• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar

San Francisco Sports Today

San Francisco Sports News Continuously Updated

  • Baseball
    • A’s
    • Giants
  • Football
    • 49’ers
    • Raiders
  • Basketball
    • Kings
    • Warriers
  • Sharks
  • Earthquakes
  • Colleges
    • San Jose State
    • Stanford
    • University of California, Berkeley

Jeff Wilson Jr. injury status leads to fight before Reds-Giants baseball game

May 28, 2022 by Niners Wire

There was a brief skirmish before Friday night’s baseball game between the Cincinnati Reds and San Francisco Giants. It turns out the scuffle centered around a fantasy football dispute involving 49ers running back Jeff Wilson Jr.

New broke via the Athletic prior to the game that Reds outfielder Tommy Pham approached Giants outfielder Joc Pederson and slapped him over a fantasy football argument. The incident led to Pham being pulled from the Reds’ starting lineup.

Pederson after the game explained what happened.

“We were in a fantasy league together,” Pederson told reporters via NBC Sports Bay Area. “I put somebody – a player – on the injured reserve when they were listed as ‘out,’ and added another player. And then there was a text message in the group saying that I was cheating because I was stashing players on my bench. And then, I don’t know, I looked up the rules and sent a screenshot of the rules and how it says that when a player’s out you’re allowed to put him on the IR, and that’s all I was doing. And it just so happened he had a player, (49ers RB) Jeff Wilson who was ‘out,’ and he had him on the IR. So I said, ‘you literally have the same thing on your bench.’”

It turns out Pham was in two leagues and Wilson’s injury status was inconsistent between one league and the other one he was in with Pederson.

It’s unclear exactly what rule Pham thought Pederson was breaking, but the ensuing discussion about it in the group chat apparently didn’t satisfy Pham, so he physically struck Pederson now nearly four months after the NFL season ended.

Wilson landing in the center of injury controversy during the 2021 season isn’t a huge surprise. He started the year on the PUP list because of a torn meniscus he suffered early in the offseason program. He missed the first nine weeks of the year, and returned for the 49ers’ Week 10 bout against the Rams.

Given the injury woes in the 49ers’ backfield, Wilson was a popular player to stash on IR slots. He wound up seeing a limited role when Elijah Mitchell was healthy and carried just 79 times for 294 yards and two touchdowns in nine games. Wilson was only really fantasy relevant in Weeks 14 and 15 when he started vs. the Falcons and Titans and posted 155 rushing yards with two touchdowns in those contests.

To add insult to injury for San Francisco on Friday, the Reds pulled out a 5-1 victory. They avenged a 26-23 overtime loss their NFL counterparts in Cincinnati suffered to Wilson’s 49ers in Week 14 last season.

Like this article?

Sign up for the Niners Wire email newsletter to get our top stories in your inbox every morning

An error has occured

Please re-enter your email address.

Thanks for signing up!

You’ll now receive the top Niners Wire stories each day directly in your inbox.

Filed Under: 49'ers

Primary Sidebar

Recent Posts

  • What was the best 49ers’ win the last five years?
  • Can you guess this 49ers QB in today’s in-5 trivia game?
  • Mike Florio lists 49ers as one of five legitimate NFC Super Bowl contenders
  • Willy Adames has got your back
  • Kraken sign forward Tye Kartye to a two-year, $2.5 million contract extension

Categories

  • 49'ers
  • A's
  • Earthquakes
  • Giants
  • Kings
  • Raiders
  • San Jose State
  • Sharks
  • Stanford
  • Uncategorized
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • Warriers

Archives

  • July 2025
  • June 2025
  • May 2025
  • April 2025
  • March 2025
  • February 2025
  • January 2025
  • December 2024
  • November 2024
  • October 2024
  • September 2024
  • August 2024
  • July 2024
  • June 2024
  • May 2024
  • April 2024
  • March 2024
  • February 2024
  • January 2024
  • December 2023
  • November 2023
  • October 2023
  • September 2023
  • August 2023
  • July 2023
  • June 2023
  • May 2023
  • April 2023
  • March 2023
  • February 2023
  • January 2023
  • December 2022
  • November 2022
  • October 2022
  • September 2022
  • August 2022
  • July 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021

Our Partners

All Sports

  • San Francisco Chronicle
  • San Francisco Examiner
  • The Mercury News
  • 247 Sports
  • Bleacher Report
  • Forgotten 5
  • Golden Gate Sports
  • The Sports Fan Journal
  • The Spun
  • USA Today

Baseball

  • San Francisco Giants
  • Oakland A's
  • Last Word On Baseball - Oakland A's
  • Last Word On Baseball - San Francisco Giants
  • MLB Trade Rumors - A's
  • MLB Trade Rumors - Giants
  • White Cleat Beat
  • Around The Foghorn
  • Athletics Nation
  • McCovey Chronicles

Basketball

  • Golden State Warriors
  • Sacramento Kings
  • A Royal Pain
  • Amico Hoops - Kings
  • Amico Hoops - Warriors
  • Blue Man Hoop
  • Golden State Of Mind
  • Hoops Hype - Warriors
  • Hoops Hype - Kings
  • Hoops Rumors - Warriors
  • Hoops Rumors - Kings
  • Lets Go Warriors
  • Last Word On Pro Basketball - Golden State
  • Last Word On Pro Basketball - Sacramento
  • Pro Basketball Talk - Warriors
  • Pro Basketball Talk - Kings
  • Real GM - Warriors
  • Real GM - Kings
  • Sactown Royalty

Football

  • San Francisco 49ers
  • Las Vegas Raiders
  • 49ers Gab
  • Just Blog Baby
  • Last Word On Pro Football
  • NFL Trade Rumors - San Francisco 49ers
  • NFL Trade Rumors - Las Vegas Raiders
  • Niners Nation
  • Niner Noise
  • Niners Wire
  • Our Turf Football
  • Pro Football Rumors - 49ers
  • Pro Football Rumors - Raiders
  • Pro Football Talk - 49ers
  • Pro Football Talk - Raiders
  • Raiders Wire
  • Silver And Black Pride
  • Total 49ers

Hockey

  • Blades Of Teal
  • Fear The Fin
  • Last Word On Hockey
  • Pro Hockey Rumors
  • Pro Hockey Talk
  • The Hockey Writers

Soccer

  • Center Line Soccer
  • Last Word on Soccer
  • MLS Multiplex

College

  • Busting Brackets
  • California Golden Blogs
  • College Sports Madness
  • College Football News
  • Rule Of Tree
  • Saturday Blitz
  • The Daily Californian
  • The Stanford Daily
  • Zags Blog

Copyright © 2025 · Magazine Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in