{"id":469757,"date":"2026-09-20T05:58:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T05:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/469757\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T05:58:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T05:58:24","slug":"sf-giants-bryce-eldridge-still-out-of-lineup-with-head-laceration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/469757\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Giants’ Bryce Eldridge still out of lineup with head laceration"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES \u2014 Rookie first baseman<\/a> Bryce Eldridge<\/a> was absent from the Giants\u2019 starting lineup for a second straight day after bumping his head at the team\u2019s hotel and sustaining a head laceration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Eldridge, 21, was originally in Friday\u2019s lineup before being scratched.\u00a0Manager Tony Vitello said after Friday\u2019s 8-2 loss to the Dodgers<\/a> that he expected Eldridge to play on Saturday. Before Saturday\u2019s game, Vitello said that Eldridge was \u201cstill feeling it a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Tarik Skubal, the reigning back-to-back American League Cy Young Award winner, on the mound, Vitello said playing Eldridge didn\u2019t really make sense.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou always run into that risk-reward thing, and with guys that are banged up, there\u2019s a few of them that if it was a playoff game tomorrow, they\u2019d probably be going. But a few others not. So, for Bryce, I think it\u2019s more let\u2019s get past this and see how many games we have left. For him, it\u2019d be unreasonable to play today. We\u2019ll see what tomorrow looks like,\u201d Vitello said.<\/p>\n

Vitello added that the Giants have discussed placing Eldridge in the concussion protocol, but the team has not made a decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust kind of woozy, to be honest, to put it into my terms,\u201d Vitello said.<\/p>\n

Eldridge has been one of the Giants\u2019 few bright spots this season, hitting .269 with 17 home runs, 23 doubles and 57 RBIs over 107 games. He\u2019s one of three Giants in team history with at least 17 homers as a rookie who\u2019s 21 or younger, the others being Willie Mays (20, 1951) and Orlando Cepeda (25, 1958).<\/p>\n

Worth noting<\/p>\n

Left-handed reliever Reiver Sanmart\u00edn was placed on the 15-day injured list with a right oblique strain, ending his season. Fellow lefty reliever Sam Hentges was reinstated from the injured list.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomething kind of came up on him on his right side in St. Louis,\u201d Vitello said. \u201cNot throwing, kind of a little discomfort. \u2026 Yesterday, when he was warming up, he felt it kind of along that theme. [Bullpen coach] Jesse [Chavez] kind of called it out right away. This isn\u2019t anything we\u2019re going to push.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sanmart\u00edn, 30, finishes his first season in San Francisco with a 4.22 ERA over 21 1\/3 innings with 16 strikeouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 Rookie first baseman Bryce Eldridge was absent from the Giants\u2019 starting lineup for a second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[2135,184,7,23726,402,181,1334,395,101,396,4820,103,102,104,106,105,127],"class_list":["post-469757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-baseball","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-giants-hq","tag-inside-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-mlb","tag-peninsula","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-county","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469757","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=469757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}