A few hundred miles up the coast, president of baseball operations Buster Posey and his contingent of Giants executives hunkered down in their offices inside Oracle Park and continued to put in the work that should mean the next 24 hours won’t pass so stealthily with several moves expected. San Francisco made a move after the game, dealing right-handed pitcher Tyler Mahle to the Braves for right-handed pitcher Anthony Molina. Others in the industry kicked into high gear approaching MLB’s trade deadline — 3 p.m. PT Monday — with starting pitchers Tarik Skubal (to the Dodgers), Freddy Peralta (Rays) and Luis Castillo (White Sox) headlining those already on the move. The Giants, expected to be one of the league’s most active sellers, possess arguably the best lefty available besides Skubal in Robbie Ray, possibly the best hitter on the market in Luis Arraez and some othe…

Heliot Ramos, whose name has also surfaced in trade rumors despite being under team control for three more seasons, played all nine innings. Vitello, who doesn’t have the same kind of control over his personnel as he did running the program and everything that came with it at the University of Tennessee, went about his day, too. Although Posey and Co. “keep me in the loop,” he was more focused on the game in front of him. That didn’t lead to many satisfying responses to the text messages lighting up his iPhone. “Players I know from competing or recruiting or coaching text me. They think I have control over the trades,” Vitello said. “Our guys don’t have complete control over it [either].” Like everything else, the trade deadline is a new experience for Vitello. Comparing it to the college transfer portal, he said “that’s a lot more emotional, and it’s a lot more chaot…