Despite Tony Vitellos insistence, no reset coming for abysmal SF Giants season

SAN FRANCISCO — In the eyes of Tony Vitello, it’s a shame the All-Star break is so late. In his past life as a college coach, his season would be long over by now.His new reality as the manager of one of professional baseball’s most disappointing teams, however, means he’s barely past the halfway point — and yet there’s still probably not enough time left to correct course.“With the way the first half has gone, it’d be great if the All-Star break actually split the season in half,” the first-year San Francisco Giants manager said.

“You might as well divide the season into halves and make sure we have a positive second half.Where that leaves us when you combine the two, you don’t have much control over it.

But what’s in the past is in the past.”That was the gist of the message the manager tried to get across when he called a team meeting over the weekend at Coors Field, where they emerged 15 games below .500 (37-52).Ostensibly, it served the purpose of announcing the team’s two All-Stars — Logan Webb and Luis Arraez — but Vitello hoped to use the opportunity for something more.“He said something good the other day,” Webb said.“I think we were at the midway point and to try to sort of pretend like the first half didn’t happen, which obviously you can’t.

But try to. “Pretend you’re restarting the season a little bit.You’ve just got to put your head down and work and hope things will turn around.”It seemed to resonate, at least initially.

The Giants responded by playing one of their cleanest and most complete games of the season later that evening, albeit against the lowly Rockies.But when you’re stuck in the mud, taking that second step isn’t any easier.“I think the entire first half, we’ve kind of been looking around, like trying to place our finger on, OK, how’s our offense doing well, how is the pitching doing well, and we can’t seem to put together wins?” catcher Eric Haase told the Post.“I th...