After light reprimand, SF Giants debut polite new outfield celebration

The SF Giants beat the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday night and cameras caught the postgame celebration from the outfielders. It quickly went viral so naturally all eyes were on them when they won again on Tuesday night.

During the game, Giants beat reporter Andrew Baggarly reported on social media that a message had been relayed to the outfielders that a repeat of that celebration would not be tolerated. So, Drew Gilbert, Heliot Ramos, and Jung Hoo Lee went the respectful route.

They delivered a nice, polite bow to the players on the infield. 

SF Giants outfielders tone things down after viral celebration

It’s a pretty funny reversal for a group that was decidedly not bowing the night before. Of course, Harrison Bader was also in the mix on Monday so when you get him and Gilbert together in the same outfield celebration you know things are going to go a bit haywire. 

Still, it makes sense that the Giants tried to prevent what happened on Monday night from becoming a regular occurrence. Manager Tony Vitello was asked about it and jokingly said they are a tight-knit group but also confirmed after Tuesday's game that he basically told them to knock it off. Whether that directive came from Buster Posey or Larry Baer or Greg Johnson or just Vitello alone they probably don’t want to be known for that sort of behavior even if it is pretty funny.

Posey probably didn’t have that celebration in mind when he talked wistfully about how the Giants are in the “memory making business” when he took over as president of baseball operations. Of course, this is the team that once had a rally thong play a role in a World Series run and had one of its outfielders appear in a Gimp costume during a Brian Wilson interview so this stuff is nothing new.

More important than an outfield celebration is the fact that the Giants have won two games in a row against the Dodgers and they look…like a competent baseball team? That’s a very welcome development for a team that has looked like it might lose 100 games this year at times.

While Gilbert and Bader seem like they were probably the instigators of Monday’s celebration, they played well enough to get away with it on Tuesday as Bader hit a home run and Gilbert dropped down a perfect safety squeeze to bring home another run.

Manager Tony Vitello deserves credit because on its face taking Bader out for Gilbert after Bader hit a home run seemed like a questionable move but it worked out to great effect. It will be interesting to see how both players are deployed going forward.

Vitello may just have to keep those two out of the outfield at the end of games even if they are probably the two best defensive outfielders on the team because parents may have to make their kids look away if the Giants win and they’re out there celebrating. 

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