Listen to Vin Scully's best calls from Clayton Kershaw's no-hitter
Listen to Scully's best calls from Kershaw's no-hitter
During his remarkable 64 years of broadcasting Dodgers games, Vin Scully has somehow called nineteen no-hitters. To equate that to my life, that's like sending one thousand typo-free emails -- an impossible feat.
Thanks to those decades of preparation, along with a poetic sense of cadence and word choice, Scully's broadcast of Kershaw's 15-strikeout no-hitter against the Rockies on Thursday was filled with delicious, quotable gems. (Of course, that's really no different from any game that Scully calls.)
So while we bask the afterglow of Kershaw's dominant performance, let's re-live the experience in the best way possible. Through Vin Scully quotes:
I think it's time that we began petitioning the Library of Congress to award the 2015 United States poet laureate to Vin Scully. He's earned it.