

Watch live video from hunterpence on TwitchTVSan Francisco Giants right fielder Hunter Pence is winning fans playing a different game.

Pence has launched his own live streaming channel on Twitch.tv, the popular San Francisco online video game site. He was on Twitch for 2 1/2 hours on Monday afternoon playing “Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft” against random opponents.

A longtime hardcore video game player, Pence also answered texts with questions from fans about baseball and video games. In the video clip above, Pence delivers a finishing blow to an opponent using a rare legendary card and celebrates with the raised-hands “Yes” move he and his teammates are using in the dugout this season.

Also in the stream, he’s as excited as he gets after hitting a baseball 450 feet when he opens “Hearthstone” game packs to find Leper Gnome, King Mukla and Savannah Highmane. (You “Hearthstone” fans out there know the importance of those cards.)

Pence was also on Twitch twice more in the past week, including one session playing “Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition” on his Xbox One against challengers from his online audience. It was near midnight, but he was probably still stoked from playing in Tim Lincecum’s no-hitter during the day.

Pence said he plans to stream on Twitch before or after ballgames, but “I’m not going to stream at night if we lose.”

That might not be good news for video game fans considering the Giants are in the middle of an epic slump. But Pence remained optimistic.

“We’re going to win a lot, so I’m going to stream a lot,” he said.

Twitch has more than 45 million monthly active viewers and more than one million who stream cast their games. While Twitch is known for showcasing famous professional video gamers, Pence is the best known pro sports athlete on Twitch, a company spokesman said.

Here’s a replay of Monday’s broadcast on twitch.tv/hunterpence:



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