For 67 years the Los Angeles Dodgers had the most influential voice in baseball calling games, following them from Brooklyn to the West Coast.
In addition to Vin Scully, the Dodgers organization has a rich history in that regard with Joe Davis and Jaime Jarrín building great career’s in their own right.
Davis’ career with the Dodgers is only getting started in relation to Jarrín’s 64-year tenure with the organization, but both have been named as finalists for the National Sports Media Association’s 2025 Hall of Fame class.
Davis is under consideration for the National Sportscaster of the Year, while Jarrín is in the Hall of Fame Sportscaster category.
Scully was not only the best play-by-play announcer baseball has ever seen, but perhaps one of the best across any sport. The Dodgers’ seamless transition from Scully to Davis in 2017 following the former’s retirement is one that has maybe gone under-appreciated by the baseball community for how difficult of a task it was to pull off.
Whoever the Dodgers chose to replace Scully in the broadcast booth was going to have a nigh impossible task in front of them, but Davis has begun to create a legacy of his own eight seasons into his tenure as the voice of the team.
Jarrín was with the Dodgers almost as long as Scully had been, joining the organization in 1959 following their move to Los Angeles. The Dodgers needed a voice for their new market , and so the Spanish-language broadcast was created. Jarrín was only a contributor for the original broadcast team, but after 14 seasons of work he took over as the Dodgers’ go-to guy.
He never missed a game from 1962 to 1984, calling almost 4,000 games over 22 seasons. Jarrín’s streak was broken only when he was in charge of all Spanish-language radio coverage and production for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Jarrín retired after the 2022 season and is the third-longest tenured member of the Dodgers’ organization, behind only Tommy Lasorda and Scully.
Joe Davis recalled Vin Scully’s advice
Davis began calling World Series games for Fox in 2022 when he took over for Joe Buck. Davis has been on the call for plenty of marquee moments throughout his career with the Dodgers and national broadcasts, but perhaps there was none bigger than Freddie Freeman’s walk-off grand slam in Game 1 of the 2024 World Series.
Davis met the moment beautifully with a timeless call that also managed to poetically pay homage to Scully’s of Kirk Gibson’s walk-off grand slam in 1988. Davis was able to keep his cool in the moment thanks to a piece of advice once given by Scully himself.
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