{"id":506180,"date":"2026-02-26T21:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T21:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/506180\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T21:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T21:44:11","slug":"giants-bader-autographs-food-truck-dented-by-spring-training-home-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/506180\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants’ Bader autographs food truck dented by spring training home run"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOENIX (AP) — That was quite a dinger for Harrison Bader<\/a>, who left a mark with his first home run for the San Francisco Giants<\/a> this spring training.<\/p>\n

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Bader’s 408-foot homer to left field in the Giants’ 13-12 loss against Milwaukee on Wednesday put a visible dent near the top on the side of a food truck. After exiting the game, the center fielder visited that concession area, met the truck’s owner and — instead of partaking in an acai bowl — added his autograph just below where the ball hit on the fly.<\/p>\n

After climbing up, Bader signed his name along with his number and added: “Sorry.”<\/p>\n

“It’s just a random, funny thing,” Bader told reporters.<\/p>\n

Bader, who is set to play for Israel in the World Baseball Classic, joined the Giants last month after agreeing to a $20.5 million, two-year contract.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old, a Gold Glove winner with St. Louis in 2021, batted .277 with 17 home runs, 54 RBIs and a .796 OPS in 146 games with the Minnesota Twins<\/a> and Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) — That was quite a dinger for Harrison Bader, who left a mark with his first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-506180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}