{"id":660972,"date":"2026-04-03T15:21:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/660972\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T15:21:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:21:24","slug":"daniel-susacs-unreal-giants-debut-overtaken-by-viral-nephew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/660972\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Susac&#8217;s unreal Giants debut overtaken by viral nephew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Susac brought a cheering section to his first MLB start, but one member of his coterie had enough.<\/p>\n<p>As the 24-year-old catcher singled in the seventh inning for his third hit of the dreamy debut <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/03\/sports\/david-peterson-and-bats-both-flop-as-mets-fall-to-giants\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in a 7-2 win over the Mets<\/a>, his family went understandably bananas.<\/p>\n<p>Susac\u2019s nephew Chuck, held by the freshly minted MLBer\u2019s brother, Matt, was caught on camera seemingly not enjoying the boisterous bouncing and noisy confines at Oracle Park in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TalkinBaseball_\/status\/2039918132316299460?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">tot\u2019s tantrum<\/a> went viral.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re all saying in our family group chat right now we have to get that kid an agent,\u201d Susac\u2019s fiancee Drew Koltko <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/daniel-susac-has-3-hits-in-first-major-league-start\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">told MLB.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Koltko deserves some credit for Susac\u2019s stunning start, which included three singles, a four-pitch walk and an ABS challenge win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo nerve-wracking,\u201d Koltko told MLB.com. \u201cBut I told him from the first time that we got here, he\u2019s going to get a hit in his first at-bat. \u2026 He did that [the ABS challenge] in Triple-A all the time last year, so he was pretty familiar with it, but seeing it in a big league stadium is just surreal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An oracle at Oracle, if you will.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.48191027;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38981415\" width=\"874\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/daniel-susac-6-san-francisco-124923810.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Susac of the San Francisco Giants swings to hit a single against the New York Mets.\" class=\"wp-image-38981415\"  \/>Daniel Susac #6 of the San Francisco Giants hits a single against the New York Mets in the bottom of the second inning. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>With the outing, Susac joined his brother Andrew, who spent six seasons as Buster Posey\u2019s backup in San Francisco, as the MLB\u2019s sixth pair of siblings to each get hits in their first career at-bats, per Sarah Langs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI definitely always envisioned it as a little kid, but to actually live it out was awesome,\u201d Daniel said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI probably went through this exact scenario so many times in the backyard with my brothers, so it was a pretty fun one altogether.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.626401;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38981441\" width=\"370\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-03-at-9.36.05-AM.png\" alt=\"chuck susac uncle daniel first mlb game three hits celebration\" class=\"wp-image-38981441\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>That includes Chuck, who recovered by the end of the night, with Koltko posting video of him jumping on a couch as he watched his uncle do a postgame interview on NBC Sports Bay Area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor everyone wondering,\u201d she wrote. \u201cYes, Charles is okay!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Susac brought a cheering section to his first MLB start, but one member of his coterie had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,162,4,61,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342,185,4298,14780],"class_list":{"0":"post-660972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-giants","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york-mets","12":"tag-san-francisco","13":"tag-san-francisco-giants","14":"tag-sanfrancisco","15":"tag-sanfranciscogiants","16":"tag-sf","17":"tag-sf-giants","18":"tag-sfgiants","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-sports-entertainment","21":"tag-wags"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116341460788155910","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}