{"id":249740,"date":"2026-06-24T01:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T01:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/giants-rafael-devers-breaks-silence-on-pinch-run-drama-against-marlins\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T01:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T01:17:09","slug":"giants-rafael-devers-breaks-silence-on-pinch-run-drama-against-marlins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/giants-rafael-devers-breaks-silence-on-pinch-run-drama-against-marlins\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants&#8217; Rafael Devers breaks silence on pinch-run drama against Marlins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/san_francisco_giants\/24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Giants<\/a> first baseman Rafael Devers claims media members and fans are overreacting to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/articles\/rafael_devers_pinch_run_fiasco_another_example_of_how_tony_vitello_experiment_is_failing_for_giants\/s1_13132_43981602\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pinch-run incident\u00a0<\/a>in a 2-1 loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/miami_marlins\/11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miami Marlins<\/a> on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the ninth inning of the contest, Devers initially refused to let rookie center fielder Jonah Cox pinch-run for him, waving his finger at the dugout and manager Tony Vitello. He then stomped off the field after exiting the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Devers expanded on the interaction during a Tuesday news conference before San Francisco&#8217;s home game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/athletics\/20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Athletics<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Rafael Devers speaks on pinch-run ordeal\u00a0<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It was a misunderstanding,&#8221; Devers said through a translator. &#8220;Two days prior to that, I told the manager that I had a problem with my hamstring, and I thought that was the reason he was taking me out of the game &#8230; it just got a little blown out of proportion.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Devers added he apologized to Vitello&#8217;s after Sunday&#8217;s game, &#8220;which was the right thing to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/articles\/giants_rafael_devers_breaks_silence_on_pinch_run_drama_against_marlins\/s1_13132_43987637\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco Giants first baseman Rafael Devers claims media members and fans are overreacting to his pinch-run incident\u00a0in a 2-1 loss to the Miami Marlins on Sunday.\u00a0 During the ninth inning of the contest, Devers initially refused to let rookie center fielder Jonah Cox pinch-run for him, waving his finger at the dugout and manager [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-249740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}