Giants reassign third base coach Hector Borg following latest baserunning blunder

Two days after the San Francisco Giants’ latest head-scratching baserunning decision, the team reassigned beleaguered third base coach Hector Borg.

>The Giants announced on Friday that special assistant Ron Wotus will fill Borg’s spot in the third-base coaching box on an interim basis. Borg will now occupy a position within the club’s player development staff.

>The Giants revealed the move ahead of a series opener against the Colorado Rockies, the start of San Francisco’s 10-game road trip.

What appears to have been the straw that broke the camel’s back was Borg’s call to send shortstop Willy Adames home during the eighth inning of a 3-2 defeat to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday.

>Borg waved Adames into an out at the plate, as the D-backs easily cut him down after fielding a one-out Luis Arraez single that dropped into left-center field. Ryan Waldschmidt provided backup, scooped the ball off one bounce and fired it to third baseman Jose Fernandez, who delivered a strike that allowed catcher Aramis Garcia enough time to apply the tag on a sliding Adames.

That sequence was harped on by Giants fans. To make matters worse for San Francisco, Arraez was then picked off second to end the inning. The 22-34 Giants wound up losing and suffering their second sweep to the D-backs in the past week and a half.

>Borg was the final coach first-year Giants manager Tony Vitello brought aboard this offseason, according to The Athletic. Borg climbed the minor-league coaching ranks and notably managed the Dominican Republic to a bronze medal in the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.

>As for Wotus, he’s already coached third base for the Giants this season. For four games last week, he stepped in for Borg while Borg was in the D.R. attending funeral services for his grandmother, per The Athletic.

>Before that, Wotus coached third under then-Giants manager Gabe Kapler, as recently as 2020-21.