Dejected Giants broadcast has one-of-a-kind call of Ketel Marte's walk-off homer

The SF Giants got walked off by the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday night. It was an awful loss in what has been a terrible season and Giants broadcaster Duane Kuiper’s dejected call of it really sums up exactly where the Giants are at right now.

As Ketel Marte launched the ball into the left field seats, Kuiper was silent until he said, “Unbelievable.” He usually at least says, “Gone,” when the opposing team hits a home run but he was seemingly so disgusted that he couldn’t even get that out. 

He just went with, “Unbelievable,” which is telling because typically Kuiper and his broadcast partner Mike Krukow reserve that word for something absurd happening. Whether it’s an egregious error or a bloop hit they typically only break that out when they are flabbergasted and have no other words to describe the calamity of events that have unfolded. It was the perfect word for the moment.

Kuiper was at least able to muster the strength to share a little information as Marte rounded the bases, saying, “And for Ketel Marte, that’s his first home run this year hitting right-handed.”

A few more seconds of silence followed by, “Not meant to be, here tonight. After getting out of jams in the seventh and the eighth they cannot get out of this one here in the ninth.”

Then, finally: “I don’t really have anything else to say, Mike, and I don’t think you do either so I’m gonna say this: D-backs 5, Giants 3, thanks for watching.”

Pure disgust and dejection.

Kuiper's call of D-backs walk-off shows just how bad the Giants are

Many on social media noted how that may have been the most defeated they have ever heard Kuiper sound after a loss. What is even more telling is how Krukow just remained absolutely silent throughout the entire thing. Not a single word. He too must have been absolutely fuming and has talked openly about how he’s yelled at the TV at times this season when watching the Giants blow games that he wasn’t calling.

Kruk and Kuip have seen it all at this point so for them to be basically speechless shows just how badly this season has gone for San Francisco.

It’s safe to say at this point that this is a bad baseball team. It just is. The Giants can win some games and look competent at times but on the whole they are a poorly constructed team that probably would have been lucky to be .500 or better coming into the season.

Now it feels like the wheels are starting to come off and this team might end up being thought of similarly to the 2017 squad that went 64-98 in one of the worst seasons in franchise history.

Kruk and Kuip are going to have to keep on watching this team just like the rest of us masochists who, for some reason, maybe like the pain. We may have to get used to it and we may have to get used to more calls like that from Kuiper especially since the Giants don’t have a closer right now and it seems like they are going to be well under .500 this season.

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