Mark Canha couldn’t have planned his first home game against the San Francisco Giants better.

After being traded from the Detroit Tigers on July 30, Canha finally made his debut at Oracle Park for the Giants on Friday. It was a big moment for the 35-year-old veteran, who grew up in San Jose, rooted for San Francisco as a kid and played seven seasons for the Oakland A’s.

And as if that wasn’t enough, the Giants were facing Canha’s old team, the Tigers, which raised the stakes even higher.

The game more than lived up to expectations. Detroit took an early lead and managed a no-hitter until the seventh inning, but San Francisco caught up and tied the game in the bottom of the eighth inning, setting the stage for a dramatic end to the ninth inning with the game on the line.

Heliot Ramos, facing Tigers closer Jason Foley, started with a fielding error by Colt Keith that put him on base. Foley immediately collapsed, walking Michael Conforto and hitting Matt Chapman with a pitch, leaving all the bases loaded and no one out.

Shelby Miller replaced Foley and got Mike Yastrzemski to hit a ground ball that forced him out. Ramos was taken out of the game at home, but the bases were still loaded with only one out.

That brought Canha into the picture, who had already hit a single in the eighth inning to tie the game. Now in his 10th season with over 1,000 MLB games under his belt, Canha knew what he had to do: hit the ball in the air.

And sure enough, that’s exactly what he did. After tying the score at 2-2, Canha hit a fly ball to left field that was far enough to bring Conforto home for the game-winning run and send Oracle Park into an uproar.

Canha is now 8-for-18 (.444) with three RBIs since joining the Giants, who are 4-1 with him on the roster. He may have seemed like an insignificant addition at the time, but he’s already made a big impact.