The San Francisco Giants haven’t had much to celebrate in the first two months of the 2026 MLB season, so they’ve taken full advantage of the opportunities when they do.
The Giants ended a four-game losing streak with a 10-3 win over the visiting Chicago White Sox at Oracle Park in San Francisco on Saturday. Afterward, outfielders Harrison Bader, Drew Gilbert, and Casey Schmitt reenacted the famed 2013 “Key & Peele” skit, “McCringleberry’s Excessive Celebration.”
When The San Francisco Chronicle’s Shayna Rubin asked Bader who had the idea to do the McCringleberry celebration, Bader smiled and played it off, saying, “I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
The Giants are 21-31, the fourth-worst record in MLB, and have had four separate losing streaks of at least four games. The Giants’ strategy moving forward should just be for Bader to hit a grand slam every game. They win when he does that. Their most recent four-game skid was sandwiched between Bader grand slams.
Bader hit a grand slam during the Giants’ six-run bottom of the fifth against the White Sox on Saturday. He previously blasted a grand slam in the Giants’ 10-1 win over the Athletics on May 17.
According to MLB stats extraordinaire Sarah Langs, Bader became the 11th Giants player to hit two grand slams in one calendar month, dating back to 1894, including Schmitt in June 2025 and former MVP and three-time World Series champion Buster Posey in 2015.
Baseball fans outside of the Bay should root for more Giants victories if for no other reason than to see what celebrations they have waiting in the vault. San Francisco will close out their series with Chicago at Oracle Park on Sunday afternoon.
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