Giants Coach Accuses Padres’ Mike Shildt Of Racism During Tuesday’s Game

Former St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Shildt has found himself in the Padres dugout. And on Tuesday, the baseball lifer found himself at the center of controversy.

During the game, Giants first base coach Antoan Richardson was ejected. But in his words, it was largely due to a comment Shildt made to him from the Padres dugout.

“[Shildt] yelled, ‘You need to control that motherf—er,’” Richardson told reporters, via ESPN. “At that point in time, I went to the top step and said, ‘Excuse me?’ because I couldn’t believe what I heard. At that point in time, Gibson, the crew chief, decided to toss me from the game.

Richardson felt Mike Shildt’s comments had large ‘undertones of racism’ rooted in them.

“I say this because his words were disproportionately unwarranted and reeked undertones of racism when he referred to me as ‘that motherf—er,’ as if I was to be controlled or a piece of property or enslaved. I think it’s just really important we understand what happened tonight. And the second part that’s equally disappointing is that me being tossed by that umpire empowers this coach to continue to have conversations like that with people like me, and that’s really unfortunate that’s what happened tonight.”

“…as if I to be controlled or a piece of property or enslaved, and I think it's really important that we understand what happened tonight.”

— Andrew Baggarly (@extrabaggs) April 13, 2022

Giants manager Gabe Kapler said he couldn’t hear Mike Shildt’s comments from all the way across the field, but he trusts Antoan Richardson’s account of how things went down.

“I trust Antoan’s judgment 100 percent,” Kapler said. “I trust Antoan’s judgment on the matter, and I know that Antoan was not out of control at all and that anything that was said to insinuate that he was is totally inappropriate. He didn’t instigate any part of this.”

The Giants and Padres will be back in action this afternoon. And hopefully Mike Shildt will have to answer to these comments made Tuesday night.

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