this game gets started"; when the ball game is over, Kuiper says, "And that's the ball game!" When Kuiper states the pitch count on a batter, he often calls "nothing" in lieu of calling "a ball" and the current number of strikes when the count is "no balls". Kuiper often uses the phrase "Got 'em!" when an out is recorded. His trademark home run call is "He hits it high... hits it deep... it is (or this baby is) OUTTA HERE!" or "HIGH DRIVE... LEFT (or RIGHT) FIELD... IT IS (sometimes: THIS BABY IS) OUTTA HERE!" Another popular home run saying, "THAT ONE'S HIGH, AND DEEP, AND... GONE! A HOME RUN!" In April 2010, Kuiper coined a new slogan from a fan's sign for the SF Giants club: "Giants baseball... torture!" This slogan is used generally if the games are either tense, tight, or very close, in which the Giants have later won by a small margin. Personal life Kuiper lives in Danville, California. He was married to Michelle Kuiper for 36 years before she died on February 20, 2022. Together, they had two children: a son, Cole, who is married to Rachel Jensen Kuiper and a daughter, Dannon, who is married to Zack Rease. Kuiper has two granddaughters named Andy (born 2019) and Kit (born 2021). Kuiper is just one in a family of baseball broadcasters, all working in the San Francisco Bay Area. His younger brother, Glen Kuiper, is the play-by-play announcer for the Oakland Athletics, a job mirroring his older brother's a few miles across the bay. Their middle brother, Jeff, is a television producer for the Giants who produces Duane's broadcasts. For many years, Kuiper would visit his family's farm in Sturtevant, Wisconsin whenever the Giants played the Brewers in Milwaukee. The farm continued to be owned by his father, Henry Kuiper, until the elder Kuiper sold it in 2018 so that the land could be redeveloped into a hospital complex. Henry Kuiper died in 2019 from natural causes at age 95. Kuiper is a cousin of former MLB player Dick Bosman. References Further reading External links Duane Kuiper at SABR (Baseball BioProject) 1950 births Living people Baseball players from Wisconsin Cleveland Indians players Colorado Rockies announcers Indian Hills Community College alumni Indian Hills Falcons baseball players Major League Baseball broadcasters Major League Baseball second basemen Oklahoma City 89ers players People from Danville, California Reno Silver