Manager Tony Vitello of the San Francisco Giants takes the ball from pitcher Keaton Winn taking Winn out of the game against the Washington Nationals in the top of the ninth inning at Oracle Park on June 8, 2026 in San Francisco.

Former San Francisco Giants pitcher Shawn Estes could barely hide his disgust on the NBC Sports Bay Area postgame show after the Giants blew another game, with most of his ire focused on manager Tony Vitello.

The Giants had gotten eight innings of stellar pitching from Logan Webb and took the lead in the bottom of the eighth with two runs, including one on back-to-back bunts. But Vitello’s decision to go to Keaton Winn for a third game in a row backfired, as Winn allowed three runs and Washington held on for the 4-3 win. For a Giants team trying to win their fifth game out of the last six and start digging out of the deep hole they’ve been in, losing this game in an incredibly predictable way — a blown save from a pitcher in their incredibly shaky bullpen —simply feels cataclysmic. 

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