Tony Vitello rues missed insurance run opportunities in Giants' loss to Phillies
Giants manager Tony Vitello speaks with the media after San Francisco's 3-2 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday at Citizen's Bank Park.
Tony Vitello rues missed insurance run opportunities in Giants' loss to Phillies originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
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Tony, your bullpen has obviously been so good, such a strength, and, and Walker's been right there with, with them.
What'd you see from him today?
Yeah, I mean, you certainly would rather give up a hit than a walk to start off the inning.
But ideally, you know, you get through that thing with e- e- even two hits might get you a round holding a one-run lead.
But, those guys battled, even the strikeout to Marsh, the at-bats were competitive, and, they did what they needed to do to win and, you know, he obviously could've done better, but, has done so in the past, as you mentioned.
Any thoughts on Logan's day?
it was phenomenal.
kinda battled through a couple things, in particular, but nonetheless, when he's out there, gutted through, you know, what was an outstanding, outstanding effort and something everyone's typically used to watching him pitch, and he kinda set the tone for the day that, you know, confident vibe in the dugout all the way up until obviously the end of the game.
So he was outstanding.
You guys had the two hits and three runs off Sanchez in the first inning.
I think it was only a couple from there after s- when, when we changed after the first inning offensively.
Yeah, I, I mean, the vibes were good before the game, and that bled into, you know, the beginning of the game and some good swings, and had a chance for, you know, with their lineup, it's, the game's never gonna be over, but a little bit of a killing blow.
didn't have that, and then, you know, after, some of it was walks and, and some scattered hits.
There wasn't a ton of hits, but, we had guys in position.
We just weren't ever again, at that point with a tight game, like I said, I, I don't know that killing blow is the, is the right phrase, but at that point, insurance runs would've been, would've been beneficial.
You mentioned Logan was battling through some things.
Anything in particular?
just, just, you know, fielding his position and, you know, running around.
so he, he did, he did an outstanding job in a lot of different ways.
Was Miller okay with Yeah, that was a little bit of a, you know, little bit of a timeout/just be sure he was good.
you know, in that case, late in the, late in the game, and same as Webby did on a few plays, I mean, you got a chance to, you know, keep a guy off base.
You might have to do it PFP-wise, so just making sure he was good.
But he's, he's all good.
Yeah.
and- Talk to the starter?
Houser.
Arraez looked like he was kind of shaking his wrist of the, the same hand where, he got kicked.
Like- Yeah.
But I, but I also think that's a little bit of a habit he does sometimes, too.
So it, it could be one thing or the other.
But it's also something I've seen him do, even in the WBC, I've seen him kind of do that sometimes.
so there, there may be a connection to that, but, I've also kind of seen him do a bunch of stuff, and have been, have even heard him say a couple times, "Don't pay too close attention to what I do."
he's, he's obviously got a very unique presence in the box.
