I’ve been getting through this long Wednesday by thinking about baseball and specifically Dodgers baseball. This is probably the third time I’ve tumbl’d the Scully call for this play, but everything about why I love baseball is in this clip.
I remember last year after Manny’s pinch hit grand slam on his own bobble head night there were people trying to rank that up there with this moment. Very few at bats in the history of baseball come close to this one, and lets face it… a lot of that is owed to Mr. Scully. The build up describing Gibson’s injuries, the analysis, the home run call, and then most importantly … the silence. Listening to the crowd go nuts with no commentary what so ever as Gibson limps around the bases and is greeted by his teammates and then… “In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened!” There are many people that could have done what Gibson did, but there is nobody, and I mean NOBODY that could have done it better than Vin. A moment that will never be forgotten by Dodger fans, baseball fans, and especially Eckersley.
