'I will miss this. I will miss this a great deal.' Dan Shulman, 55, will continue calling 35 to 40 college basketball games for ESPN, but no longer baseball, deciding to stay exclusively doing the Toronto Blue Jays for Sportsnet in Canada.
The Houston Astros’ win was the second World Series title in six years and the first time since 2013 that a team claimed the title at its home field.One night, he’s fighting his way through the frenzied crowd in the streets of Houston, through a packed hotel lobby, just to get back to his room with a cold beer after Game 6 of the World Series.
He managed to keep from crying, at least until he was off the air, broadcasting his final Major League Baseball game for ESPN after 24 years. While TV broadcasters for the 29 other Major League teams no longer can broadcast during the postseason, Sportsnet has the rights to do its own playoff broadcasts, meaning Shulman can stay with the Blue Jays through the final out. He really didn’t want to be calling games for ESPN radif the Blue Jays were in the World Series and not broadcasting for his own network.
“I thought I had the best job in the entire world,’’ Shulman says. “My family and friends are all Blue Jays fans, and to be around the teams that won the World Series, and as a young kid to be around Dave Winfield and Jack Morris, it was unbelievable.’’There was Game 6 of the 1993 World Series in Toronto when Shulman was getting into position for his postgame show with Blue Jays losing, 6-5, to the Philadelphia Phillies.
The game was tied 2-2 in the seventh inning when the Rangers scored the go-ahead run in bizarre fashion. Blue Jays catcher Russell Martin’s throw back to the mound with two outs inadvertently hit off Shin-Soo Choo’s bat while standing at the plate. It caromed into foul territory, permitting Rougned Odor to score from third base. The crowd went bonkers.
The World Series event that perhaps caught him most off-guard was Cleveland outfielder Rajai Davis’ dramatic two-run homer in Game 7 of the 2016 World Series. The Chicago Cubs had been cruising the entire game, leading 6-4 with two outs in the eighth. Davis, who had only 55 home runs in his career, and was hitting .132 in the postseason, hit a game-tying, two-run homer off Cubs closer Aroldis Chapman. It was bedlam.
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