Vin Scully Day on MLB Network today
LOS ANGELES -- MLB Network is providing something we all need: A Scully-a-thon.
It will air on Monday, featuring several Dodgers games with Hall of Famer Vin Scully at the mic and capped by the debut of a new MLB Network series, “The Sounds of Baseball,” with Scully in the leadoff spotlight.
“The Sounds of Baseball” will be co-hosted by MLB Network’s Hall of Famer Bob Costas and Tom Verducci, who wrote Sports Illustrated’s cover story when Scully retired in 2016. Each episode will focus on one baseball broadcaster, with Scully’s episode airing Monday at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT, 52 years to the day that Scully called Dodgers Hall of Fame pitcher Don Drysdale breaking Hall of Famer Walter Johnson’s consecutive scoreless innings streak in 1968. The two hour program will re-air at 12 a.m. ET/9 p.m. PT.
“So much of baseball history is best remembered by the way great broadcasters described those moments,” said Costas. “No broadcaster called as many of those moments as Vin Scully. So it's fitting that the first of our series of broadcaster appreciations will be devoted to Vin and many of his finest broadcasts.”
Scully’s calls of perfect games by Sandy Koufax and Don Larsen will be included, as well as his call of Hank Aaron’s record-breaking 715th home run in 1974. Costas and Verducci will share anecdotes, personal stories, and their thoughts on the impact each broadcaster has had on baseball and generations of fans.
“Vin Scully is a unique American treasure who combines the storytelling wit of Twain and the trustworthiness of [Walter] Cronkite,” said Verducci. “Listening to him perfectly lay down the soundtrack to so much baseball history in real time is, and forever will be, amazing.”
Preceding the airing of “The Sounds of Baseball,” MLB Network will re-broadcast four Dodgers games, the final three with Scully in the booth -- Hideo Nomo’s no-hitter at Coors Field on Sept. 17, 1996, at noon ET/9 a.m. PT; Game 6 of the 1985 National League Championship Series against St. Louis (the Jack Clark home run) at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT; and Clayton Kershaw’s no-hitter against the Rockies on June 18, 2014, at 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT. The first game to be rebroadcast on Monday will be Game 3 of the 1996 NL Division Series between the Dodgers and Braves, which Scully did not work, at 8 a.m. ET/5 a.m. PT.