitan-style pizzas — though the city registry and the Mission Rock article give the location two different public-facing names, and which is current could not be established. Arsicault Bakery is at 1070 Bridgeview Way, Unit B, one of four Arsicault Bakery Inc locations the registry carries as active. Blue Bottle Coffee is at 300 Toni Stone Crossing, Suite E, on the registry since August 5, 2025.

China Basin Park is at the mouth of Mission Creek in Mission Bay, across from the ballpark. Its five acres opened to the public before the Giants' home opener on April 5, 2024, with an official grand opening on April 25, after fifteen years of planning alongside the Mission Rock development. It holds a hilly lawn, a dog run, an artificial beach, amphitheater seating and a Willie McCovey statue, and a section of the Bay Trail runs through it. It is under the Port of San Francisco's jurisdiction rather than the city's Recreation and Parks Department.

One thing to know about the record behind all of this. Web search was exhausted before the first query of this research, and the city's Registered Business Locations dataset did the work of discovery. That dataset finds registered businesses; it is blind to unregistered ones and to anything press coverage would have surfaced. This is not a complete inventory of the neighbourhood, and it does not claim to be.

Groundbreaking was on December 11, 1997 and the ballpark opened on March 31, 2000. HOK Sport, now known as Populous, was the architect. The stadium cost $357 million to build, about $667 million in 2025 dollars, and was the first Major League Baseball ballpark built without public funds since Dodger Stadium was completed in 1962 — though the Giants received a $10 million tax abatement and $80 million for upgrades to local infrastructure. No source reached states an architectural style for it, and this guide supplies none.

The name has changed four times. Pacific Bell bought the naming rights for the planned ballpark on April 3, 1996, for $50 million over 24 years, and it opened as Pacific Bell Park. It became SBC Park on January 1, 2004, after SBC acquired Pacific Bell's parent company, and took its third name in six years as AT&T Park in 2006. It has been Oracle Park since January 10, 2019.

Capacity is 41,331 as of 2021. The park hosted the 2007 Major League Baseball All-Star Game and received LEED Silver Certification in April 2010. Barry Bonds hit his record-breaking 756th career home run here on August 7, 2007, passing Hank Aaron's career record, and Jonathan Sanchez pitched the park's first no-hitter on July 10, 2009.

The dimensions carry names. The right-field wall is 24 feet high for Willie Mays, whose statue stands in front of the entrance at 24 Willie Mays Plaza, surrounded by 24 palm trees for his uniform number; the right-field foul pole is 309 feet from home plate. A Willie McCovey statue was dedicated in 2003 at McCovey Point, a Juan Marichal in 2005 at the Lefty O'Doul Gate entrance, an Orlando Cepeda at the corner of 2nd Street and King Street, and a Gaylord Perry on August 13, 2016. The bay beyond the right-field wall is unofficially McCovey Cove; as of August 16, 2026, 110 splash hits had been knocked into it by Giants players since the park opened, 35 of them by Bonds.

The franchise was established in 1883 as the New York Gothams, renamed the New York Giants in 1885, and relocated to San Francisco in 1958; on April 15, 1958 it played its first game in the city, beating the former Brooklyn and now Los Angeles Dodgers 8-0. It has won eight World Series titles: 1905, 1921, 1922, 1933 and 1954 in New York, and 2010, 2012 and 2014 in San Francisco, the last three under manager Bruce Bochy, which made the Giants the second team in National League history to win three championships in five years. The franchise has more wins than any other in Major League Baseball history, and 67 representatives inducted into the Hall of Fame, more than any other team in the history of baseball.