San Francisco Giants get apology for botched jersey lettering

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Longtime San Francisco Giants equipment manager Mike Murphy received an apologetic phone call from the team's uniform manufacturer for a misspelling on Eugenio Velez's gray road jersey.

It read "San Fran-cic-so" for the team's road series at Houston. A replacement was en route, Murphy said.

Murphy — with the club since it came West in 1958 — had no hard feelings, saying, "we all make mistakes." He didn't notice it at the time and neither did Velez, who made his season debut in the Giants' 10-4 win over the Astros on Wednesday.

The Giants' next road game is April 16 in Los Angeles against the Dodgers.

This was the second year in a row that a major league uniform spelled trouble.

Last April, Adam Dunn and Ryan Zimmerman of the Washington Nationals wore jerseys reading "Natinals" for three innings of a game. The company that made the uniforms apologized for the mistake.