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Years Later, Vin Scully Signs Off For Final Time
The San Francisco Giants are headed back to the postseason for the first time since 2014, clinching the final National League wild-card spot Sunday thanks to a 7-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on the last day of the regular season.
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It was relaxed. It was comfortable. Thank you for getting us through trouble times and helping us celebrate good times.
You sent in your memories of Scully, your photos, your stories of your encounters with him, both at Dodger Stadium and in such diverse locations as the Staples store in Agoura Hills, the Gelson’s market in Westlake Village and the Toys “R” Us store in Thousand Oaks. No phony superlatives. No unwarranted hype, hot takes or artificial intensity.
Vin Scully is truly an American Treasure. He didn’t style himself some baseball expert. “If we wouldn’t have gotten to the postseason, this would have been really hard to take, sitting in our position at the All-Star break”.
I started watching the game on TV yesterday afternoon. I’d be in the backyard working, have my radio in the window.
Woodson hit his first career Major League Baseball home run at Dodger stadium against Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan with Scully on the call and remembers with clarity the unforgettable 1988 World Series game one winning home run from Kirk Gibson over the Oakland Athletics in the bottom of the ninth. His apology was wholly unnecessary. The Dodgers were listless and the Giants rolled easily. It’s not that I just want to be on all by myself. I listened as I chopped vegetables and cooked dinner for my family.
“Vin Scully is who I grew up with as a kid, listening to every game”.
In 1953, at age 25, Scully became the youngest person to broadcast a World Series game, a mark that stands today. Scully knows, and has always known, that what happens when there is no action in the game can be just as important as what happens when there is action. Sunday at ATT Park was one of those moments.
Behind eight innings of three-hit ball from southpaw Matt Moore, the Giants topped the Dodgers 7-1 and will face the Mets in NY on Wednesday as the club looks for a third consecutive World Series title in even-numbered years. Listening to Vinny describe the fever and excitement and dominance of Fernando’s starts and his insane screwball will always be a highlight for me. “I didn’t have any sharpness to any of my pitches”, Maeda said through his interpreter.
“Don’t be sad that it’s over”.
I pulled up a chair – a beat-up old beach chair that should have fallen apart years ago.
Vin had a knack for making it seem like he was talking directly to you – he’s not at the ballpark, he’s sitting on the couch or riding in the auto next to you having a conversation. On April 26 of that season, the Dodgers turned a triple play. That was the run.
Moore did not allow a hit until the fourth inning, finishing with just one run allowed on just three hits with two walks and six strikeouts in seven strong innings. One of my lifelong friends, Rollie Seidler, had the good sense to marry Teresa O’Malley, daughter of Walter O’Malley – then-owner of the Dodgers.
On his broadcast, he told stories of the sometimes heated competition, which began when both teams were in NY and carried over when they both moved west.
That was awfully nice. I can recall her admonishing me to turn the radio off, instead I would put the radio underneath my pillow and sneak in another half inning or so before falling asleep with the radio still on.
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Yu Darvish also won 16 games in his first year in 2012, and five other Japanese pitchers earned double-digit wins as rookies – Masahiro Tanaka (13), Hisanori Takahashi (10), Daisuke Matsuzaka (15), Kazuhisa Ishii (14) and Hideo Nomo (13).