{"id":673589,"date":"2026-04-11T22:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/673589\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T22:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:30:26","slug":"don-orsillo-delivers-holy-sheets-call-on-padres-walk-off-home-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/673589\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Orsillo delivers &#8216;Holy Sheets!&#8217; call on Padres walk-off home run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the second straight night, the San Diego Padres walked off the Colorado Rockies with a home run at Petco Park.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday night, Xander Bogaerts hit a walk-off grand slam to give the Padres a 7-3 victory in the 12th inning, and <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/mlb\/rockies-call-of-padres-walk-off-grand-slam-will-leave-you-questioning-the-meaning-of-life.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">it left Rockies play-by-play announcer Drew Goodman quite sad<\/a>. And on Friday night, Gavin Sheets hit a walk-off three-run homer to give San Diego a 5-2 win in the ninth inning.<\/p>\n<p>This time, we\u2019ll focus on the call of Padres play-by-play announcer Don Orsillo, who is as good as they come in sports at delivering energetic calls in huge moments.<\/p>\n<p>Orsillo, the former Boston Red Sox play-by-play announcer, has been known to use a \u201cHoly Sheets\u201d line when Sheets gets big hits, and this one particularly brought the electricity and hilarity to the call on Padres.TV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSHEETS TO DEEP RIGHT-CENTER FIELD! IT\u2019S BAAACK! A THREE-RUN HOME RUN TO WALK IT OFF! SECOND STRAIGHT NIGHT FOR SAN DIEGO! HOLY SHEETS!\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cA THREE-RUN HOME RUN TO WALK IT OFF! SECOND STRAIGHT NIGHT FOR SAN DIEGO! HOLY SHEETS!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Don Orsillo with the Padres call of Gavin Sheets hitting a walk-off three-run homer. \u26be\ufe0f\ud83d\udca3\ud83c\udf99\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MLB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#MLB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dy1zFiuBIt\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Dy1zFiuBIt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/awfulannouncing\/status\/2042832329522188602?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The San Diego broadcast frequently delivers. Orsillo and entertaining color commentator Mark Grant form what <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/orig\/2025-mlb-local-broadcaster-rankings.html\/2#main-content\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Awful Announcing readers ranked as the top local broadcast booth in Major League Basebal<\/a>l last season. As one Awful Announcing reader put it well during that voting, \u201cOne of the few booths that can achieve unhinged humor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the second straight night, the San Diego Padres walked off the Colorado Rockies with a home run&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,52,25305,1530,28953,4,43,137,18,4339,4338],"class_list":{"0":"post-673589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego-padres","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-colorado-rockies","10":"tag-don-orsillo","11":"tag-gavin-sheets","12":"tag-mark-grant","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-padres","15":"tag-san-diego","16":"tag-san-diego-padres","17":"tag-sandiego","18":"tag-sandiegopadres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116388445104969786","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673589","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=673589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}