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San Francisco Giants receive brutal Harrison Bader injury update<\/p>\n
The San Francisco Giants<\/a> are slated to play the Los Angeles Angels<\/a> on Friday night. The Giants are coming home after an ugly road trip in which they went 1-5 against the Seattle Mariners and Kansas City Royals<\/a>.<\/p>\n The team announced a couple of injury updates to key players before Friday\u2019s matchup.<\/p>\n GettySan Francisco Giants outfielder Harrison Bader<\/a> has not played a game for the team since May 29.<\/p>\n San Francisco Giants Receive Harrison Bader Injury Update<\/p>\n \u201cThe Giants say Harrison Bader is going to see a specialist about his continued foot soreness; he\u2019s not currently doing any baseball work,\u201d according to Alex Pavlovic of NBC Sports Bay Area<\/a>. The center fielder has not played a game for the Giants since May 29.<\/p>\n Starting pitcher Trevor McDonald<\/a>, who sustained a UCL sprain, is also getting a second opinion on his injury this weekend, Pavlovic shared on X<\/a>. McDonald only threw 68 pitches in 4 innings before exiting Monday\u2019s game against the Royals with an injury.<\/p>\n Giants manager Tony Vitello also provided injury updates on both injured players. Vitello told Pavlovic and other reporters<\/a> that he thinks Bader will return this season. But it\u2019s \u201cless likely\u201d with McDonald.<\/p>\n Harrison Bader Thus Far with Giants<\/p>\n San Francisco signed the 32-year-old to a 2-year, $20.5 million contract this offseason in an effort to improve their outfield defense. Bader was named the Giants\u2019 opening day center fielder, which moved Jung Hoo Lee<\/a> to right field.<\/p>\n However, the former Gold-Glove winner has suffered an injury-riddled season with the orange and black. Bader has only played in 30 out of a possible 102 games this season. The 10-year MLB<\/a> veteran has played more than 140 games in each of the last three years.<\/p>\n Bader was not impressive offensively in his small sample size with the Giants. He slashed .170\/ .198\/.358 and had 5 home runs with 14 RBIs before sustaining a foot injury.<\/p>\n San Francisco has given the majority of center field starts to 25-year-old Drew Gilbert<\/a> while Bader missed time.<\/p>\n Gilbert has slashed .226\/.308\/.351 and currently has 4 home runs and 21 RBIs in 80 games played.<\/p>\n GettySAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA \u2013 MAY 23: Harrison Bader #9 of the San Francisco Giants runs the bases after hitting a grand slam home run against the Chicago White Sox<\/a> in the bottom of the fifth inning at Oracle Park on May 23, 2026 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Thearon W. Henderson\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n What\u2019s Next For the Giants<\/p>\n San Francisco (42-60) currently has the third-worst record in Major League Baseball and currently holds a five-game losing streak. They open a three-game homestand against the Los Angeles Angels on Friday night\u2014one of the few teams in baseball with a worse record.<\/p>\n Logan Webb is set to face Grayson Rodriguez<\/a>, with the first pitch scheduled for 7:15 p.m PST.<\/p>\n Giants President of Baseball Operations Buster Posey<\/a> will also have a decision to make before the MLB trade deadline on Aug. 3.<\/p>\n Second baseman Luis Arraez<\/a> and left-handed starting pitcher Robbie Ray are the two likely candidates to be moved. Both players have performed well this season and are on expiring contracts.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tKyle Har<\/a> is a sports reporter focused on the MLB and NFL, covering the San Francisco Giants and San Francisco 49ers for Heavy.com. He has four years of experience as a sports radio producer at KNBR in San Francisco and works as a co-host for their Warriors postgame show, “Dubs OT,” and weekly Warriors talk show “Just Dubs.” More about Kyle Har<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty San Francisco Giants receive brutal Harrison Bader injury update The San Francisco Giants are slated to play…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-411715","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411715","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=411715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"San](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/san-francisco-giants-v-athletics-sacramento-california-may-15-harrison-bader.jpg\")
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