{"id":353212,"date":"2026-06-09T15:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/353212\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T15:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:04:09","slug":"after-sf-giants-blow-game-ex-pitcher-drops-epic-rant-on-postgame-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/353212\/","title":{"rendered":"After SF Giants blow game, ex-pitcher drops epic rant on postgame show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former San Francisco Giants<\/a> pitcher Shawn Estes could barely hide his disgust on the NBC Sports Bay Area postgame show after the Giants blew another game, with most of his ire focused on manager Tony Vitello.<\/p>\n

The Giants had gotten eight innings of stellar pitching from Logan Webb and took the lead in the bottom of the eighth with two runs, including one on back-to-back bunts. But Vitello\u2019s decision to go to Keaton Winn for a third game in a row backfired, as Winn allowed three runs and Washington held on for the 4-3 win<\/a>. For a Giants team trying to win their fifth game out of the last six and start digging out of the deep hole they\u2019ve been in<\/a>, losing this game in an incredibly predictable way<\/a> \u2014 a blown save from a pitcher in their incredibly shaky bullpen \u2014simply feels cataclysmic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All of that set up the postgame show on NBC Sports Bay Area, with host Kylen Mills introducing the show before teeing up Estes. The one-time All-Star then spoke almost uninterrupted for the next 2.5 minutes, unleashing an epic rant where he never directly said Vitello\u2019s name but made it clear<\/a> who he felt did wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cKeaton Winn is going to get a lot of blame in this game, and he shouldn\u2019t,\u201d Estes said before breaking down Winn\u2019s two prior appearances in Chicago on Saturday and Sunday. \u201c… The guy\u2019s arm is tired, and you could tell in the ninth inning based on the mistakes he was making with his split. He just didn\u2019t have it, his arm was beat, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

In the rant, Estes made it clear he wanted to see Webb go back out for the ninth inning, even with his pitch count at 99, added that the Giants should have used an ABS challenge to get a strike 3 to end the sixth inning for Webb without allowing a run and even criticized the decision to pitch to Nationals star C.J. Abrams after a passed ball left first base open. (Abrams hit a game-tying two-run single.) After all of that, Estes concluded the point with a sharp critique of Vitello.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t want to be the \u2018hindsight is 20-20\u2019 guy, but it just seems like that last inning, it was, it was lost when the inning started, just based on how it was managed,\u201d Estes said. \u201cAnd I hate to say that, but like, that’s a win you got to have right there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mills stepped back in from there to talk over some highlights from the game and the two had more of a conversation. Still, the left-hander continued to show his frustration throughout the rest of the opening segment, which took up more than half of the 30-minute postgame show.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Later in the long opening segment, NBC Sports Bay Area showed Vitello\u2019s explanation for using Winn, with the manager saying Caleb Killian was unavailable (he had also thrown in both weekend games in Chicago) and that the team \u201cneeded experience\u201d in that moment. While Vitello didn\u2019t elaborate on why one pitcher was available and one wasn\u2019t, Estes pointed out that Winn had thrown more pitches in his two appearances over the weekend than Killian had thrown.<\/p>\n

Estes acknowledged he was strongly advocating for Winn to not pitch in the game, but ended the segment back where he had started.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel for the kid, I feel for him,” Estes said. \u201cHe\u2019s put in a tough position and now he\u2019s going to get the blame for tonight\u2019s game.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

With the loss, the Giants are now 27-40 on the season, the third-worst record<\/a> in all of baseball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former San Francisco Giants pitcher Shawn Estes could barely hide his disgust on the NBC Sports Bay Area…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105,2225],"class_list":["post-353212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sfgsports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353212","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=353212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}