Tony Vitello debuted as a Major League Baseball manager with San Francisco on Wednesday. The Yankees (1-0) defeated San Francisco (0-1), 7-0, at Oracle Park in San Francisco, California.
“This is a half-painful, half-easy press conference to do because it was pretty straight up,” Vitello said after the game. “Whichever phase you pick out, we just weren’t as good as we’re capable of being tonight, and they played well, so it worked out the way that it did.”
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New York and the Giants will continue a three-game series on Friday. First pitch is slated for 4:35 p.m. EDT. A series finale will be contested Saturday (7:15 p.m. EDT).
Vitello served as the Vols’ head coach from 2018-25.
He won a 2024 national championship, two SEC Tournament titles (2022, 2024), two SEC regular season championships (2022, 2024) and appeared in the College World Series three times (2021, 2023-24).
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