{"id":169656,"date":"2026-03-27T01:35:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T01:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=169656"},"modified":"2026-03-27T01:35:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T01:35:47","slug":"tony-vitello-doesnt-hold-back-giants-manager-opens-up-brutally-on-logan-webbs-rough-season-debut-this-honest-admission-just-exposed-major-concerns-in-san-francisco-and-lef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=169656","title":{"rendered":"TONY VITELLO DOESN\u2019T HOLD BACK! Giants Manager Opens Up Brutally on Logan Webb\u2019s Rough Season Debut \u2014 This Honest Admission Just Exposed Major Concerns in San Francisco and Left Fans Wondering If the Ace Can Bounce Back in Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2268374948-e1774551456493.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2268374948-e1774551456493.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2268374948-e1774551456493.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2268374948-e1774551456493.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Giants Manager Tony Vitello Opens Up on Logan Webb's Rough Season Debut\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees spoiled Tony Vitello&#8217;s debut as San Francisco Giants manager.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Logan Webb hardly looked like himself in the San Francisco Giants\u2018 season opener Wednesday night. But rookie MLB manager Tony Vitello saw the New York Yankees take a unique tactic to unsettle the Giants ace.<\/p>\n<p>Vitello opened up about Webb\u2019s struggles and why he got touched up for six earned runs in just five innings in the Giants\u2019 7-0 loss to the Yankees on opening night at Oracle Park.<\/p>\n<p>Webb is coming off a huge year, where he won 15 games and led the majors in innings pitched (207). But he was roughed up by the Yankees\u2019 solid offense, surrendering nine hits and seven runs while striking out seven \u2014 including three fans to two-time-reigning AL MVP Aaron Judge.<\/p>\n<h2>The Yankees Picked on Logan Webb Early in Counts<\/h2>\n<p>Webb seemed hellbent on throwing strikes early in the count, and the Yankees ambushed him Wednesday. Webb only threw 21 pitches during Yankees\u2019 five-run second inning, which effectively put the game to bed, and allowed five straight Yankees to reach in a span of 10 pitches \u2014 he gave up hits on three straight pitches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was attacking, and they were attacking him,\u201d Vitello said of the Yankees. \u201cThey got to him early in the count a few times and seemed to make a little bit of an adjustment to be more aggressive, but overall he\u2019s a ground-ball pitcher and the ball got elevated a couple of times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Webb was hit hard, but did not allow a home run to largely the same lineup that led the majors in homers in 2025 (274). His lone extra-base hit against was a one-out triple to center fielder Trent Grisham that capped the second inning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not like those guys were launching balls over the outfielders\u2019 heads or over the fence, but they stacked their hits together,\u201d Vitello said. \u201cSome of those hits came from the bottom of the order too.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>The Yankees Also Spoiled Tony Vitello\u2019s MLB Debut<\/h2>\n<p>Aside from spoiling the Giants\u2019 home opener, the Yankees also spoiled Tony Vitello\u2019s first game as a big-league manager.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants made Vitello\u2019s the first person in major-league history to jump directly from college baseball to the majors this offseason. Vitello, of course, was hired after directing the University of Tennessee the past eight seasons and credited the atmosphere at Oracle Park ahead of opening night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fanfare before the game was tremendous,\u201d Vitello said. \u201cIt\u2019s tough to take all that in, because you\u2019re doing stuff up until the last minute, but all in all, I think the fans, in that part of the whole deal, got what they signed up for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But once the teams took the field, Vitello didn\u2019t like his club\u2019s performance in his debut.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe club would like a better result,\u201d Vitello said. \u201cThe results are going to fluctuate, but a more competitive effort would have been better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, with the fan fare and chaos of the season opener now in the rearview mirror, Vitello is excited to start again in Friday\u2019s second game against the Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s chaos once the game gets started,\u201d Vitello said. \u201cIt\u2019s good to have a rep of being in the dugout and having some of those conversations you have with coaches as the game\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pat Pickens is an experienced sports writer and media personality who has written for outlets like NHL.com, the Associated Press, the New York Times and USA Today. He covers the NFL, NBA, NHL and NBA as a breaking news contributor at Heavy. More about Pat Pickens<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty The Yankees spoiled Tony Vitello&#8217;s debut as San Francisco Giants manager. Logan Webb hardly looked like himself in the San Francisco Giants\u2018 season opener Wednesday night&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>TONY VITELLO DOESN\u2019T HOLD BACK! 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