ARLINGTON, Texas --- Hunter Pence, who starred for the UT Arlington baseball program for two seasons in 2003 and 2004, was inducted over the weekend into the San Francisco Giants Wall of Fame, which lines the brick wall of Oracle Park along King Street and serves as a tribute to the organization's greatest players and influential figures.
 
In eight seasons with the Giants, Pence hit .265 with 95 home runs and 412 RBI while winning two World Series championships in 2012 and 2014. The four-time MLB All-Star, who also played five years in Houston, two years in Philadelphia and one year in Texas, was a career .279 hitter with 244 home runs and 942 RBI.
 
In his one season as a member of his hometown Rangers in 2019, Pence was voted an All-Star Game starter and selected as the team's Heart and Hustle Award Winner, which goes to recipients who demonstrate a passion for the game and best embody its values, tradition and spirit.
 
A graduate of Arlington High School, Pence is a member of the UT Arlington Hall of Honor. After spending his first collegiate season at Texarkana College, he transferred to the Mavs, where he was a two-time First Team All-Southland Conference selection and the 2004 Southland Conference Player of the Year. On May 22, 2004, he hit the first inside the park home run in the history of Clay Gould Ballpark. In two seasons with the Mavs, he hit .371 with a .571 slugging percentage and 11 triples. He was taken in the second round, or 64th pick overall, by the Astros in 2004 and made his MLB debut with Houston in 2007.
 
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