Giants' Matt Chapman, Casey Schmitt on good terms after fiery remarks

Things are already getting fiery for San Francisco Giants’ brass, but cooler heads have prevailed, as expected. It’s sports, god forbid guys have a little competitive edge.

Cameras caught Giants third baseman Matt Chapman cursing out first baseman Casey Schmitt in their 7-1 loss against the San Diego Padres on April 1.

Schmitt, who is a natural third baseman, missed a ball thrown from Chapman off his glove, causing an error in the bottom of the fifth inning as San Francisco trailed 1-0. It was the second instance of the game.

Chapman appeared to have yelled at Schmitt after one of the game’s errors.

Schmitt missed a couple of catches, which turned into unearned runs. Chapman particularly had it after bases were loaded with two outs in the fifth as Xander Bogaerts took the plate for the Padres. Prior to the error, it would have been a Bogaerts single out and on to the next inning, but instead Bogaerts was safe at first as Gavin Sheets ran in a score.

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Chapman says ‘it’s baseball’

However, bygones are bygones. The two chopped it up and it’s on to the next game.

“We weren’t able to get the job done and it cost us some runs unfortunately,” Chapman told reporters after the game. “It’s just frustrating. You want to make the play and want to get outs and it sucks when we’re not able to get outs and they cost us and ultimately, we lose the game, so just frustrating.”

As far as the play that caused the viral moment, Chapman said: “It’s baseball, it happens.”

“First base isn’t something he plays every single day and we’re all trying to get out. We’re all working hard here, so it happens,” Chapman said. “We’re all brothers here. Heat of the moment. I’ve already talked to Casey. It’s all good. Figured that people would try to make that a big deal but it’s baseball, stuff happens. We all learn from it, we’ll move on. I already told him that it’s kind of heat of the moment. I was just wanting to get those outs. It happens.”

The Giants won their three-game series against the Padres 2-1, with the April 1 game being their loss.

“We come out here and take the first two games of the series against a good team and we’re able to score a lot of runs,” Chapman said. “Unfortunately, came back today and wasn’t able to get the job done, but to come here and win a series, we’re headed in the right direction. That’s what we came to do, come here and win the series.”

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