I don't think there's a better baseball experience than listening or watching a Dodgers telecast. Vin Scully solos on radio for three innings, and then switches to tv for the middle three, before moving back. Charlie Steiner and Rick Monday do t.v. and then radio. It helps that the Dodgers have an exciting young team.
There's so much experience on the broacast crew. To a young listener, the broadcasters are probably a little corny, and not hip enough. But they are classic baseball old school broadcasts. It's worth listening to a Dodger game on radio, even when t.v. is available.
The camera crew is experienced too. Tonight was a good example.
Blake DeWitt hit his first major league home run. The camera was poised in the dugout to capture this:
DeWitt enters the dugout taking off his helmet. His teammates do not meet him at the steps. They are uniformly sitting on the bench, looking out at the ball field, as if nothing happened. DeWitt is like a man on an island. DeWitt puts his bat in the rack. He sort of hangs his head. Can't decide what to do with the helmet. Then, when he decides to take it off, the Dodger bench explodes towards him, patting him on the back, hugging him, wrestling him around, etc. The silent treatment, and then the celebration for a kid's first MLB homer. Then the fans gave him a curtain call.
That's a great baseball moment...the kind of thing that made you want to play as a kid, and made me read box scores every morning. And good broadcasting to know that was coming.
