#MLBVideos: ULTIMATE Vin Scully highlight reel! 🎙️ (Legendary Dodgers announcer’s best baseball calls! ⚾️)

ULTIMATE Vin Scully highlight reel! 🎙️ (Legendary Dodgers announcer’s best baseball calls! ⚾️)

It gets through but there is the most beautiful and dramatic moment in the history of sports. She is gone. There’s almost some poetry in the moment. It will be time for Dodger baseball. And look who’s coming up. All year long they look to him to light the fire. And all year long he answered the demands until he was physically unable to start tonight with two bad legs. The bad left hamstring and the swollen right knee. And with two out, you talk about a roll of the dice. This is it. If he hits the ball on the ground, I would imagine he would be running 50% to first base. So, the Dodgers trying to catch Lightning right now. So, Mike Davis, the tying run is at second base with two out. Now, the Dodgers don’t need the muscle of Gibson as much as a base hit. And on deck is the leadoff man, Steve Saxs. Three and two. Sachs waiting on deck, but the game right now is at the plate. Highf fly ball into right field. She is gone. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened. Bottom of the ninth inning at Kors Field in Denver. And what so far has happened is what most baseball people felt could not possibly happen. That would be impossible to happen. That anyone could come into this haven for home runs, this nightmare alley, and hold the Rockies to no hits. But that’s exactly what Hideon Nommo has done through eight innings. Because of the importance of the moment, our telecast on KTLA Channel 5 has been joined by ESPN so we can share the moment and the drama with baseball fans around the country. So, pull up a chair and here we go with Eric Young. Strike splitter in the dirt. All in one. The only thing there were two balls hit tonight. One was hit by Galaraga after Berts had walked in the fourth inning. Greg Gagny made a diving stop of the ball. Could not have gotten Galaraga, but he was able to get the force on Bur. That was in the fourth inning. One ball, one strike. The other Vinnie Castillia in the fourth inning hit a long fly ball on a three and 0 pitch and Mandisy running parallel to the scoreboard in right field picked it off. Those were the two close to a hit. Fast ball hit down to Deields. One away. And now Nommo has done something else you don’t see here. He has the crowd at Kersfield rooting for him. Quinton McCracken coming up. One out in the ninth. McCracken walk, stole second, reached third in the first inning. Grounded to Deields to back to the box in the sixth. Ground ball to Deields. He is one out away and Ellis Burks, the nationally player of the week, is standing in Nommo’s way of a no hitter. Burks is the other player to come close to breaking the no hitter. In the sixth inning, he hit a comebacker and Nommo reached up and grabbed it and threw him out. And now the picture will tell the story. Ah, shut up. How does this sound in Japanese? Ken Fukahara and Masanori Morakami. One ball and one strike on deck. Donnie Bette who has struck out three times. Ellis Burks hitting 348. Fast ball missed. Ball two. The way the ball carries here, the inability to really break off a good curve ball makes what he has done up to here truly remarkable. Two and one. And now one precious strike away. Got him. Pedo Nommo has done what they said could not be done. Not in the Mile High City, not at Kors Field in Denver. He has not only shut out the Rockies, he has pitched a no hitter. And thank goodness they saw it in Japan. As long as this game is played, and certainly as long as there is a team called the Dodgers, the number 42 would mean only one man, Jackie Robinson. And before the game, Magic Johnson hugging Don Nukem, Rachel Robinson, his widow, daughter Sharon. They were all here for the ceremonial first toss along with Jackie’s grandson, Jesse Sims. A heartwarming picture. And of course for me, someone who traveled with Jackie, did I ever tell you about the time Jackie and I raced each other on ice skates? Well, I’m not going to tell you now, but uh that’s going to be hit into right field here on the run picks it off. One away. So Connor Gillespie and out to right and Barry Zo coming up. Barry Zo. What happened was Rachel and Jackie and I were going up to a resort in the Catskill Mountains a long, long time ago. Being a kid from the east, I had ice skates. Jackie and Rachel said, “Oh, you’re going to go skating?” I said, “Yeah.” They said, “We’ll go with you.” Oh, I said, “That’s great.” Now, the only problem was Rachel was about 7 months pregnant. Sure enough, she got ice skates. Now, Jackie is putting his skates on alongside of me in the dressing room. And he said, “When we get out there, I’d like to race you.” I said, “Jack, I didn’t know you ice skated. You’re from Southern California. I mean, football and baseball, but I didn’t know ice skating.” Squirts down to Gordon. Two out. Anyway, I said, “I didn’t know you ice skated.” And Jackie said, “I’ve never been on skates in my life.” So, I started to laugh. I said, “Hey, Jack, come on. Let’s face it. I mean, I’m not a great skater, but I can skate.” He said, “I know, but I said, I want to race you because that’s how I’m going to learn.” And if you’ve never been on ice skates and you put skates on, the first thing you do is walk on your ankles. And sure enough, he was running on his ankles on the ice trying to beat me. But what was as memorable and scarier was Rachel. She was on the ice with a girl whose name I believe was Moren Miller, an Olympic skating star. And there was Rachel, seven, eight months pregnant, kind of mincing around on her ice skates. I was had my heart in my throat. But anyway, there aren’t very many people who can say, “Oh, sure. I raced Jackie Robinson on ice.” Once again, a standing ovation for Henry Aaron. So, the confrontation for the second time. Aaron walked in the second inning. He means the tying run at the plate now. We’ll see what Downing does. All at the belt delivers and he’s low. Ball one. And that just adds to the pressure. The crowd booing. Downing has to ignore the sound effects and stay a professional and pitches game. One ball and no strikes. Aaron waiting. The outfield deep and straight away. Fast ball is a high drive into deep left center field. Butner goes back to the fence. It is gone. What a marvelous moment for baseball. What a marvelous moment for Atlanta and the state of Georgia. What a marvelous moment for the country and the world. A black man is getting a standing ovation in the deep south for breaking a record of an all-time baseball idol. And it is a great moment for all of us and particularly for Henry Aaron who was met at home plate not only by every member of the Braves but by his father and mother. He threw his arms around his father and as he left the home plate area, his mother came running across the grass, threw her arms around his neck, kissed him for all she was worth. As Aaron circled the bases, the Dodgers on the infield shook his hand. And that was a memorable moment. Aaron is being mobbed by photographers. He is holding his right hand high in the air. And for the first time in a long time, that poker face of Aaron shows the tremendous strain and relief of what it must have been like to live with for the past several months. It is over. At 10 minutes after 9 in Atlanta, Georgia, Henry Aaron has eclipsed the mark set by Babe Ruth. You could not, I guess, get two more opposite men. The babe, big and garous and oh sociable and oh so immense in all of his appetites. And then the quiet lad out of Mobile, Alabama, slender and stayed slender throughout his career. Ruth as he put on the poundage and the punch. The Yankees put their ball players in pinstripe uniforms because it made Ruth look slimmer. But they didn’t need pinstripe uniforms for Henry Aaron in the twilight of his career. He looked almost the same as he did when he first came up 20 years ago. And so it was a memorable moment before the game. And now, what a sweet moment it is here in the middle of the game. So, Henry and the Babe, the two greatest home run hitters that have ever lived. And it’s a marvelous, wonderful, enjoyable moment here in Atlanta. We’re so happy, too, that it could be seen all over the United States, that it will be duly reported all around the world. And I’m sure films of it will be seen around the world and you can hear Georgia around the world. Three times in his sensational career as Sandy Kofax walked out to the mound to pitch a fateful night where he turned in a no hitter. But tonight, September the 9th, 1965, he made the toughest walk of his career, I’m sure, because through eight innings, he has pitched a perfect game. He has struck out 11. He has retired 24 consecutive batters. It is 9:46 p.m. Two and two to Harvey Keane. One strike away. Sandy into his windup. Here’s the pitch. swarted on and missed. A perfect game on the scoreboard in right field. It is 9:46 p.m. in the city of the Angels, Los Angeles, California, and a crowd of 29,139. Just sitting in to see the only pitcher in baseball history to hurl four no hit, no run games. He has done it four straight years and now he capped it on his fourth no hitter. He made it a perfect game. And Sandy Kofax, whose name will always remind you of strikeouts, did it with a flourish. He struck out the last six consecutive batteries. So when he wrote his name in capital letters in the record books, that K stands out even more than the Ofax. with the National League leading two to nothing. And as Bo Jackson comes up, we talked about Azie Smith and you were in a Cardinal uniform. And Jackson wears baseball and football and you did football. Uh yes, I played the Gipper, but I also played for real in a much earlier time. But that bow down there, that’s a pretty interesting hobby he has for his vacation. When baseball ends, he winds up playing football. I I just I don’t know if there’s ever been. Hey, he’s remarkable. And look at that one. Bo Jackson says hello. Woo. And Rick Russell is greeted on the first pitch to Bo Jackson. He almost hit it out of state. You know, that’s going to set it up pretty interesting for him to the end of this season when he goes back to the Los Angeles Raiders. Watch this again. Sir, you could have taken a trip to Washington, I think. High fives in the dugout. It is two to one National League. Interestingly enough, on the home run, the last four home runs in Allstar games have all been hit by the American League. And boy, that thing was really crushed. You were talking earlier about how baseball makes you feel young. Rick Russell, a pitcher, is 40 years old. He is almost the oldest pitcher to ever start in a National League game with the American League. Warren Spawn was about a month older. So he’s a remarkable story. Yeah, he’s 6′ three. He weighs what is it? 240 lbs. And he’s got 12 vic wins and and a former cub. Former cub. Yes. Does it feel a great deal different sitting here doing a television game as opposed to the days of recreating? It is different. This is I can’t get quite used to this. Hey, that looks like it’s going there, too. Eric Davis to the track. There it is. Gone. A rather electrifying moment here in Anaheim with the National League leading two to nothing. Consecutive home run by Bode Jackson and Wade Bogs. And the last time we had consecutive home runs in an Allstar game was 1975. hit to Sandberg and they get the Kirby pucket. One down. But you know, both of those home runs, you didn’t have to wait for them. Even the outfielders knew they were going out of the park. They sure did. Perhaps the most beautiful and dramatic moment in the history of sports. Let there be a prayer for every light. And wherever you are, maybe you in silent tribute to Campanella can also say a prayer for his well-being. Got it. The greatest game ever in baseball history by Don Lson. A no hitter. A perfect game in a world. Never in the history of the game has it ever happened in a World Series. And so it has come to this. We go to the ninth inning here at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers six runs, 12 hits, one error. The Cardinals no runs, no hits, and three errors. It is the 29th of June in case someday long from now Fernando is playing this back to his grandchildren. And Vince Coleman will start it off. Coleman is grounded a short and struck out twice. Pass ball away. Ball one for Fernando. It began with the Dodgers in 1980. This is game number 314 for him in his career and he’s had some glorious moments, but none brighter than right now in a screw ball high ball twos. He has a paid crowd of 38,583. Over 39,000 in the house and they are here. They are riveted in their seats. Fernando into his wind up and the two pitch is in there first right. Anytime a pitch is taken at the plate, you could almost neglect to call ball or strike because this crowd would let you know. In eight innings, Fernando made 107 pitches. So, he should have quite a bit of ammunition left. The 2-1 pitch to Coleman line foul outside of third and down the line. And the crowd ooze and a severity of the blow and also thinking about how close it might have been to breaking the spell. Coleman talking about a spell being broken is hitting 300. He has a 10ame hitting streak of his own on the line. The crowd trying to will Fernando to get an out. And the two two pitch is strike three called outside corner as Coleman ran up as if to bunt and he and Jerry Lane the plate umpire are nose tonose but Coleman has struck out three times and more importantly Fernando has only two outs to go. It is almost incidental to report that that is the seventh strikeout of the night for Fernando Valenuela. And now Willie McGee, who has hit Fernando hard in the past tonight, struck out, lined out, and grounded out, takes a look at a pitch low, ball one. A lot of pressure on a lot of people, including Mike Sharperson, who just came into the game, remember, as a pinch hitter in the bottom of the eighth. and cold. If you could be cold on a night like tonight in Los Angeles, he is asked to play third base. 90 ft away from the hitters with a no hitter in the balance. There is pressure in the press box. Joe Ferguson trying to deploy the Dodger defensive alignment to perfection. Fernando’s 10 pitch to McGee outside. In looking at the Dodgers, Eddie Murray wide but even with the bag at first. Sharperson close and even with the bag at third. The outfield shaded to left. Javier slightly into left center. Brooks giving McGee most of right field and Gonzalez straight away in left. Fernando reading his buddy signs. Mike Sosa and the 20 Scroogi is high. Ball three. For the record, the men behind him, Eddie Murray, Juan Samuel, Alfredo Griffin, and Mike Sharperson, Jose Gonzalez, Stan Javier, and Hubie Brooks. Fernando back 3 0 and he is inside ball four. So now when he needs everything he has, he will have to pitch out of his stretch with Guerrero and Zeal coming up. is almost some poetry in the moment to realize the former Dodger, the good friend of Fernando as a teammate. And it is Pedro Guerrero hitting 294 with the opportunity now to break up the no hitter. Guerrero hit a looping fly ball to shallow left, dropped by Gibson for an error, fly to center and walked after that. And there goes McGee. And the pitch is hit. Foul outside of third and down the line. 0 and one. So McGee going on the pitch. Fernando intent on getting Guerrero because McGee with all of his talent can’t steal a no hitter from first base. McGee has stolen 21 out of 25 with the Cardinals down six to nothing. It’s not that McGee wants to steal. But the Dodgers don’t want to hold him on. Murray is well off the bag and so McGee figures if you’re going to give it to me, we’ll get it and take it. The strike one pitch to Pedro Guerrero. Swung on and missed. And the crowd now with more emotion following every pitch. There was a short chant. Pedro, Pedro, as they did in Boston in the 86 World Series to try and taunt Strawberry. And now they’re doing it to Guerrero, hoping to distract him, hoping to upset him, hoping perhaps to make him try too hard. Fernando ready in the strike two pitch is hit back to the box, dribbling to second. Samuel on the bag, close to first. Double play. Fernando Valenuela has pitched a no hitter at 1017 in the evening of June the 29th, 1990. If you have a sombrero, throw it to the sky. Tension mounts some more with two out in the 10th. 54 Red Sox. Gray Knight at first, Kevin Mitchell at third. Two and two to Mookie Wilson. And it’s going to go to the back stop. Here comes Mitchell to score the tying run. And Ray Knight is at second base. Three and two to Mookie Wilson and he pops it in the air. Foul off to the right. Giddman coming over. He will not have a play. That was a wild pitch. Way inside. Gentman reaches for it. You see it hardly moved as far as shifting and it gets by him. A wild pitch. Apparently not near where he was looking for the pitch. 55 in a delirious 10th inning. Line drive foul and Marty Barrett was out of position because they had Knight really picked up but Stanley didn’t see him. There it is again. You see he just reaches for the ball. Down goes Mookie it kind of sailed inside. And here comes Barrett in to talk to Stanley because had Muki hit just a weak ground ball was way out of position because they had a good chance to get night at second base. Can you believe this ball game at Shay? Oh brother. So the winning run is at second base with two out. Three and two to Mookie Wilson. Little roller up along first behind the bag. It gets through Buckner. Here comes Knight. And the Mets win it. Little background on Dennis Martinez. He has been married for 18 years. He and his wife Loots have four children, three boys and a girl. And you can bet wherever they are today, whether in Canada or Florida, someone is on the phone with him telling him that Papa’s having the day of his life. 24 consecutive outs recorded by Dennis Martinez and Sosa waiting at the plate. Dennis delivers curve ball in there for a strike. 0 and one. Let’s set Montreal. Larry Walker, Delino Deield, Spike Owen, and Tim Wallik. Ivon Calderon, Marcus Gryom, and Dave Martinez in the outfield. Behind the plate, Ron Hassie. The strike one fast ball hit in the air to left field and Calderon is there to get it. Two outs to go from a perfect game for Dennis Martinez. One other note as Stan Javier is now coming off the bench to bat for Alfredo Griven and we’ll probably see Chris Gwyn to hit for Mike Morgan. Javier batting for Griffin. Ron Hassie who is behind the plate for Montreal has caught a perfect game in his career. Hassie was catching for Cleveland when Lamb Barker pitched a perfect game against Toronto about 10 years ago. Here is Javier starving from the left side of the plate. Swings and doesn’t get it. And the count 0 and one. Boy, what a moment. In the history of Dodger Stadium since 1962, no opposing player has ever pitched a no hitter. And then the other night, Mike Gardner Mark went nine innings of no hit ball. The strike, one pitch. Javier takes outside, one ball and one strike. Javier as a left-hand pinch hitter is 0 for7. So what are the odds? A fell who does not have a hit hitting left-handed against a fell who has not given up a hit. The 1-1 pitch is a curveball swung on and miss. one and two. And now it is happening what we normally experience in any ballpark. When a visiting pitcher is so close to greatness, even the home team fans begin to root for him. He has come too far. He has journeyied too long to drop it. So with one out in the ninth, one and two, the count of Stan Javier and the curve ball is fouled away. Javier really had to go down and get it. And the count one and two. Chris Gwyn is out on deck to bat for Mike Morgan. And Dennis Martinez perhaps relishing the pressure. Then again just trying to take plenty of time between pitchers. Standing on the grass behind the mound. A pinch of the rosin bag. And now Dennis slowly up on top again. It has taken him a little more than two hours to get here. One and two. The count to Stan Javier. Dennis turns on the rubber. The right-handers pitch a fast ball around the eyes. And now you can hear the crowd. They want it. They want all the pitches for Dennis. They’ve been watching him and rooting against him for eight innings. But when he got social to lead off the ninth, this crowd has suddenly gone for Dennis Martinez. Hassie in his chair behind the plate. wigwagging some signs out. Dennis Ready in the 22 pitch to Javier. Curve ball got him swinging. Five strikeouts for Dennis Martinez. Two out. He is now one out away from a perfect game. And the sellout crowd at Dodger Stadium on its feet. Baseball is truly an unbelievable game. I never thought I’d see a perfect game. And I saw Larson Pitwan in the World Series. And I never thought I’d see another perfect game. And I saw Kofax pitch a perfecto against the Cubs. And I certainly never dreamed I would see a third perfect game. And we’re one out away from it. Chris Gwyn standing at the plate. Dennis Martinez delivers. Fast ball away. Ball one. It is that rare moment where the home crowd wants everything for the visiting pitcher. Chris Gwyn backs out now. Back up to the plate. He has a home run and 10 RBI’s. He is the most successful Dodger pinch hitter. The 10 curve ball in there for a strike in the count. One and one. So, Martinez is two strikes away from a perfect game. Ron Hassie is two strikes away from catching his second perfect game. And Larry Ponino, the National League umpire, is two strikes away from calling a perfect game. Martinez looks in to get a sign. One and one. The count to Chris Gwyn. Delino Deields with nine assists on the grass in right field. Fast ball hit just foul outside a third and down the line. Fouled by a foot and not much more than that. And now the crowd seems to be inspired. It’s as if they take that as a sure sign that Dennis will get what he want. And what he wants is suddenly what they want. 47,224 on their feet. And Chris Gwyn standing aside, one and two, the count. One pitch away from a pitcher’s absolute nirvana. The pitcher’s dream, a perfect game. Dennis Martinez ready. And the one two pitch popped in the air to center field. Going deep on it is Marcus Gryom. He’s got it on the track. Dennis Martinez being mobbed by his teammates on this 28th of July, 1991, 3:22 p.m. in the afternoon. Dennis Martinez has reached the ultimate, a perfect game against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Nothing scratchy, nothing fluky. It was a masterpiece. on the boat. Two of them. All right. I’m not sure what he’s doing out there. It looks like he’s going to burn a flag and Rick Monday runs and takes it away from him. And so Monday, I think a guy was going to set fire to the American flag. Can you imagine that? and Monday when he realized what he was going to do, raced over and took the flag away from him. What a moment as Nolan Ryan tries to become the first pitcher ever to have five no hitters. He faces the hottest Dodger hitter, Dusty Baker, standing in his way. Bake hitting 319. Grounded out twice and struck out. Everybody standing up. Breaking ball hit to third to the first. He’s got it. Base loaded, one out and the game on the line. Pñena right foot on the rubber. You can taste the pressure here in the dome as Alejandro straightens up and the pitch to Larkin. Swung on a high fly ball into left center. The run will score. The ball will bounce for a single and the Minnesota Twins are the champions of the world. A magnificent game, a magnificent series, and sadly it is all over. No sadness in Minnesota as the Twins are a champions in a magnificent finish. And the final score in 10 innings, the Minnesota Twins won the Atlanta Braves nothing. This crowd has hollered itself weak. Henderson at second, Molator at first, one out in the ninth. 65 Philadelphia. Stunnel Meer and Castillo throwing in case of extra innings. Fast ball is hit to left field down the line in the corner. Home run. Joe Carter, who took the two and 0 pitch for a strike right down the middle, hits the two and one pitch over the left field wall. And the Toronto Blue Jays come back with three in the bottom of ninth inning to become the world’s champions yet again. The final score, Toronto 8, Philadelphia 6. Now the Atlanta Braves one out away. It is Carlos Berga who is standing in the way. The second baseman playing gamely throughout the series on a bad ankle hit back to the box, flyed to center and lined out to third. So this capacity crowd one out away from complete euphoria. So here is Berga. Wers looks in to get a sign. Big right hand to ready delivers. Fast ball hit in the air to left center on the dead run as Gryom. He’s got it. And the Atlanta Braves are the champions of the world and they are going wild. Mobbing wers, a huge mile of humanity in front of the mound. The crowd dancing in the aisles. Fireworks going on overhead. And quietly, the Cleveland Indians slowly and single file leave their dugout. Good evening and welcome to Dodger Stadium. All of us have experienced a litany of emotions whether it would be shock, disbelief and horror followed by grief, mourning and anger. All of us indeed have lost a lot. We have lost thousands of lives. We have lost some of our self-confidence. We have lost some of our freedom and certainly we have lost a way of life. The president of the United States has said it is time to go back to work. And so, despite a heavy heart, baseball gets up out of the dirt, brushes itself off, and will follow his command, hoping in some small way to inspire the nation to do the same. All of the ball players in the major leagues are wearing the American flag out of patriotism, yes, out of love of country, yes, but more so out of duty and of courage and to pronounce a national firmness of will. God bless us in our efforts. God bless America. Friends, I interrupt the ball game and I come to you with a heavy heart to make the announcement that at 6:45 p.m. tonight, coach John Wooden passed away at Ronald Reagan UCLA Hospital. The great coach at UCLA was 99 years old, would have been 100 in October. Those of us who knew him and knew him well are the ones who were blessed by his life. And as usual, when it gets down to it, Shakespeare said it best. His life was gentle and the elements so mixed in him that nature might stand up and say to all the world, “This was a man.” And you know, John was a big baseball fan. So I know he does not want you to be down. He wants you to get back to the ball game. That’s exactly what we’ll do in his honor. And there is one out to go. One miserable measly out. Got it. He’s done it. Clayton Kershaw pitches a no hitter. A careerhigh 15 strikeouts. It is the 22nd no hitter in Dodger history and the batter Justin Turner who struck out in the first inning. Justin hitting 311. Before the game, the Dodgers had a cute little promotion. Justin Turner had a baseball and he went looking for a red-headed child. There aren’t that many of them, but he did find a 10year-old with blazing red hair and he gave the youngster the ball and declared, “You’re going to throw out their first pitch.” And the little guy did. He did very well. Breaking ball strike one and one. Somebody told me, and I don’t remember the year, but they said by the year 20, let’s say 30, by the year 2030, there will no longer be any redheads. Yeah, that’s what I was told. I’m not sure why. By the year 2030, I know one redhead who really doesn’t care. I’m not going to be around to see it. You know, Bumgara tells a story which in a sense reminds you of what it takes to be a big league ball player. two years ago in spring training and he and his wife were roping cattle which is what they do one-1 pitch sinker low ball two two and one and they were startled by a large snake and Madison thought it was a rattlesnake so he grabbed an axe and he hacked the snake to pieces but there’s something more to the story 2-1 pitch low ball three and one. When his wife Ally and an expert field dresser examined what was left of the snake, she found two baby jack rabbits inside pieces of the snake and extracted them. 3-1 pitch to Turner way inside ball four. And after she extracted them, a short while later, the bum garners noticed that one of the rabbits had moved slightly. It was alive. Well, his wife brought the rabbit back to their apartment for the next few days. They kept it warm, bottle nursed it, and the rabbit soon was healthy enough that they released it into the wild. And Madison said, “Just think about how tough that rabbit was. First, it gets eaten by a snake, then the snake gets chopped to pieces, then it gets picked up by people and lives. It’s all true.” Meanwhile, line drive base hit to center by Hendrickk. And the Dodgers are in business first and second and nobody out. So I guess really the morale to the whole story about the rabbit and the snake. You’ve got to somehow survive. You got to somehow battle back. A lesson well taught for all of us. And how do you like this situation? The tying and possible winning runs are in scoring position with two out and Jack Clark coming up. in reading was sort of talking about walk him and pitch to that blank blank van slight. I think it was a rhetorical question. He’s not going to walk him. It is Jack Clark and Tom Neenure going head to head and the ball game on the line and the crowd on its feet one way or another. What a way to end. And he hits one to deep left field and that one is gone. And Lord got the answer to his rhetorical question. Something about should I walk this guy and pitch to that so and so. Well, he didn’t want it. With first base open, they pitched to Jack Clark. And they might live with that thought all winter long. Risdale ready on the 1-13. Curve ball cut on is a highf fly ball right down the left field line. Right on the line, hits the foul pole and kicks foul. That’s just about as foul as you can get without being fair. Willie Mays hitting the foul ball and it kicked off in foul ground. Rigidney is telling Maze to trot all the way around. Salty Parker and Bill Riggney appealing to third base umpire Dusty Baj. And now they’re going to wave Maze around. And here come the Dodgers after Bodess. If you know the Coliseum at all and you know the girder that supports the screen right down the left field line, Willie Mays hit a fly ball that actually hit that girder and then kicked off into foul territory. At first Dusty Bajas called it foul, but Riggney told Maize to go around anyway. And after Riggney and Sley Parker got into the discussion, Baja suddenly rolled home run. The Dodgers came racing out of the dugout. A firecracker goes off back of home like to scare everybody out of 10 years growth. And the argument continues directly back at third base along the line. All four umpires along with a heated group of Dodgers. Then the rhubarb continues about 30 ft down the line. A Willie Mazize who is normally causing a lot of noise either at the Coliseum or Seal Stadium was now really set off a bomb here at the Coliseum. Ladies and gentlemen, Vince Scully. Thank you. Thank you. Ah, come on. That’s just me. Thank you. That’s not fair. You made me cry once tonight. Hi everybody and a very pleasant good evening to you. I thought I’d get that out of the way right away. Welcome to my Thanksgiving because that is what this is all about. I should be on my knees today to pray in thanksgiving for all the wonderful things that have happened to me. I had a child’s dream and the grace of God not only gave me the fulfillment of the dream, he gave it for 67 years. I’ve loved this game for 80 years. That’s a lot of years. But at no time did I even waver in my allegiance to the greatest sport we have in this world. I have tremendous respect for every single man who ever wore a major league uniform going all the way back to my first year broadcasting in 1958. I know how hard it has taken you to get where you are. And I know how hard it is to stay where you are. And please God, let you all stay. Let you all have great careers. Now, wouldn’t that be nice? I would certainly like to thank his honor the mayor and commissioner Manfred. I have so many friends in the business from the playing field to the executive offices to the commissioner’s office to the media in the press box to my friends the sports writers across the country. But there is one group I really feel I must thank you people sitting in the stand. your enthusiasm, your passion for the game. When I was 8 years old, I fell in love with the roar of a football crowd coming out of a speaker on an old four-legged radio. When you roar, when you cheer, when you are thrilled, for a brief moment, I’m 8 years old again. What you have done is the reason why despite the fact that I’m 80 years old, you have allowed me to have a young at heart. You really and truly have been the wind beneath my wings. I owe you everything. Now, now people say to me, “Well, now that you’re retiring, what are you going to do?” Well, you know, if you’re 65 and you retire, you might have 20 years left of life or more, and you better have some plans. When you’re 89 and they ask you what your plans are, I’m going to try to live I have a great wife whom I adore. I have five wonderful children. I have 16 grandchildren and I have three great grandchildren. I guarantee you if I don’t know what to do, they will find something for me to do. I want you to know from the bottom of my heart how much I appreciate what the Dodgers have done to put this festive night together. I will never ever forget it. And I thank them from the bottom of my heart. And one last step for those of you who wonder about what I will do, put it this way. I’m looking for a much smaller house and a much larger medicine cabinet. Good night. You know, friends, so many people have wished me congratulations on a 67-year career in baseball, and they’ve wished me a wonderful retirement with my family. And now all I can do is tell you what I wish for you. May God give you for every storm a rainbow. For every tear a smile. For every care a promise and a blessing in each trial. For every problem life seems. A faithful friend to share. For every sigh a sweet song and an answer for each prayer. You and I have been friends for a long time. But I know in my heart that I’ve always needed you more than you’ve ever needed me. and I’ll miss our time together more than I can say. But you know what? There will be a new day and eventually a new year. And when the upcoming winter gives way to spring, oh, rest assured once again, it will be time for Dodger baseball. So, this is Vince Scully wishing you a very pleasant good afternoon wherever you may be.

Vin Scully was hired to broadcast Brooklyn Dodgers games at the age of 22. Scully would announce for 67 years, becoming the longest-tenured broadcaster for one team in professional sports history, and would be a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.

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