I was reading this MLB article:
Hear Vin Scully’s Most Legendary CallsHere are Scully's top 20 calls from 67 years in the booth, as voted upon by Dodgers fans.https://www.mlb.com/news/vin-scully-greatest-callsIn 2016, the year he would be retiring, fans voted on Vin Scully's most legendary calls for the Dodgers in his 67 seasons doing so! I looked down the list to find that I was at two of these games that are featured on this list!
Sixty-seven seasons of games to choose Vin's legendary calls from and I got to see two of them. Ironically, that means that during these games I did NOT hear Vin Scully broadcasting them! So it was a treat to revisit these. I was with my friend Mark Thomson, whom I went to many games a year with for quite a long span of years. (Lost to cancer in 2018.) One of these games was a birthday gift to him from me and we attended on September 18, 2006, the day after his birthday. The other game his brother was visiting from Britain, and came with us that day and, because his brother was visiting, we took photos that day, May 22, 1999. (I also remember going to the game on 9/9/99 that year.)
Call #15: Dodgers hit four straight homers in the ninth, Nomar Garciaparra's 10th-inning homer wins it!
https://www.mlb.com/video/vin-scully-top-20-15-4-1-hrs-c1099594883Call #20: Big Mac crushes a homer completely out of Dodger Stadium in 1999.
https://www.mlb.com/video/vin-scully-top-20-20-mcgwire-c1045907783Mark and I had seen the game where Mike Piazza had hit a ball out of the stadium, too. Up until around 2015, we could say (and did!) "Only three players have ever hit the ball completely out of Dodger Stadium and we were there for two of them!"
Willie Stargell of the pirates did it first. Then Piazza (1997) and McGwire (1999). In 2015 Giancarlo Stanton (Marlins, now with Yankees) did it and in 2021 Fernando Tatis, Jr. did it (Padres). So only one Dodger has done it.
