Pull Up a Chair....

As I post this, the Los Angeles Dodgers just shut out the SF Giants, 5-0, in Chavez Ravine. Sitting behind the broadcast mike, as usual, was Vin Scully, who started announcing Dodgers games in 1950, when they were still "Da Bums" from Brooklyn. He's now 81 years old, and in the final year of his current contract. He's the longest-serving baseball play by play announcer still with us who has been with the same team his entire career.

He's called a lot of great games, including when the Brooklyn Dodgers won it all in 1955, the 1965 perfect game by Sandy Koufax, Hank Aaron's 715th home run, and many others, but perhaps his most memorable call (and the most heartbreaking, at least here in New England) was this one in 1986, which ended Game 6 of the World Series between the Red Sox and Mets:

"Little roller up along first . . . behind the bag! It gets through Buckner! Here comes Knight and the Mets win it!"

Here's a nice tribute to Vin:

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-scully31mar31,1,3870083.column

And his call of the '65 Sandy masterpiece:

http://www.doubledogmusic.com/baseball/Scully_Koufax_Perfect.mp3