Giants broadcast crumbling after walk-off loss has Dodgers fans in stitches

Add this to the list of things you love to see as a Dodgers fan. While Los Angeles and San Diego are stuck in a two-horse race in the NL West, the San Francisco Giants just haven't been able to find their footing. Sure, an early-season series split against the Dodgers was a fun little highlight, but these Giants have gone back to their mediocre play in spectacular fashion.

If the Giants are to turn their season around, it'll have to start against NL West competition. That's the easiest way to make up ground, and the Giants are over 10 games back in the division.

A series loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks won't help matters. Neither will their most recent defeat, which all but silenced their own broadcast booth.

Matt Gage had a sub-2.00 ERA prior to this pitch. Even when Tony Vitello makes the smart decision, it backfires on the Giants.

Dodgers fans enjoying Giants' misery after gutting walk-off loss

The NL West is split into two classes. The first class, of course, are the Dodgers and Padres — two teams that could reasonably say they are World Series contenders — and then there's the rest. The Giants have tried oh so hard to contend thanks to flashy moves from president of baseball operations Buster Posey. Rafael Devers hasn't answered the call, and neither has Willy Adames.

But just as Giants fans were starting to give up hope — with some even calling for their first-year manager Vitello's head — they split a series against the Dodgers at home. Perhaps this was the turning point the squad needed to prove they can play with the big boys ... or maybe not.

The sound you heard from the Giants broadcast booth as Marte's home run left the yard was not an audible gasp, or even much a reaction at all. It was the familiar, eerie background noise of trained professionals who expected this to happen, but were trying to hide their frustration.

There was no real need for comment, either. The Giants broadcast booth didn't say a damn word. What's left to say for a team that has otherwise failed to live up to their payroll, and proven once and for all that they (as currently assmbled) are not in the same conversation as the Dodgers or Padres?

The Diamondbacks are just barely hanging on to relevance in the division race this season. At five games back, there's always a chance both the Dodgers and Padres falter in the dog days of summer. The same can't be said about the Giants, who ought to turn the page on this waste of a season and find some real solutions.

That'll be easier said than done given some of the albatross contracts they've committed to long term. All Dodgers fans can do is sit back and laugh at the sideshow.

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