promptly designated Morse for assignment. The following day he was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates in exchange for José Tábata. Morse was designated for assignment by the Pirates on April 13, 2016. He was released on April 21, 2016. Second stint with the Giants After his release from the Pirates, Morse did studio broadcasting work with MLB Network and CBS Radio. At Hunter Pence's wedding in November 2016, he talked to Giants' general manager Bobby Evans, who gave him a handshake deal to spring training to see if he could still contribute as a reserve major league player. On December 23, 2016, Morse signed a minor league contract with the San Francisco Giants. Morse was called up by the Giants on April 26, 2017. In his first major league at bat in over a year, he hit an eighth-inning, game-tying pinch hit home run, mirroring his blast in Game 5 of the 2014 NLCS. During a May 29, 2017, bench-clearing incident after Giants reliever Hunter Strickland hit Morse's former Nationals teammate Bryce Harper with a fastball and Harper charged the mound, Morse (playing first base at the time) quickly interposed himself between the two players in an effort to break up the fight. Giants starting pitcher Jeff Samardzija collided with Morse while taking a run at Harper, sending both Giants to the ground and leaving Morse with a concussion. Morse was placed on the 7-day concussion list after the game. He told the San Francisco Chronicle weeks later that he still remembered little of the altercation and was continuing to deal with concussion symptoms, for which he was receiving daily testing and treatment at Stanford University. Harper said he was "very thankful" to Morse for stepping in, noting that he could have been seriously injured if Samardzija had gotten through and hit him. Morse missed the remainder of the 2017 season as a result of the concussion. In 2017 with the Giants he batted .194/.250/.306. Broadcasting Although not ruling out a return to baseball, Morse in 2018 embarked upon a new career when the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN) hired him as a broadcaster. From May 25 to 27, 2018, he made his broadcasting debut by filling in for Ray Knight as the studio analyst on the Nats Xtra'' pregame and postgame shows on MASN, working with host Johnny Holliday during a weekend three-game Washington Nationals series at the Miami Marlins.