Ask the Giants: What was your most embarrassing moment?
We've (almost) all been there: calling someone the wrong name or the teacher "Mommy," taking a tumble in front of a bunch of co-workers, wearing a shirt inside out or a sweater backward, saying the wrong thing when it's suddenly totally quiet.
The San Francisco Giants players and staff, too, have had their do-over moments. Well, almost all of them. This week's question: What's your most embarrassing moment?
Manager Tony Vitello: "I've had so many, I'll tell you what, one gaffe was after I got thrown out of a game in Texas, and there was nowhere for me to go, so I basically watched beyond the left-field wall. And as it got close, we were about to win this highly competitive game, it was 1-1, the series was on the line, and the team rushed the field to celebrate. I wanted to join in and I was sprinting and I got to the bullpen and tried to jump over the wall, and my knees did not clear the wall, so I went face first.
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"Definitely some Texas fans went quickly from being upset about the loss to me making their day and even some of our players that were in the bullpen saw it. But the bottom line is eventually I got out there and celebrated. That's one I don't mind sharing, because it has a happy ending."
Reliever Ryan Walker: "I was playing AAU basketball, so probably about 12, and our team scored, but I, for some reason, thought it was the other team. So I grabbed the ball and went to go pass it in and all my team was running down the court, and I was screaming at them like, ‘What are you doing? Come on, come back!' And then I realized we'd just scored, so I had to do just the most embarrassing little jog down the court. That was extremely embarrassing."
Starter Logan Webb: "I had an at-bat against Yu Darvish where he threw me nothing but curveballs and the last one I took a swing (mimics extremely awkward whiff) and it was not good. I looked so bad."
What Webb didn't mention is that if you google "Webb, Darvish at-bat," what comes up is a 2021 clip (from that same season) of Webb striking out Darvish looking at a nasty slider to end the inning.
Reliever Matt Gage: "Probably breaking chairs when I sat in them when I was in high school, because they had those aluminum legs and I'd sit down and they'd snap. I was the same size I am now, 6-4, 240. I'd sit down and all of a sudden the leg would fly out and I'd be on the ground and everyone was laughing. It happened a bunch."
Third baseman Matt Chapman: "I missed a flyball in the sun and it hit me in the face, in the major leagues, and the guy got a double in 2018, against the Angels. It was pretty embarrassing."
Outfielder Harrison Bader: "I don't really get embarrassed too often. That's an emotion we need to explore. I welcome it, I don't really ever feel embarrassed. Honestly, nothing really stands out."
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