{"id":257192,"date":"2026-04-08T07:09:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/257192\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T07:09:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:09:42","slug":"sf-giants-manager-reveals-team-has-already-had-3-clubhouse-incidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/257192\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Giants manager reveals team has already had 3 clubhouse incidents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before Monday\u2019s game against the Phillies, a reporter asked Vitello to assess the past week, which featured a 3-4 record but three straight losses to the Mets. In his answer, the Giants skipper revealed that three \u201cminor\u201d clubhouse incidents have already taken place this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cA couple things we were able to keep from you guys, which was great,\u201d Vitello said, speaking to reporters from the dugout<\/a>. \u201cBut if you lump those two, and the one you\u2019re referencing, which is kind of the meeting on the mound, we\u2019ve really only had three things that have been \u2014 I don\u2019t want to say controversial \u2019cause that\u2019s a mislabel \u2014 but kind of some intensity back and forth a little bit. We\u2019ve played our best three games following that.\u201d<\/p>\n

While this comment came after a reporter\u2019s question, revealing this clubhouse secret in a relatively unprompted manner is curious, to say the least. Perhaps the reason why Vitello brought this information out from behind closed doors is because, as he tells it, these moments all preceded the Giants\u2019 three wins this season.<\/p>\n

However, that silver lining doesn\u2019t have much shine on it, especially since the context of the reporter\u2019s question was a stretch of tough outings from Matt Chapman. It started earlier this month when the veteran third baseman was caught yelling \u201cCatch the\u00a0f\u2014king ball\u201d at Casey Schmitt during a mound visit in San Diego<\/a> after Chapman\u2019s throw sailed over the first baseman\u2019s head. Then, on Sunday, Chapman was tagged out on an uncharacteristically ill-advised stolen base attempt in the ninth inning. Vitello\u2019s spin on this was that these mistakes remind veterans like Chapman that \u201cthey\u2019re human, and they\u2019re a part of the deal, and there\u2019s nothing wrong with anyone else holding them accountable.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

When the presser later returned to these incidents, a reporter asked for a quick clarification on where they all happened. Vitello insisted that these incidents were all minor and that the two moments behind closed doors were \u201cmore harmless\u201d than what Chapman said to Schmitt on the mound. He also dropped another Vitello-ism in his response while talking about the media environment that allowed the Chapman-Schmitt moment to proliferate.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike, I wouldn\u2019t be sitting here in college\u00a0\u2014 I don\u2019t know if you guys would be too\u00a0\u2014 if there was Twitter or cameras all over the place,\u201d Vitello said. \u201cI might be in jail or something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The comment got a laugh from at least one reporter, so there\u2019s another silver lining for the Giants throughout this early 3-7 season of struggles: The new manager\u2019s charm hasn\u2019t worn off on everybody just yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before Monday\u2019s game against the Phillies, a reporter asked Vitello to assess the past week, which featured a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105,2225],"class_list":{"0":"post-257192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-san-francisco","9":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","10":"tag-san-francisco-news","11":"tag-sf","12":"tag-sf-headlines","13":"tag-sf-news","14":"tag-sfgsports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}