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| Vin Scully |
The news was announced in the middle of the second inning of Tuesday night's 8-4 win over the Braves on the Dodger Stadium video board.
"It was pretty cool, actually," manager Don Mattingly said of the announcement, which was staged as a mock news conference with Hyun-Jin Ryu first giving the news in Korean and Yasiel Puig translating it in Spanish before Southern California native Justin Turner delivered the big news in English. "I like the way they did that. I was just hoping the bubble machine would be in there, too, somewhere."
Fans -- the first 40,000 of which received a Vin Scully 65th Anniversary Talking Microphone -- reacted by giving the American sports icon a standing ovation.
"It is very difficult to say goodbye," Scully said in a statement. "God willing I will be back next year. Over the years I have been blessed to have so many friends including those that sit in the stands and listen as well as those at home, who listen and watch. It is just too hard to say goodbye to all these friends. Naturally there will come a time, when I will have to say goodbye, but I've soul-searched and this is not the time."
Scully's 65 years of broadcasting Dodgers games marks the longest tenure in his field. This season Scully, 86, has announced home games and road games in California and Arizona for Time Warner Cable's SportsNet LA. He will reprise the same role in 2015.
Scully began his broadcasting career with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1950 and has since called three perfect games, 25 World Series and 12 All-Star Games. He called the Los Angeles Dodgers' world championships in 1959, '63, '65, '81 and '88.
Scully was honored with the National Baseball Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award 1982.
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