{"id":2513690,"date":"2026-07-23T07:38:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T07:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2513690"},"modified":"2026-07-23T07:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T07:38:18","slug":"tony-vitello-ejected-in-san-francisco-giants-loss-to-kansas-city-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tony-vitello-ejected-in-san-francisco-giants-loss-to-kansas-city-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Vitello ejected in San Francisco Giants loss to Kansas City Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"videoWrap\" class=\"spacer-large videoWrap\" style=\"position:relative\"><media-video video-id=\"90991017007\" title=\"MLB trade deadline: Which teams will part with these star players?\" poster=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/07\/19\/USAT\/90977334007-20260719-t-034517-z-1471952226-mt-1-usatoday-29409608-rtrmadp-3-mlbdetroittigersatlosangelesangels.JPG?crop=4594,2584,x0,y0\" util-module-path=\"elements\/media\" placement=\"snow-video-story-priority\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"uwVideoPlaceholder\" slot=\"placeholder\" style=\"z-index:19;width:100%;padding-bottom:56.25%;position:relative\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"vidplaybtn\" style=\"display:-moz-box;display:-ms-flexbox;display:-webkit-flex;display:flex;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,.4);border:2px solid #fff;border-radius:80px;cursor:pointer;height:80px;width:80px;position:absolute;top:50%;left:50%;transform:translate(-50%,-50%);z-index:10\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div slot=\"videoDetails\" id=\"videoDetails\" class=\"videoDetails\" style=\"padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:8px\">\n<div id=\"videoDetailsContainer\" class=\"videoDetailsContainer\" hidden=\"\">\n<p>MLB trade deadline: Which teams will part with these star players?<\/p>\n<p>Bob Nightengale lists the players across several MLB teams who are piquing interest among teams interested in buying at the trade deadline.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/media-video><\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" data-autotag=\"0b0e199f-7ea3-4920-a9f1-2be8047f1198\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/san-francisco-giants\/250\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Giants<\/a> first-year manager Tony Vitello was ejected after arguing a call in the bottom of the 7th inning en route to a 5-4 loss against the <a target=\"_blank\" data-autotag=\"4e385f64-3a66-4395-b052-9f6495f4718b\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/kansas-city-royals\/231\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Royals<\/a> on Wednesday, July 22.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"600\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\" momentum=\"\"\/>\n<p>Vitello disagreed with umpire Mike Estabrook&#8217;s call at second base that ruled Vinnie Pasquantino safe, with Giants&#8217; shortstop Willy Adames believing he tagged him when he was off base.<\/p>\n<p>Estabrook lamented that Adames pushed Pasquantino off the bag, but Adames maintained his stance that he made a firm tag as Pasquantino was losing his balance. He stood ground that the play should have been reviewable, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/susanslusser\/status\/2080033893156049069?s=20\">according to the San Francisco Chronicle&#8217;s Susan Slusser<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Vitello was visibly upset at the call. Giants broadcasters and announcers on NBC Sports Bay Area said it was &#8220;one of the worst ones I&#8217;ve seen in a long time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<p>Vitello had a colorful exchange with the game&#8217;s official and then was booted from the contest. It was Vitello&#8217;s third ejection of the season and of his MLB managing career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">More: <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/giants\/2026\/07\/22\/luis-arraez-san-francisco-giants-latest-trade-rumors\/91005090007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Luis Arraez lineup absence fuels Giants rumors: What we know<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>San Francisco was up 3-0 at the time of the ejection. The delay in play sparked momentum for the Royals, who would put up five runs to end the inning starting with a two-run home run courtesy of Salvador Perez at the next at-bat.<\/p>\n<partner-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" placement=\"native-article_link\" sizes=\"[[300, 250], [3, 3]]\" min-height=\"250\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\"\/><cta-atoms-container-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/cta\" class=\"spacer-large\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It started a sequence that had the Royals ahead, 5-3, going into the 8th inning. Casey Schmitt got the Giants closer to striking distance in the 9th inning with a solo home run to left field but that would be the final run as San Francisco lost the game, 5-4.<\/p>\n<p>They were swept in the series against Kansas City, falling to a 42-60 record on the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">More: <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/giants\/2026\/07\/08\/san-francisco-giants-trade-deadline-approach\/90841396007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">What&#8217;s next for San Francisco Giants as MLB trade deadline approaches?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><media-gallery-promo asset-id=\"89429504007\" class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-large\"\/><lit-timestamp class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-small\" slot=\"timestamp\" publishdate=\"2026-07-22 21:30:05.503317954 +0000 UTC\" updatedate=\"2026-07-22 21:30:05.503317954 +0000 UTC\"\/><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usatoday.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MLB trade deadline: Which teams will part with these star players? Bob Nightengale lists the players across several MLB teams who are piquing interest among teams interested in buying at the trade deadline. San Francisco Giants first-year manager Tony Vitello was ejected after arguing a call in the bottom of the 7th inning en route [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2513691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[495928,452290,21849,22691,410518,427435,437965,22036,6297,370699,370700,410517,22304,43627,423081,423762,25866,22773,325433,74947,21738,386702,495999,239343,239420,265640,27155,340343,369784,319715,21848,42570,345185,102808,25958,423730,432325],"class_list":["post-2513690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-adames","tag-arraez","tag-baseball","tag-california","tag-california-gold-rush","tag-cgr","tag-cgr-sports","tag-city","tag-eamotion","tag-francisco","tag-giants","tag-gold","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-luis","tag-luis-arraez","tag-mlb","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-negative","tag-news","tag-nl","tag-nl-west","tag-overall","tag-overall-negative","tag-pasquantino","tag-royals","tag-rush","tag-san","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-vinnie","tag-vinnie-pasquantino","tag-west","tag-willy","tag-willy-adames"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Tony-Vitello-ejected-in-San-Francisco-Giants-loss-to-Kansas-scaled.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2513690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2513692,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513690\/revisions\/2513692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2513691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}