The legendary broadcaster says he won’t be calling any playoff games this year, and his astonishing 67-year career with the team will wrap up at the end of the regular season October 2.
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What we have on the final day of the 2016 season is a certainty: it is the last time Vin Scully will call a baseball game, and the network of the sport needs to pick up the final broadcast of the longtime voice of baseball. With a four-game lead on the Giants in the division it appears a good bet they’ll get there too.
“Otherwise, I’d be saying goodbye like in grand opera, where you say goodbye 12 different times”, Scully told the Times.
The Dodgers, who now hold a four-game lead over the Giants in the NL West, hope to send Scully off with a fourth consecutive division title.
Scully, a titan in the sportscasting world, is in the final weeks of his 67th and last season calling Dodger games. I will say goodbye in San Francisco. “And then that will be it”.
Scully has two farewells coming up: First, on September 25 during the Dodgers’ final home game of the regular season and then a week later at San Francisco. He said he would work all three games of the weekend series in San Francisco.
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Despite some light pressure from Fox executives and popular demand among baseball fans, Scully is choosing to end his legendary broadcasting career on his terms. As he walked home from school one afternoon, at age 8, he passed a laundry that displayed the score of that day’s World Series game: New York Yankees 18, New York Giants 4. “From that little kernel, I developed a desire and a love for baseball”.
