Dodgers broadcaster Rick Monday will be honored at the National Baseball Hall of Fame this summer during induction weekend, part of the 50th anniversary celebration of him stopping an American flag from getting burned on the field at Dodger Stadium on April 25, 1976.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been quite a baseball life for Monday, who was the very first pick in the first-ever MLB Draft in 1965. He played 19 seasons in the majors, eight with the Dodgers, made two All-Star teams, played in three World Series with Los Angeles<\/a> and won a championship in 1981.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Monday has also been broadcasting for over four decades, and is currently in his 34th consecutive season calling Dodgers games.<\/p>\n The flag Monday rescued in 1976 will be on display at the Hall of Fame beginning Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend. From the Hall:<\/p>\n Monday will be honored at the July 25\u00a0Awards Presentation\u00a0at the Alice Busch Opera Theater at the Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown along with Ford C. Frick Award winner Joe Buck, Baseball Writers\u2019 Association of America Career Excellence Award winner Paul Hoynes and Buck O\u2019Neil Lifetime Achievement Award winner Bill White.<\/p>\n The Dodgers<\/a>\u2019 series against the Giants in San Francisco<\/a> had an old school feel to it, with the Giants taking issue with catcher Dalton Rushing<\/a>\u2019s apparent comments after a play at the plate involving Jung Hoo Lee<\/a>, then Rushing getting hit by a Logan Webb<\/a> pitch on Thursday followed by Rushing sliding hard into second base. Katie Woo and Andrew Baggarly at The Athletic rounded up the reaction from both sides after Thursday\u2019s game<\/a>.<\/p>\n Mark Washington was drafted by the Dodgers in 2017 in the 25th round<\/a>, a round that no longer exists, and pitched seven professional seasons in the minors and independent leagues, getting as high as Triple-A. He retired as a pitcher after last season and joined the Dodgers player development as a junior area scout. Washington talked to J.P. Hoornstra about the transition<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cPlayer evaluation wasn\u2019t something I really thought about,\u201d Washington said in a telephone interview with\u00a0Dodgers On SI\u00a0this week. \u201cThe Dodgers \u2014 I was there for seven years. It\u2019s just awesome, like a full-circle moment, where the team that drafted me, I\u2019m now employed by them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dodgers broadcaster Rick Monday will be honored at the National Baseball Hall of Fame this summer during induction…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2406],"tags":[54822,86326,5,24,10900,39,19201,375,1165,4332,4333,112,774,57,3224,4331,86325,4,7791,55780,378],"class_list":["post-682441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-american-flag","tag-american-indians","tag-baseball","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-dalton-rushing","tag-dodgers","tag-dodgers-stadium","tag-jung-hoo-lee","tag-la","tag-la-dodgers","tag-ladodgers","tag-logan-webb","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesdodgers","tag-mark-washington","tag-mlb","tag-national-baseball-hall-of-fame","tag-rick-monday","tag-san-francisco"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116465416499404032","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682441","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=682441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}