New Giants manager Tony Vitello working to get his club on track after frustrating 3-7 start

by | Apr 7, 2026 | Sports

SAN FRANCISCO — Lately, Tony Vitello has been apologizing to his own family for how San Francisco is playing, and when they have a chance to go out for dinner everybody is used to his mind still being on baseball and little else.There’s been a lot of thinking to do given the new Giants manager’s frustrating 3-7 start in his jump from college coach to the major leagues.Vitello had a little extra time following Sunday afternoon’s game with a night contest the next day to ponder everything that went wrong in San Francisco’s third straight defeat, when he was ejected for the first time in his career for arguing in the seventh after Jerar Encarnación was ruled out for running inside the designated lane on his way to first base.Yes, he constantly dissects the various decisions he makes and is determined to figure this out.“At 3-7 and how yesterday went, I didn’t think yesterday was the proper time for me to go gallivanting around San Francisco, so, yeah, I was in my condo the whole night,” Vitello said. “Whether I’m there or sitting with family I apologize to them, ‘Find something better to watch if you’re watching this.’ We’re at dinner, I am thinking about this more than that. So, yeah, yesterday sitting at home you finish on a day game and you have a night game, you’ve got a lot of time to go over that stuff. You replay it all.” Before the start of a new series Monday against the Philadelphia Phillies, Vitello and Matt Chapman connected to discuss the third baseman getting caught stealing after his leadoff single in the ninth inning of a 5-2 loss to the Mets that gave New York a weekend sw …

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