Giants' Tony Vitello makes wrong kind of history with 0-3 start to season

The San Francisco Giants were one of two teams to open the regular season, facing off against the New York Yankees on Opening Night. Although they lost 7-0, they could put that behind them and try again on Friday when games return to normal.

However, that's not how the first series of the year went for Tony Vitello and the Giants. They were blown out 3-0 in Game 2 of the year, and in Game 3, they finally scored a run, avoiding a total nightmare start to 2026, but still lost 3-1.

This start to 2026, as @jayhaykid on Twitter/x shared, this start to 2026 is a history-making one for all of the wrong reasons for the Giants. On paper, it's a bad start to Vitello's tenure. But this statistic makes it even worse.

Tony Vitello joins brutal MLB history with 0-3 start

"The Giants are the 2nd team in MLB history to lose their first 3 games of the season, all at home, while scoring no more than 1 run, joining the 2016 Padres," @jayhaykid shared.

Vitello's Giants are starting the season 0-3, scoring just one run in their homestand to open the season. Across 27 innings, the Giants scored one run, are hitting .143, and have an ERA of 4.0.

It's too early to panic, as it's only the third game of the season of a 162-game-long gauntlet. But this start is about as bad as it has gotten in MLB history.

The 2016 Padres, which is the only other team to have such a brutal start to their season, finished last in the NL West with a 68-94 record 10 years ago.

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Fortunately for the Giants, their beginning of the season was not nearly as awful as that Padres' team's start to the year. The Giants have scored one run, compared to allowing 13 runs to score against the Yankees.

Comparatively, the Padres got swept by their division rival, the Los Angeles Dodgers, not scoring a single run and losing by a combined total of 25 runs.

At least this embarrassing start to 2026 for the Giants didn't feature a complete shutout, nor was it against an NL West rival. It was a bad start to the year, and one that made some MLB history, but it wasn't as bad as it's ever gotten before.

Vitello and the Giants desperately need a win, and they'll get their next chance on the road against the Padres for three games before a seven-game homestand against the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies in early April.

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