Giants’ Harrison Bader sees scooter accident take a drastic turn as team suspends pay on $20.5M contract

San Francisco Giants outfielder Harrison Bader’s ill-fated late-night scooter thrust has not lone outgo him the remainder of the season, but his paychecks arsenic well.

Giants president of shot operations Buster Posey announced Friday that the squad is suspending Bader’s wage portion it investigates the circumstances of his accident.

"Over the weekend, Harrison Bader was progressive successful an mishap that has delayed Harrison's anterior attraction timeline for plantar fasciitis and, unfortunately, his instrumentality to the field," Posey said successful a connection that was released by the team, according to MLB.com.

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Harrison Bader of the San Francisco Giants is connected platform during an MLB crippled astatine Chase Field successful Phoenix, Arizona, connected May 19, 2026. The Diamondbacks defeated the Giants 5-3. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

"We are inactive investigating the circumstances of the mishap but volition beryllium suspending outgo to Harrison until helium is capable to resume performing services for the Club."

Bader, who signed a two-year, $20.5 cardinal declaration with the squad this past offseason, volition miss the remainder of the play owed to injury. He had already been retired since May 29 with plantar fasciitis successful his near foot, and the clang ensured helium volition miss the remainder of the 2026 campaign.

Bader’s clang occurred astir 2 a.m. Sunday, erstwhile his scooter crashed into the backmost of a San Francisco Fire Department truck, the instrumentality of which rolled implicit his foot, according to SFist’s report.

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Harrison Bader #9 of the San Francisco Giants prepares for a crippled against the Arizona Diamondbacks astatine Oracle Park successful San Francisco connected May 25, 2026. (Andy Kuno/San Francisco Giants/Getty Images)

The incidental Sunday is not Bader’s archetypal involving a scooter. While playing for Florida successful 2014, Bader drunkenly crashed a scooter into a parked motortruck and was suspended for 19 games.

Bader, known for his antiaircraft prowess successful halfway field, is successful his 10th play successful the large leagues. He spent astir the archetypal six seasons of his vocation with the St. Louis Cardinals earlier being traded to the New York Yankees.

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San Francisco Giants outfielder Harrison Bader heads to the dugout aft hitting a expansive slam against the Chicago White Sox connected May 23, 2026, astatine Oracle Park successful San Francisco. (Larry Placido/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

He has since bounced around, spending clip with the Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, Minnesota Twins, Philadelphia Phillies and the Giants implicit the past 3 seasons.

The Gold Glove victor has a vocation .244 batting mean with 93 location runs and 336 RBI. In 39 games with the Giants this season, helium deed conscionable .170 with 5 location runs.

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