Dodgers broadcast crew expected to travel for away games in 2022

Jaime Jarrín, “the Spanish voice of the Dodgers” and one of the most recognizable voices in all of sports broadcasting, has been calling Dodger games since 1959, entering his 63rd season with the club in 2021. In 2018, the Hall of Famer became just the 12th Dodger to be added to the club’south Ring of Honor, joining other franchise icons in having his name permanently affixed to Dodger Stadium.

Jarrín has called three perfect games (Sandy Koufax in 1965, Tom Browning in 1988 and Dennis Martinez in 1991) and 22 no-hitters, 30 Earth Series and 30 All-Star games during his decorated career. In 1998, he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY as the recipient of the Ford C. Frick Accolade and became only the second Spanish-language announcer to achieve that accolade, joining Buck Canel. In the 2005 volume “Voices of Summer,” Jarrín was named as baseball’due south all-time best Spanish-linguistic communication broadcaster.

The Quito, Ecuador native began working for HCJB in his habitation country when he was 16 years old and went on to become the announcer for the National Congress of Ecuador, while studying philosophy, letters, journalism and broadcasting at Central University of Ecuador in Quito. Following his graduation, Jarrín hoped to continue his broadcasting career in the United States, arriving on June 24, 1955, and at the time, he had never seen a baseball. His starting time experience with baseball was watching the Dodgers on a televised broadcast of the 1955 World Series against the Yankees, and he soon began attending minor league games in Los Angeles at Gilmore Field and Wrigley Field to learn the game. Jarrín was hired as an announcer at KWKW and before long afterwards, the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles. Jarrin was given one yr to set to become a baseball game broadcaster by William Beaton, the station manager at KWKW.

During his offset six years with the Dodgers, Jarrín and his partner would recreate games in the studio while listening to the English radio circulate. Starting in 1965, Jarrín took the Dodgers’ Spanish-language radio broadcast on the road, making every stop with the Dodgers, and rose to become the club’southward No. i Spanish-linguistic communication broadcaster in 1973. From 1962-84, Jarrín called about iv,000 games – spanning 22 seasons – without missing a competition, earlier the streak was cleaved in 1984, when he took accuse of all the Castilian-language radio coverage and production for the Los Angeles Olympic Games. On August 23, 2009, Jarrín once again fabricated history and served every bit the play-by-play announcer in the offset-ever regular season, dedicated, Spanish-language telecast of a Dodger game. From 2015-2020, Jaime called games aslope his son Jorge, with the duo forming the only male parent-son broadcasting team in MLB Spanish-linguistic communication radio.

Jarrín also worked on international news broadcasts including the funeral of President John F. Kennedy, Pope John Paul II’due south visit to the U.S. and several meetings between foreign leaders and Presidents Richard Nixon and Lyndon B. Johnson. He has called more than than 30 world championship boxing title bouts for radio and TV stations in Latin America including the Thrilla in Manila between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.

Jarrin received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame – dedicated in September 1998 – and is a member of both the California Broadcasters’ Association Halls of Fame and the Southern California Sports Broadcasters’ Association, which awarded him the organization’southward Vin Scully Lifetime Achievement Honor in 2019. His other major honors include La Gran Cruz al Merito en El Grado de Comendador received in Ecuador in January 1992, being honored past the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) Foundation with an AFTRA Media and Entertainment Excellence Honour in 2011 and earning Hall of Fame recognition past the Associated Press Boob tube-Radio Association (APTRA) in 2011. This past January, Jarrín was featured in the 2020 Rose Parade equally an honored guest of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses, embodying the theme of “The Power of Promise.”

Jarrín resides in San Marino and has two sons, Mauricio and Jorge. In memory of his tardily married woman, Blanca, who passed away in 2019, the Jarrín Family launched The Jaime and Blanca Jarrín Foundation, which serves and supports charitable, educational and able-bodied programs in the Los Angeles expanse as well every bit internationally.

Joe Davis enters his 6th year every bit a member of the Dodger broadcast team on SportsNet LA. Davis, 33, has been calling play-past-play on Fox Sports’ national coverage of pro and higher football, Major League Baseball and college basketball since 2014 and continues to do then while in his role with the Dodgers.

Davis attended Beloit (Wis.) College, where he was a 4-year letter winner and ii-fourth dimension helm of the school’south football team, as well as earning a B.A. degree in communications with a pocket-sized in journalism. During the football off-seasons, Davis causeless play-past-play duties for the school’due south athletic department, announcing baseball and men’s and women’south basketball games on local radio and tv set and served as the vocalism of Buccaneer bound sports for his terminal three years on campus before graduating in 2010.

Prior to his senior year of college, Davis secured a summer task with the Schaumburg Flyers baseball team of the independent Northern League, serving as the team’s play-by-play voice and media relations manager. He then moved on to the Montgomery (Ala.) Biscuits, the Double-A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays, and was named Southern League Broadcaster of the Year in 2012. While in Montgomery, Davis likewise worked for the Baylor Independent Sports Properties Network and Comcast Sports Southeast, where he chosen play-by-play for college football, basketball and baseball.

In July 2012, Davis fabricated the leap to national television at the age of 24, joining ESPN as an announcer for college baseball, basketball, football, hockey and softball and also appeared in spot duty for Major League Baseball on

ESPN radio.

Davis resides in South Pasadena with his wife Libby, daughter Charlotte and son Blake.

Dodger great and Emmy Honor-winning broadcaster Orel Hershiser enters his 8th flavor as a color commentator and analyst for the Dodgers on SportsNet LA.

Hershiser, who has been recognized by the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association for his work every bit an analyst on both the game broadcast and the Dodgers’ pre and post game telecasts, previously was behind the microphone at ESPN from 2006-13 every bit a colour analyst for their Baseball This night, Sunday Night Baseball, College World Serial and Trivial League Globe Series programming.

The three-fourth dimension All-Star right-hander played 18 seasons in the Majors, including thirteen with the Dodgers, who he helped atomic number 82 to a 1988 World Championship. That year, Hershiser led the National League in wins (23), innings (267), shutouts (8) and complete games (15) en route to a Cy Immature Honor, and set the all-time marking with a record 59 consecutive scoreless innings (Aug. 30-Sept. 28). He established his place in Dodger lore with a dominant 1988 Postseason, when he earned both NLCS and Earth Series MVP honors, and became the only histrion in history to win those honors in add-on to the Cy Young Award in the aforementioned flavor. He afterward received both The Sporting News Pitcher of the Yr and Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year awards for his brilliant 1988 season.

Hershiser attended and played baseball at Bowling Green (OH) Land University and was drafted in the 17th round by the Dodgers in the 1979 Major League First-Twelvemonth Thespian Draft. It was during a game in his rookie year of 1984, that Hershiser was nicknamed “Bulldog” in an endeavour past Dodgers Hall of Fame manager Tommy Lasorda to get Hershiser to adopt a tougher attitude on the mound.

After finishing his playing career with the Dodgers in 2000 and briefly working for the team, he joined the Rangers every bit a special banana to Full general Managing director John Hart in the fall of 2001. He was named the Rangers’ pitching coach in 2002 and after the 2005 flavour he became Executive Director of the Rangers.

He has co-authored or authored two books: Out of the Blue and Between the Lines: Nine Things Baseball Taught Me About Life. Hershiser has two sons, Quinton and Jordan, and two stepchildren, Spencer and Sloane. He and his married woman Dana reside in Las Vegas.

Kirsten Watson joins the Dodger broadcast team as a reporter and host, where she volition contribute to SportsNet LA’s game broadcasts and studio programming every bit well as pre- and postgame coverage on both television and radio.

Watson previously spent two years as a reporter and host with Spectrum SportsNet, actualization on pre-, post- and in-game broadcasts of the Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Sparks and Due south Bay Lakers while also co-hosting the network’s Lakeshow studio programme. She also currently serves equally a producer for the National Football League, creating localized content for international markets, hosting its Game Recognize Game series and organizing international trips for NFL players for content and media opportunities to aid grow the game globally. Watson besides hosted Mon Nighttime Football game on Channel 5 in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, an international circulate in partnership with NFL Network.

Following the completion of her Master’s degree in circulate from Columbia Journalism School, Watson was awarded the Stuart Scott Internship-Scholarship from the National Association of Black Journalists and ESPN, where she produced video packages for SportsCenter and NFL Live. Watson besides earned her Bachelor’s degree from Columbia and was a member of the school’s volleyball team.

Former Dodger outfielder and two-time Major League All-Star, Rick Monday is in his 28th flavor as a Dodger broadcaster and 36th season overall with the organization, including eight as a player.

Monday, who joined the Dodgers’ broadcast squad in 1993, began his broadcasting career as a sports anchor on KTTV in Los Angeles in 1985, while besides calling play-past-play and hosting the pregame show for Dodger games on DodgerVision and Z Aqueduct. He was nominated for an Emmy as host of the Dodgers’ pregame show on KTTV’s “Dodger Fundamental” in 1988 and he earned an Emmy for Live Sports Coverage in 2001. Monday has also called games for the College World Series and the Padres.

A star at Arizona State Academy, Monday led the Sun Devils to the 1965 College World Series Championship and earned All-American and College Histrion of the Twelvemonth honors before the Kansas Urban center Athletics made him the first player ever selected in the Major League Kickoff-Year Player Draft in 1965. He was inducted into the ASU Hall of Fame in 1975 and the College Baseball Hall of Fame in 2016.

Monday made his Major League debut in 1966 and, after spending six seasons with the Athletics and v seasons with the Cubs, Monday came to the Dodgers as part of a five-thespian trade in 1977. He played eight seasons in L.A., and propelled the Dodgers to the 1981 Earth Series with a dramatic, game-winning home run in the winner-accept-all Game 5 of the NLCS at Montreal. Overall, Monday compiled a .264 career batting boilerplate with 241 home runs and 775 RBI in 19 big-league seasons, while helping the Dodgers win a World Championship in 1981 and iii NL pennants (1977, 1978, 1981).

Monday and his wife, Barbaralee, who make regular visits to various veteran’s hospitals throughout the twelvemonth, reside in Vero Beach during the offseason.

V-time Emmy Award-winner and National Radio Hall of Famer Charley Steiner enters his 17th season equally an announcer for the Dodgers, handling play-by-play duties for the club’s radio circulate on AM 570.

Before joining the Dodgers, Steiner broadcast iii years for the New York Yankees on WCBS Radio and the Aye Network. Prior to his seasons with the Yankees, Steiner spent 14 years at ESPN, where his responsibilities ranged from anchoring SportsCenter to working play-by-play for Major League Baseball and Saturday Primetime Football. He served as SportsCenter’south primary boxing reporter/analyst and also contributed to the Emmy and CableACE Honour-winning Outside the Lines series. Steiner as well called the 2006 and 2013 World Baseball Classics for XM Radio and MLB International, respectively, and broadcast MLB games live from seven different countries.

Steiner graduated from Bradley University, where the School of Sports Communication has been named in his award. Currently there are 120 majors at the Steiner School, in radio and television dissemination, journalism, production, management, ethics, media relations, digital, and sales. Steiner, who was inducted into the Bradley’south Sports Hall of Fame in 1995, too established the Charles H. Steiner Endowed Scholarship, which is given annually to Bradley broadcasting majors.

He began his professional broadcasting career in 1969 at WIRL Radio in Peoria, Illinois as a newscaster, and made career stops in Davenport, New Oasis, Hartford and Cleveland earlier returning to his native New York, where he was the morning sportscaster on WOR radio, while serving equally sports managing director for the RKO Radio Network. In addition, Steiner called the play-by-play for the USFL New Jersey Generals and, later, for the New York Jets on WABC radio.

Fernando Valenzuela, legendary Dodger and 17-year Major League veteran, enters his 19th season as a Dodger broadcaster and will join Jaime Jarrín and Pepe Yñiguez on the Spanish radio and telelvision simulcast.

In 17 big league seasons, Valenzuela compiled a 173-153 record and a 3.54 ERA with the Dodgers, Angels, Orioles, Phillies, Padres and Cardinals, earning 6 All-Star selections and tossing a no-hitter on June 29, 1990 confronting the Cardinals. The Sonora, Mexico native has been inducted to numerous Hall of Fames, including the Hispanic Heritage Baseball game Museum and Caribbean Baseball game Hall of Fame.

Valenzuela was a belatedly-season call-up in 1980, but his legend grew as the Dodgers’ emergency starter on Opening Day, 1981, when he hurled a 2-0 shutout over the Houston Astros. Valenzuela won his first 8 starts that flavor, including v shutouts and a rookie-tape string of 35.0 consecutive scoreless innings, with his improbable success sparking “Fernandomania,” as fans flocked to encounter him pitch – both abode and road – and bamboozle hitters with his signature screwball. Valenzuela, who started the 1981 All-Star Game, became the first player in MLB history to be named Rookie of the Year and win a Cy Young Award in the same flavor, while leading the Dodgers to a World Championship.

Valenzuela supports the club’south community and Latino initiatives, and every bit a result of his continued community involvement, the Reviving Baseball in Innercities Program (RBI) honored him with a Lifetime Achievement in 2007.

Valenzuela and his wife Linda reside in Los Angeles and have 4 children, Ricky, Fernando Jr., Linda and Maria Fernanda.

Pepe Yñiguez will gloat his 25th season equally a Dodger broadcaster after joining the club in 1997, and be reunited with longtime boothmates Jaime Jarrín and Fernando Valenzuela on both Castilian radio and television.

Yñiguez besides previously hosted the Dodgers’ pre and post-game shows, “Hablando con los Dodgers,” in 1993 and covered select Spanish-language dissemination assignments for the club in 1997 earlier joining the team full-time in 1999. Additionally, Yñiguez contributes to the Dodgers’ Latino marketing and radio sales efforts in recording promotional ads for Dodger sponsors that air on Univision America KTNQ 1020 AM.

Starting in 1992, Yñiguez broadcasted numerous events for FOX Sports International, including every Earth Series from 1997-2005. In 1997, he chosen the All-Star Game at Jacobs Field in Cleveland aslope Tito Fuentes and Dennis Martinez. He has likewise broadcasted the annual Caribbean area Series.

From 1993-95, Yñiguez served every bit the color commentator for Los Angeles Raiders broadcasts. During past offseasons, he also hosted “Primal Deportiva,” a weekly sports talk show airing Sunday afternoons, on KWKW in Los Angeles.

Yñiguez resides with his wife Rafaela in La Habra, and has four kids, Edgar, Alenrry, Karissa and Jaquely.

Nomar Garciaparra begins his 8th season behind the microphone for the Dodgers, serving as an annotator for SportsNet LA’s game circulate and pre-and-mail game telecasts.

A native of Whittier, CA, and a graduate of Bellflower’south St. John Bosco High Schoolhouse, Garciaparra played 14 seasons in the Major Leagues with the Reddish Sox, Cubs, Dodgers and A’s, posting a .313 batting average with 229 home runs and 936 RBI. He was the AL Rookie of the Year in 1997; American League batting champion in 1999 and 2000; National League Comeback Histrion of the Year with the Dodgers in 2006; a six-fourth dimension MLB All-Star; and won a Silvery Slugger Award.

Garciaparra attended Georgia Tech and was a start-round pick of the Ruddy Sox in 1994. He fabricated his MLB debut in 1996 and as a rookie with the Red Sox in 1997, Garciaparra hit 30 home runs and had 98 RBI, setting a MLB record for RBI by a leadoff hitter and near homers past a rookie shortstop.

Garciaparra played three seasons with the Dodgers in 2006-08, earning an All-Star selection at first base and helping the team attain the postseason in 2006. After playing with Oakland in 2009, Garciaparra signed a one-day contract with Boston in 2010 to retire as a member of the Red Sox. In 2014, Garciaparra was inducted into both the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame and the Latino Baseball Hall of Fame in the Dominican Commonwealth.

Post-obit the end of his playing career, Garciaparra worked at ESPN, actualization on Baseball This night, MLB game telecasts as well equally the network’due south coverage of the College Globe Serial and the Petty League World Serial from

2011-13.

Garciaparra was a member of the 1992 U.S. Olympic baseball game squad and his wife, Olympian and Earth Loving cup soccer champion Mia Hamm, played on the 1996, 2000 and 2004 women’s Olympic soccer squad. The couple married in 2003, and take twin girls, Grace and Ava, and a son, Garrett. Both Garciaparra and Hamm are among the investors in Major League Soccer’s Los Angeles FC.

Ned Colletti, the former General Manager of the Dodgers, is in his fourth flavour as an analyst on SportsNet LA’s pre- and post-game telecasts.

Colletti became the tenth general manager in Los Angeles Dodgers history when he was hired on Nov 16, 2005, and led to social club to the playoffs in five of his nine seasons from 2006-fourteen. After a 71-91 record in 2005, the Dodgers went to the NL Division Series in Colletti’s commencement season in 2006 and his last flavor in 2014 – and reached the National League Title Serial in 2008, 2009, and 2013. The back-to-dorsum appearances in 2008-09 marked the first time the Dodgers had reached the NLCS in consecutive years since 1977-78.

In his last 21 seasons as an executive, Colletti built or helped to build teams that qualified for the postseason 12 times (with five other teams eliminated in the concluding game or two of the flavour), with a combined tape of 1883-1517 (366 games over .500). Prior to coming to Los Angeles, Colletti was the Banana General Director of the San Francisco Giants for 11 years and spent xiii years with his hometown team, the Chicago Cubs.

Colletti received a regional Emmy Honour in 2016 and has been inducted into the National Italian-American Sports Hall of Fame, the Triton College Sports Hall of Fame and the East Leyden Loftier School Hall of Fame. Besides his duties at SportsNet LA, he is a Professor of Sports Direction at Pepperdine Academy in Malibu and makes regular post-game appearances on Dodgers Talk on 570-AM.

A 16-Year Major League veteran Jerry Hairston enters his third flavor with SportsNet LA, where he serves equally a Dodger studio annotator for the new Boob tube network. Hairston is seen on SportsNet LA’s live studio shows, including “Access SportsNet: Dodgers.” He also contributes to the live pre- and post-game shows nightly, likewise as other SportsNet LA original programming.

Before joining SportsNet LA, Hairston previously worked for ESPN, actualization on “Baseball game This night,” and MLB Network, where he contributed to “MLB Tonight,” “Hot Stove” and other programs.

The third-generation Major Leaguer played his concluding two seasons in Los Angeles and wrapped upwards his career hitting .257 with 70 homers, 420 RBI, 1,126 hits and 233 doubles in 1,442 career games with the Orioles (1998-2004), Cubs (2005-06), Rangers (2006-07), Reds (2008-09), Yankees (2009), Padres (2010), Nationals and Brewers (2011) and Dodgers (2012-13). In 2009, he won a Earth Series ring as a member of the 2009 Yankees and was a .362 career hitter in 17 postseason games.

Hairston, who played every position except for pitcher and catcher in his big league career, is the grandson of former major leaguer Sam Hairston, the son of old Major Leaguer Jerry Hairston, Sr. and the brother of
Scott Hairston, who currently plays for the Washington Nationals. Hairston was originally selected past Baltimore in the 11th round of the 1997 First-Twelvemonth Histrion Draft subsequently earning 2-time All-State honors for Naperville N Loftier School in Illinois and hit .360 over two seasons at Southern Illinois University (1996, ’97). He was later inducted as a member of the Southern Illinois Baseball Hall of Fame.

The 37-year-old lives in Los Angeles and has three kids: Jackson, Kara and Jessica.

John Hartung returns for his third flavor equally SportsNet LA’s primary studio anchor. The veteran Los Angeles sports host anchors the network’s live studio shows, including “Access SportsNet: Dodgers” alive from SportsNet’due south Los Angeles studios each night and also contributes to the network’s original programming.

Hartung joined SNLA in 2013 from KABC-Television in Los Angeles, where he spent the past 11 years as a sports and news ballast. He has worked in sports television for 21 years and is originally from Los Angeles, where he was a member of the Dodgers’ Fan Club as a young male child and went to Taft Loftier School in Woodland Hills. Hartung was at Dodger Stadium for Game 1 of the 1988 World Series and witnessed Kirk Gibson’s game-winning home run.

Hartung graduated from San Diego Land Academy with a BA in Broadcast Journalism and his first on air job was at KFSM-Television set (CBS) in Fayetteville/Fort Smith, Arkansas, where he was the primary sports anchor. Post-obit his stint in Arkansas, he went to KSWB-Idiot box in San Diego and and so spent the last 11 years at KABC-TV in Los Angeles. Hartung anchored both sports and news for KABC-Goggle box.

Hartung has two children and lives in Stevenson Ranch.

Tim Neverett enters his third season as a member of the Dodgers’ broadcast team, and will keep to handle play-by-play duties for a select number of games on both television and radio.

Neverett previously served equally the radio play-by-play voice of the Boston Red Sox for iii seasons (2016-18) following a 7-twelvemonth stint as the radio and television play-by-play journalist for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Before joining the Pirates, Neverett spent four years working for FSN Rocky Mountain, including as a studio host for Colorado Rockies games during the 2008 season. He also served the network every bit a play-past-play announcer for Rockies games, college football, basketball game, hockey, lacrosse, arena football, and track and field. In addition, Neverett hosted talk shows for both the nationally syndicated Sporting News Radio Network and ESPN 560 in Denver, Colorado, where he was named the 2005 Best Radio Sports-Talk Host by Westword magazine. Prior to his time in Denver, Neverett lived in Las Vegas, calling games on radio and TV for the Padres’ and Dodgers’ Triple-A teams every bit well as Las Vegas’ International Hockey League team and the UNLV baseball and football teams. Neverett, who began his broadcasting career in 1985 with Pittsburgh’s Double-A affiliate Nashua, also called baseball, softball, basketball, and soccer as well as hockey and skiing during iv Olympic Games from 2002-2008.

Neverett played higher baseball game at Emerson Higher in Boston, and he and his wife Jessica have 3 sons: Matthew, Kyle and Drew.