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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 26: Willy Adames #2 of the San Francisco Giants spits sunflower seeds in the fifth inning against the Atlanta Braves at Oracle Park on June 26, 2026 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Eakin Howard\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
The San Francisco Giants<\/a> haven\u2019t had the season they envisioned by any means, and they fell 8-1 to the Cleveland Guardians in Tuesday night\u2019s series opener.<\/p>\n Ahead of Wednesday\u2019s matchup, however, the Giants announced a notable lineup change involving infielder Willy Adames, who has been sidelined with a back injury. Adames hasn\u2019t played since Aug. 12 against the Houston Astros<\/a>, when he left the game early.<\/p>\n Giants Announce Adames News<\/p>\n For Wednesday night\u2019s matchup, the Giants revealed that Adames will return to the lineup for the first time in a week. He\u2019ll start at shortstop and bat third in the order.<\/p>\n Via Underdog MLB<\/a>: \u201cGiants 8\/19 J. Cox CF R. Devers DH W. Adames SS B. Eldridge 1B V. Bericoto LF J. Lee RF O. Basabe 2B D. Cavanaugh C C. Koss 3B M. Wilkinson SP.\u201d<\/p>\n Giants 8\/19<\/p>\n J. Cox CF M. Wilkinson SP<\/p>\n \u2014 Underdog MLB (@UnderdogMLB) August 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Adames\u2019 2026 Season<\/p>\n Outside of this brief stint on the sidelines, Adames has played in nearly every game for the Giants this season despite never landing on the IL. He\u2019s appeared in 116 games and logged 446 at-bats, batting .224 while slugging .413 with a .697 OPS.<\/p>\n He\u2019s also recorded 59 runs, 100 hits, 19 home runs, 48 RBIs and 36 walks.<\/p>\n Looking at the Giants<\/p>\n San Francisco is well out of the postseason race at 51-74 overall. The Giants sit 24.0 games back in the NL West and 15.5 games out of a Wild Card spot.<\/p>\n Despite this, Buster Posey, the team\u2019s president of baseball operations, has made it clear<\/a> that first-year manager Tony Vitello will return next season despite some recent rumblings about his job security.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, he\u2019s coming back. It\u2019s not a question,\u201d Posey told the media<\/a> earlier this week.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tCole Sullivan<\/a> Cole Sullivan is a sports journalist for Heavy.com covering the NFL, NBA, college football, and college basketball. A member of the United States Basketball Writers Association, he has written for FanSided, Athlon Sports, The Sporting News, and Newsweek. Sullivan earned an Associate degree from Franklin Pierce University and a Bachelor’s degree from Lynn University, where he studied Communications and Media Studies with a focus on Sports Journalism. More about Cole Sullivan<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 26: Willy Adames #2 of the San Francisco Giants spits sunflower seeds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-438176","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\/438176","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=438176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
R. Devers DH
W. Adames SS
B. Eldridge 1B
V. Bericoto LF
J. Lee RF
O. Basabe 2B
D. Cavanaugh C
C. Koss 3B<\/p>\n