Anne Hathaway is currently soaring on the success of the eagerly-awaited sequel, The Devil Wears Prada 2.

However, Hathaway’s journey over the two decades since the original film’s release has been anything but smooth sailing.

In the early 2010s, Hathaway faced an intense wave of online criticism so severe it was dubbed ‘Hatha-hate.’ This backlash led to the loss of film opportunities and took a toll on her mental well-being.

The Hollywood actress became a frequent target of harsh trolling, labeled as ‘fake’ and ‘theatrical,’ and was even named The Most Annoying Celebrity of 2013 by a poll conducted by The San Francisco Chronicle.

Not even her Oscar win for Les Miserables in that same year could shield her from criticism. Her acceptance speech’s opening line, “it came true,” went viral with viewers deriding it as ‘pretentious.’

So what sparked the ‘Hatha-hate’ train? 

She’s currently riding high on the success of The Devil Wears Prada 2. Yet, in the early 2010s Anne suffered from a wave of online hate so vitriolic that it spawned the name ‘Hatha-hate’

Even her Oscar win for Les Miserables in 2013 couldn’t save her, with the opening line of her acceptance speech – ‘it came true’ – going viral after viewers branded her ‘pretentious’

While no one can pinpoint the exact moment Anne went from respected actress to national hate figure, the tide seemed to turn around the time of her universally-panned Oscars hosting gig in 2011. 

The actress co-presented the event with James Franco, and the pair were called out for their lack of chemistry and extreme difference in energy levels. 

James was quick to throw Anne under the bus, saying on the Late Show with David Letterman: ‘Anne Hathaway is so energetic, I think the Tasmanian Devil would look stoned standing next to Anne Hathaway.’ 

For her part, Anne called the gig a ‘no-win situation’, noting ‘it’s a really hard gig to stick the landing on’. 

She added that James ‘didn’t give [her] anything’ to work with in the back-and-forth performance. 

That same year, Anne felt the wrath of DC Comics fans when she was cast as Catwoman in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, because they didn’t think she was ‘sexy’ enough.

As criticism mounted, soon every role and every speech Anne made came under intense scrutiny, with online attacks also beginning to target her physical appearance. 

Her Oscar co-host James and Howard Stern dissected the drama on SiriusXM, with Howard musing: ‘Everyone sort of hates Anne Hathaway…’

He went on to speculate that it was because she comes off as ‘so affected and actressy’.

James didn’t defend his former co-host, instead saying: ‘I’m not an expert on – I guess they’re called Hathahaters – but I think that’s what maybe triggers it.’

By 2013, the hate reached fever point when she scooped Best Actress at the Academy Awards, with her acceptance speech ridiculed online. 

Anne later said that amid the barrage of hate she was miserable on Oscars night, explaining: ‘I had to stand up in front of people and feel something I don’t feel, which is uncomplicated happiness.

‘It’s an obvious thing, you win an Oscar and you’re supposed to be happy. I didn’t feel that way. I felt wrong that I was standing there in a gown that cost more than some people are going to see in their lifetime, and winning an award for portraying pain that still felt very much a part of our collective experience as human beings. 

‘I tried to pretend that I was happy and I got called out on it, big time. That’s the truth and that’s what happened. It sucks. But what you learn from it is that you only feel like you can die from embarrassment, you don’t actually die.’

The hate began around the time of her universally-panned Oscars hosting gig in 2011 with James Franco, when the pair were called out for their lack of chemistry 

She soon found a saviour in the form of Christopher Nolan, who made her the lead in Interstellar when other jobs began to dry up (pictured with Matthew McConaughey)

That same year, The New York Times published an article titled Do We Really Hate Anne Hathaway? in which psychologists attempted to unpick the level of public hatred. 

Pier Massimo Forni, a founder of the Civility Initiative at Johns Hopkins University, which focuses on manners and social behaviour, suggested that it was the lure of a ‘pile on’.   

He explained: ‘The sensation of belonging to a group of like-minded people activates the pleasure centers of the brain. 

‘So at a certain point, something like what has happened to Ms. Hathaway acquired momentum, and people were willing and eager to be part of that momentum.

‘The psychological dynamics at work are, at least in part, the ones at work in cyberbullying.’

Jack Goncalo, an associate professor of organisational behavior at Cornell University, added that mob mentality could be to blame, explaining: ‘If the majority has done my thinking for me, I can move on to something else. People don’t want to think.’

Amid the backlash, Anne stepped away from the public eye, later telling the Huffington Post: ‘My impression is that people needed a break from me.’

Yet she soon found a saviour in the form of director Nolan, who was willing to cast her in a role when other jobs began to dry up, making her the lead in his 2014 blockbuster Interstellar. 

Reflecting on the Hatha-hate train, Anne told Vanity Fair in 2024: ‘A lot of people wouldn’t give me roles because they were so concerned about how toxic my identity had become online. 

‘I had an angel in Christopher Nolan, who did not care about that and gave me one of the most beautiful roles I’ve had in one of the best films that I’ve been a part of. 

‘I don’t know if he knew that he was backing me at the time, but it had that effect. And my career did not lose momentum the way it could have if he hadn’t backed me.’

Indeed, Anne went on to land roles in Ocean’s 8, Hustle, and WeCrashed, with self-proclaimed ‘Hatha-haters’ soon becoming condemned by fellow social media users. 

Yet the damage was lasting for Anne, who said during a Women in Hollywood speech in 2022: ‘This was a language I had employed with myself since I was seven

‘And when your self-inflicted pain is suddenly somehow amplified back at you at, say, the full volume of the internet…. It’s a thing.’ 

She added to Vanity Fair: ‘Humiliation is such a rough thing to go through. The key is to not let it close you down. You have to stay bold, and it can be hard because you’re like, “If I stay safe, if I hug the middle, if I don’t draw too much attention to myself, it won’t hurt.” 

‘But if you want to do that, don’t be an actor. You’re a tightrope walker. You’re a daredevil. You’re asking people to invest their time and their money and their attention and their care into you. 

‘So you have to give them something worth all of those things. And if it’s not costing you anything, what are you really offering?’

Now, Anne has officially been embraced by the Hollywood fold and is currently receiving rave reviews for her role in The Devil Wears Prada 2 (pictured with Meryl Streep) 

Yet she isn’t entirely untouchable, with fans recently calling her out for posing alongside the current public hate figure – Blake Lively – when they attended the Met Gala on Monday 

Now, Anne has officially been embraced by the Hollywood fold and is currently receiving rave reviews for her role in The Devil Wears Prada 2. 

She also has four more films in production, including Nolan’s hotly-anticipated next project The Odyssey and the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestseller Verity. 

Yet she isn’t entirely untouchable, with fans recently calling her out for posing alongside the current public hate figure – Blake Lively. 

The pair made an appearance at the Met Gala on Monday evening, hours after Blake settled her explosive legal battle with her It Ends With Us co-star and director Justin Baldoni. 

A photo of the duo posing together quickly went viral on X/Twitter, with fans commenting: ‘Get away from her Anne! She’ll sue you’; ‘Gross. Thought Anne was working on making the public like her again?’

Attorneys representing Cole Allen, the suspect in the alleged assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on April 25, have criticized U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro. They are calling for her recusal from the case, arguing that her involvement presents a conflict of interest.

The legal team has submitted a nine-page motion seeking Pirro’s disqualification, along with that of Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and other unnamed officials within the Department of Justice. They argue that the entire U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia should step aside from the prosecution due to these alleged conflicts.

Cole Allen, a 31-year-old from Torrance, California, is accused of attempting to breach the security at the Washington Hilton during the dinner event. He was reportedly armed with a rifle, handgun, knives, and a significant amount of ammunition. Surveillance footage purportedly shows Allen running towards a security checkpoint with a 12-gauge shotgun, firing the weapon once before falling to the ground.

According to the prosecutors, Allen’s discharged buckshot struck a Secret Service agent’s ballistic vest, causing minor injuries. In response, a Secret Service agent fired five shots at Allen but did not hit him.

Cole Allen is seen armed in a hotel room. (Department of Justice)

Both Pirro and Blanche were inside the ballroom during the incident, which federal public defenders used as partial justification to say they are conflicted in the case. They also cited Pirro’s personal friendship with Trump.

Allen’s attorneys also cited Pirro’s media appearances and social media posts after the alleged attack as a reason for disqualification, including an X post from earlier this week.

A sketch shows Cole Allen standing in court before Magistrate Judge Dana Verkouteren on May 4, 2026. (Dana Verkouteren)

Amid controversy over Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui apologizing to Allen for his jail conditions, Pirro posted on the social media platform that Allen was receiving preferential treatment.

“Welcome to Washington, DC, where U.S. Magistrate Judge Faruqui believes a defendant armed to the teeth and attempting to assassinate the president is entitled to preferential treatment in his confinement compared to every other defendant,” she said.

Allen’s lawyers pounced on that post, declaring that it was an “emotional response… was inflammatory, inappropriate and inaccurate…”

Cole Allen allegedly ran past Secret Service agents in an attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump. (US Attorney Pirro)

The motion also argues that even if Pirro, Blanche and other unnamed officials do not have a conflict of interest, there is an appearance of a conflict of interest. Allen’s attorneys say that by law, the appearance itself is enough to have them disqualified.

“As this case proceeds closer to trial, the country and the world will continue to wonder—how can the American justice system permit a victim to prosecute a criminal defendant in a case involving them?” the motion asks. “Or even—how can one of the victim’s closest friends prosecute the alleged perpetrator of the offense? Given U.S. Attorney Pirro’s friendship with the President and her and Acting A.G. Blanche’s attendance at the event at the center of this prosecution, the law necessitates their disqualification.”

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro speaks during a news conference on March 13, 2026. (Pool/Fox News)

“For these reasons, and any other such reasons as the Court may determine at a hearing on this motion, Mr. Allen respectfully requests the Court exercise its inherent authority and disqualify purported victims and witnesses in this case—to include U.S. Attorney Pirro and Acting A.G. Blanche—from direct involvement in the investigation and prosecution of Mr. Allen,” the motion concluded.

Pirro responded in a Friday morning statement to Fox News Digital. 

“We will evaluate the motion and respond in court,” she said. “We will not tolerate people who come to the District of Columbia to engage in antidemocratic acts of political violence; and we will prosecute all such acts to the fullest extent of the law.”

Allen is scheduled to be arraigned Monday morning, May 11.

Fox News Digital reached out to the DOJ and Allen’s attorneys.

Lesley Vogel, the mother of actress Hayden Panettiere, is raising eyebrows over the timing of her daughter’s revelation about her bisexuality, coinciding with the release of her memoir, “This is Me: A Reckoning.”

In a conversation with the Daily Mail, published on Friday, Vogel expressed skepticism about the timing, saying, “I never thought this was a secret, but there hasn’t been any historical evidence to suggest it was true.”

She added, “The timing of her coming out is certainly intriguing.”

Earlier this week, Panettiere discussed her challenging relationship with her mother in an interview with Us Weekly, where she also publicly addressed her sexuality for the first time.

“Unfortunately, we’re not in contact at the moment. However, that doesn’t mean I’ve closed the door on the possibility of reconciliation. It’s difficult to admit, but I’ve decided to be completely truthful,” she revealed to the publication.

A rep for the actress did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.

While discussing her sexuality (which she explores in her memoir), the “Bring it On” star admitted she never felt it was “the right time” to share her truth publicly, but she quipped it’s “better late than never.”

“It was either I was too young, and I was being forced to be perfect at all times. I was not encouraged to just be myself,” she explained.

“Then came the period where it felt like people coming out, especially women, saying that they were bisexual or liked girls, was a fad. I was afraid that if I was honest, it was going to be like me jumping on the bandwagon. It was a very difficult topic to articulate properly. It’s sad I had to wait until I was 36 years old to share that part of me.”

As for if she’s ever dated a woman, Panettiere revealed that she has — but, she has yet to fall in love with a woman.

“It was scary, though, because there were paparazzi always waiting for me outside to follow me everywhere,” she recalled, noting that she was “much more into women even as a child than … men.”

The Golden Globe nominee continued, “I have explored it, but because I hadn’t shared this with anybody, I didn’t really have the courage to throw myself fully emotionally into it. Because then if I did fall in love, that wasn’t something that I wanted to ever have to hide.”

“This Is Me: A Reckoning” memoir will be released May 19.

WASHINGTON — The transformation of the U.S. political landscape gained momentum this week, driven by pivotal decisions in both courts and legislative bodies. These developments are largely anticipated to bolster the Republican Party’s efforts to maintain its congressional majority in the upcoming November elections.

This week’s key events unfolded predominantly in Southern states, highlighted by a crucial state court verdict in Virginia and ongoing repercussions from a U.S. Supreme Court ruling issued last month.

Here is an update on the current situation:

Virginia court undoes new map drawn to help Democrats

On Friday, the Virginia Supreme Court delivered a narrow 4-3 ruling, rejecting a Democratic-led congressional redistricting plan that had been ratified by voters in April.

This redistricting strategy was designed to favor Democrats, potentially securing them 10 out of the 11 congressional seats in Virginia, an increase from the six seats they presently hold. The redistricting initiative was part of a broader strategy by both major political parties to reshape electoral boundaries to their benefit ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

The court majority cited procedural reasons for rejecting the amendment to the state constitution that paved the way for new maps. To send a constitutional amendment to voters, lawmakers are supposed to approve the measure twice – once before and once after a legislative election. The court found that they didn’t comply because the initial approval came in October after early voting had begun for the general election.

The result is that the state’s previous maps will remain in place for this year’s elections.

Fallout from US Supreme Court ruling leads to quick redistricting

Multiple GOP-controlled Southern states pushed this week to redraw their congressional maps in the aftermath of an April 29 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down a Louisiana congressional district drawn to have a Black majority of constituents.

The ruling was seen as a blow to a provision of the Voting Rights Act that requires political maps to include districts where minority populations’ preferred candidates can win elections.

Louisiana quickly suspended primaries scheduled for May 16 so lawmakers could create new districts. Voting rights activists there packed the statehouse to oppose proposals for new maps that could eliminate at least one of the two current majority-Black districts.

Republicans in Alabama enacted a law Friday that would ignore the results of its May 19 congressional primaries and instead hold a new election – if a federal court agrees to lift an order for the state to have a second congressional district where a majority or near-majority of residents are Black. Republicans currently hold four of the state’s six seats in the House and want to instead use a map that could allow them to win an additional seat.

South Carolina’s GOP-dominated legislature met Friday to discuss a proposal to create a new map that gives the party a shot at winning all seven of the state’s House seats. But some worried that breaking up the one Democratic-controlled district could make some other districts vulnerable to Democratic election wins.

Tennessee enacted a law Thursday creating a new U.S. House map that carves up a majority-Black House district in Memphis, the only one now held by a Democrat. That would give Republicans a strong chance of winning all nine of the state’s seats.

The balance of power could be tipping more to Republicans

Normally, House districts are reworked only after results from the once-a-decade U.S. Census are tallied.

This time it’s different.

President Donald Trump urged Texas officials to draw new districts to help his chance of keeping Congress in GOP control after the 2026 midterm elections. Texas officials complied with a plan designed to bring them as many as five new seats.

Democratic-dominated California responded with a map intended to bring them five new seats. Other states have followed. And in the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling, the pace has picked up, though it’s been mostly in states where Republicans have nearly all the seats already and thus not much room for gains.

Without counting the pending possible map changes in Alabama, Louisiana and South Carolina, the mid-decade redistricting has created 14 more House seats that Republicans believe they could win and six that could give Democrats an edge. Overall, that would mean a potential eight-seat advantage for the GOP ahead of a midterm election, when the president’s party normally loses seats.

But as changes and court challenges play out – along with voters having their say – the results aren’t certain.

Currently, Republicans have 217 seats in the House to Democrats’ 212. There’s one independent member. Five seats are vacant.

Betty Broderick, a notorious figure known for the murder of her ex-husband and his new wife, has passed away at 78 while serving time in prison.

Broderick’s death occurred on Friday within a California correctional facility, as confirmed by the state Department of Corrections to the Daily Mail.

In the weeks leading up to her death, she had been relocated to a medical center for enhanced care. However, the specific health issues she faced were not disclosed due to privacy regulations.

Authorities have indicated that her death was due to natural causes, with the precise cause to be determined following an autopsy.

Back in November 1989, Broderick was convicted for fatally shooting her former husband, Dan Broderick, and his wife, Linda Kolkena, while they slept.

Dan had an affair with Kolkena in the 1980s after having four children with Broderick. 

Dan and Broderick filed for divorce in 1985 after 19 years of marriage. He married Kolkena, a flight attendant, in 1989. 

Kolkena had been hired by Dan as a legal assistant to help with his marital woes with his wife. He denied the affair until they got divorced. 

Betty Broderick (pictured in 2023) died on Friday in a California prison. She was determined to have died of natural causes 

Broderick fell into a depression during her and her husband’s divorce proceedings 

The former couple fought hard in their divorce over the custody of their children, which Dan was eventually granted. They also battled over who kept their family home. 

The proceedings caused Broderick to fall into a depression and she later killed the new couple. 

She was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder in 1991 and sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. 

Broderick attempted to get parole several times while in prison, but was denied. 

In 2017, she was described as ‘defiant’ and ‘completely unrepentant’ by the San Diego County Deputy District Attorney Richard Sachs. 

Broderick wrote in a letter of a podcast that she was a ‘political prison’ and that the murders were due to domestic abuse.  

The Daily Mail has reached out to the Department of Corrections for comment. 

In 2020, the Daily Mail revealed secret letters written by Broderick to her boyfriend, where she was begging for money and affection.  

Broderick was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder in 1991

She shot her husband and his wife in their bed in 1989 

Betty’s boyfriend, Bradley Wright, she began dating before committing murder and he was the one who discovered the bodies of her victims. 

The letters were dated from 2003 to 2006, and they shed a light on Broderick’s time in prison and her turbulent relationship with Bradley, who stayed in touch with his murderous girlfriend and sent her money well after her sentencing in 1991.

The secret stash of love letters were unearthed in a storage unit in San Diego, California, in October 2020 along with checks Bradley sent to Broderick’s daughter and money order receipts.

She gushed over her lover in the correspondence.

In one letter, from April 2006, she wrote: ‘If I had a penny for every time I think of you, I’d be a millionaire many times over.’

The mother-of-four insisted that Bradley was her perfect man in another message.

‘I was thinking of what I’m looking for in a man – since you are not available – well the list was a description of you! You’re exactly the guy! Da**it.’

She also urged Bradley to leave his partner for her and encouraged him to ‘sneak’ away and visit her in prison.

In 2020, the Daily Mail revealed secret letters between Broderick and her lover 

He had sent her money and photographs 

‘If you want to live in [unclear] with me, like you say you do, going back to Lisa is not how that’s gonna happen.

‘I can’t believe you don’t come here! It’s been years! Now that she’s back to work, maybe you can sneak away?’

A photograph of a bride and groom was discovered with the secret stash of letters, implying that Bradley had moved on and married another woman despite the contact with his killer ex behind bars.

Betty even took it upon herself to dispense relationship advice to Bradley and asked him to seek professional help in her letters from prison.

‘Sorry to hear your life is a mess. I don’t want to come back to a mess,’ she wrote.

‘Did you go to counseling? Whatever patterns you have will continue for better or worse.

‘You know the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. I should know!’

The couple married in 1969 and Dan went on to graduate from Cornell medical school and Harvard law school to establish a successful medical-malpractice law firm.

Broderick found out about her husband’s affair while visiting his office on his birthday, only to be told he and Kolkena had gone out for the day 

However, as Dan chased his star career, Broderick grew resentful that he neglected her and their children.

Over the years their marriage crumbled, and by 1983, Broderick accused Dan of having an affair with Kolkena, who some claimed looked like the younger version of her.

On one occasion Broderick visited her husband’s office on his birthday and found the remnants of a party.

But her husband was nowhere to be found. A receptionist told her Dan and Kolkena had gone out for the day. Outraged, Broderick went home and burned her husband’s clothes in a bonfire.

Dan later admitted to her that her suspicions were right, that he had been having an affair with Linda for the past two years.

In 1985, Dan filed for divorce. And in 1989, he married Kolkena, but the tensions between the newlywed couple and Broderick only intensified.

Broderick went on a rampage, including defacing the couple’s former home, ramming her car into his front door and leaving obscene messages on his answering machine.

She also repeatedly told their children that she would kill him.

In return, Dan had Broderick arrested and placed in a mental facility, as well as obtaining a restraining order against her, and barring her from entering his property, which she repeatedly ignored.

Seven months after Dan’s remarriage, Broderick broke into Dan and Kolkena’s home on November 5, 1989, at around 5am and shot them both dead.

A Milwaukee man has been identified as the alleged orchestrator behind a wave of perilous and disruptive street takeovers sweeping across the city. This revelation has led to serious charges against 22-year-old Ricky Alcantara-Hernandez, who was apprehended following incidents on the weekend of April 25th and 26th.

The Milwaukee Police Department, speaking to Fox News Digital, disclosed that they received around 20 calls for service related to these chaotic gatherings. The takeovers have not only raised safety concerns but have also stirred significant unrest within the community.

Captured on video, several of these events were shared online, showcasing a recurring presence of the same vehicles and peculiar characters—including someone dressed as an inflatable SpongeBob and another individual in an orange jumpsuit with a mask—appearing at various sites around the city, according to the charging documents.

An image released by the Milwaukee Police Department captures Ricky Alcantara-Hernandez in handcuffs, marking a significant step in addressing the lawlessness associated with these street takeovers.

Charging documents say that videos of several of the takeovers were posted online and showed “the same cars and at least two costumed characters (an inflatable Sponge Bob and an individual in an orange jumpsuit and mask)” in different locations within the city.

Police say this vehicle was linked to street takeovers in Milwaukee. (Milwaukee Police Department)

In one of those videos, two drivers are seen doing burnouts and donuts in the middle of an intersection with a large crowd watching and cheering.

Police say Alcantara-Hernandez helped instigate and organize the illegal meet-ups. 

Ricky Alcantara-Hernandez faces a litany of charges related to city street takeovers. (Milwaukee Police Department)

“The Milwaukee Police Department prioritizes enforcement for street takeovers in our city and is committed to ongoing investigations even after these events occur,” Milwaukee Police Chief Jeffrey Norman said in a statement. “If you participate, plan or spectate these events for enjoyment, you are endangering the safety of others. Those who cause harm to our community will be held accountable.”

On Sunday, May 3, the district attorney’s office in Milwaukee charged Alcantara-Hernandez with three counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety as party to a crime, along with one count of selling, possessing, using or transporting a machine gun.

Fox News Digital reached out to his attorney.

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SAN FRANCISCO — The Giants have found themselves languishing at the bottom of the league when it comes to stolen bases and other offensive statistics, struggling to hit or run effectively, especially in tandem.

In an effort to shake things up on Friday night, Manager Tony Vitello decided to put some wheels in motion. He had Jesus Rodriguez on the move, while Jung Hoo Lee managed to connect with a low splitter, sending it into the outfield. Rodriguez made it from first to third with ease.

This display of aggression is exactly what Vitello, in his inaugural season as manager, has been advocating for in hopes of pulling his team out of a persistent scoring drought. Ironically, despite the hustle and energy, this particular effort didn’t result in any runs during the Giants’ 5-2 victory over the Pirates.

“Everyone’s pushing hard to find any sort of advantage,” Vitello remarked. “But ultimately, you need a player to get on base first.”

The simple truth remains: For the Giants to make a run, they need to start by taking a walk.

Or at least get on base.

And one particular tried and true method — laying off four pitches outside the strike zone, removing your protective gear and moseying up the first-base line — has largely eluded them.

Win or loss, day or night, it’s been the same result for the Giants their past three games: An egg in the walks column. Friday’s win was their third consecutive game without drawing a walk, a specific type of drought that’s occurred only 13 times in franchise history — twice now since 1976.

“I think that’s one of the biggest points of this year,” shortstop Willy Adames said. “Me personally, I haven’t been walking a lot. I think that kind of goes to trying to make stuff happen, and then kind of get in a black hole and it’s hard to get out of that.”

In Adames’ case, not a lot equates to six bases on balls in 155 plate appearances, tied with Casey Schmitt (4.0%) for the lowest walk rate on a team on pace to draw historically few.

San Francisco has walked 72 times in 38 games, or roughly an equivalent to 307 over a full season. In the franchise’s history, no team has ended a 162-game schedule with fewer than 392 (2009). Another 16 teams that played fewer than 162 games drew more than 307.

“I think things are going to come, especially when we start winning more games,” Adames said. “Things are going to be changing.”

One problem: It’s a bit of a chicken-and-egg scenario.

The Giants aren’t exactly striking fear in pitchers’ eyes. Their home run pace isn’t quite as abysmal (102, which would be 19th-fewest in franchise history post-deadball era), but they’ve given little reason for opposing catchers to set their targets on the corners.

As a result, no team has gotten more pitches in the strike zone — and it’s not particularly close. The Giants have seen 52.1% of their pitches over the plate; the second-highest team is 50.6%.

“Pitchers have been attacking us,” Adames said. “When you’re struggling, you go to the plate and you blink and it’s 0-2. It’s hard to draw a walk when you’re 0-2 [after] the first two pitches.”

It doesn’t help that the Giants are also offering at pitches outside the strike zone at the sixth-highest rate in the league (32.0%). Part of that has to do with roster construction.

No need to complain about Schmitt’s swing decisions when he has been carrying the offense. Luis Arraez, Lee and Rodriguez are all contact-happy, too, often while being the only cogs that seem to be working in Vitello’s lineups.

Still, the chasm between their batting average (.238, 17th) and on-base percentage (.284, 30th) hasn’t gotten any smaller. While they wait for the middle of their lineup to thaw, the Giants are going to scrounge for ways to score in every nook and cranny in their clubhouse.

Including, when the situation calls for it, the hit and run.

“It’s something we did in spring training. It’s something we’d like to [do],” Vitello said. “Ultimately you’ve gotta have a guy on base. One of those main characters. And then a strike-pumper on the mound. There’s been a lot of conversation about being more aggressive. That’s why I’m a fan of on-base percentage, and then part of it is just us pulling the trigger on some things.”

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