"Miguel Tejada hugged himself near the top step of the dugout Wednesday.

Actually, he hugged former Giants shortstop Royce Clayton, who portrays Tejada in the upcoming movie "Moneyball."

The meeting was pure chance. Clayton said he did not remember that Tejada signed with San Francisco. Clayton visited the clubhouse to recruit clients for a new business called Ball Tunes, which creates customized walk-up music.

The two had met before but had not run into each other since the movie was filmed. Tejada endorsed the casting wholeheartedly.

"It's great, you know, for me to have a real good baseball player play me," he said. Asked why he did not just play himself, Tejada said, "No, they didn't want to have the real guy."

The two share little resemblance. Clayton is taller and thinner but said he watched Tejada since the new Giant was "a pup" and was confident he did justice to his swing."