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By Ben Watanabe
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The San Francisco Giants are spiraling, and they don't need any strange calls to help flush themselves down the drain.
That's what they got Wednesday, though, when second base umpire Mike Estabrook made a bizarre call on a bang-bang play involving a tag attempt by shortstop Willy Adames on Kansas City Royals baserunner Vinnie Pasquantino.
It was difficult to tell whether Adames was able to hold the tag while Pasquantino's momentum carried him past the base momentarily, so Giants manager Tony Vitello might not have taken issue if Estabrook's call had merely been "safe." Rather than say Adames hadn't laid the tag, however, Estabrook apparently claimed Adames had pushed Pasquantino off the base.
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That's not how it looked, though, so Vitello's reaction was understandable.
Even so, Vitello didn't appear to fly off the handle. His ejection wasn't one of those classic Bobby Cox-style arguments. He appeared to have mostly given up when he muttered something on his way back to the dugout and apparently uttered some sort of magic words that earned him the hook.
The season is going nowhere fast for the Giants. Entering Friday, they had lost five straight, including two by walk off. Rafael Devers, Luis Arraez, Bryce Eldridge and others in the lineup are having decent years offensively, but their pitching staff outside Logan Webb has left much to be desired.
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