{"id":91543,"date":"2025-06-09T19:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T19:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/91543\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T19:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T19:12:12","slug":"mike-krukow-appalled-by-bizarre-fan-incident-in-giants-braves-game-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/91543\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Krukow \u2018appalled\u2019 by bizarre fan incident in Giants-Braves game \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area &#038; California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You never know what you&#8217;re going to see at the ballpark on any given day \u2014 both good and bad.<\/p>\n<p>In the top of the fourth inning of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/news\/camilo-doval-jung-hoo-lee-heliot-ramos-braves\/1854250\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/news\/camilo-doval-jung-hoo-lee-heliot-ramos-braves\/1854250\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Friday&#8217;s Giants vs. Atlanta Braves game<\/a> at Oracle Park, a fan from one of the top levels of the stadium <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/mlb\/san-francisco-giants\/tyler-fitzgerald-bob-melvin-umpires-braves\/1854297\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/mlb\/san-francisco-giants\/tyler-fitzgerald-bob-melvin-umpires-braves\/1854297\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seemingly threw a baseball onto the field<\/a> near home plate as a play at the plate unfolded, causing confusion by both teams and broadcasters Duane Kuiper and Mike Krukow, who expressed their bewilderment on the call below. <\/p>\n<p>Krukow joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2YqFjEwQjMM\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2YqFjEwQjMM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KNBR 680&#8217;s &#8220;Murph &amp; Markus&#8221;<\/a> on Monday morning, where he was asked about the odd incident and if he&#8217;s ever seen anything like it in his 48 combined years as an MLB player and broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, I&#8217;ve never seen that before in San Francisco,&#8221; Krukow said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve seen balls come out of the upper deck on the road. I&#8217;ve seen bottles come out of the upper deck on the road. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was appalled by it and it almost hit Andy Fletcher the home plate umpire in the head, it was about three feet from him. I don&#8217;t know if it was a rubber ball or a hard ball, I don&#8217;t know, but you&#8217;re just not used to it in our ballpark. Northern California fans get it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And as upsetting as it was, you come to the ballpark, and I don&#8217;t ever expect to see it again. I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re getting into a scenario where you&#8217;re going to see it on a regular basis. It shocked everybody and everybody was upset by it. I just don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s something we have to worry about. Hopefully that&#8217;s the case. But wherever that clown is today, shame on you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the ball did not hit anyone on the field of play, but as Krukow pointed out, it did almost hit home plate umpire Andy Fletcher. <\/p>\n<p>Giants manager Bob Melvin told reporters before Saturday&#8217;s game that the Giants had yet to identify the fan who threw the baseball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard they didn&#8217;t get it, that it came out of the upper deck and the cameras weren&#8217;t shooting that high,&#8221; Melvin said. &#8220;Hope it doesn\u2019t happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Giants have not provided any update as of Monday morning. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giants-talk-a-san-francisco-giants-podcast.simplecast.com\/episodes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Download and follow the Giants Talk Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You never know what you&#8217;re going to see at the ballpark on any given day \u2014 both good&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,162,13254,4,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342],"class_list":{"0":"post-91543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-giants","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-mike-krukow","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-san-francisco","13":"tag-san-francisco-giants","14":"tag-sanfrancisco","15":"tag-sanfranciscogiants","16":"tag-sf","17":"tag-sf-giants","18":"tag-sfgiants"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114654999231131365","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}