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2024 World Series
The 2024 World Series was the World Series, championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2024 Major League Baseball season, 2024 season. The 120th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (baseball), National League (NL) 2024 National League Championship Series, champion 2024 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Los Angeles Dodgers and the American League (AL) 2024 American League Championship Series, champion 2024 New York Yankees season, New York Yankees. It was the Dodgers' first World Series appearance and win since the 2020 World Series, 2020, their first full-season appearance since 2018 World Series, 2018, and the Yankees' first World Series appearance since 2009 World Series, 2009. The series began on October25 and ended on October30 with the Dodgers winning in five games. Freddie Freeman was named the World Series Most Valuable Player Award, MVP of the series, tying a World Series record with 12 runs batted in (RBIs) and hitt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2024 Los Angeles Dodgers Season
The 2024 Los Angeles Dodgers season was the 135th season for the Los Angeles Dodgers franchise in Major League Baseball (MLB), their 67th season in Los Angeles, California, and their 62nd season playing their home games at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles California. Shohei Ohtani made his Dodgers debut after signing a record 10-year, $700 million contract with the club in the off-season. In his first season, Ohtani became the first player in MLB history to break the 40–40 club #50–50 season, 50 homerun, 50 stolen bases barrier in a single-season. He also surpassed Shawn Green's Dodgers single-season home run record with 54 home runs. The Dodgers broadcast teams suffered losses this season as both Charley Steiner and Fernando Valenzuela battled cancer. Steiner was unable to broadcast any games on the radio during 2024 but announced that his multiple myeloma blood cancer was in remission by the end of the season. Valenzuela, long time Dodgers player and a Spanish language broadc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Fox Deportes
Fox Deportes (formerly Fox Sports en Español) is an American pay television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming in Spanish, aimed at the Hispanic population in the United States. Launched in 1993, Fox Deportes, a division of Fox Sports, is the first and longest-running Spanish-language sports network in the country. Fox Deportes features a diversified programming, including NFL pre- and post-season games, MLB regular-season, All-Star Game, Divisional Series, National League Championship Series and World Series, the USGA's U.S. Open, NASCAR, Premier Boxing Champions, college football and soccer competitions including Liga MX and MLS. The channel first launched in Southern California as La Cadena Deportiva Prime Ticket, a sister network to the original Prime Ticket regional sports network (the present day Bally Sports West), on November 1, 1993. The network was renamed Prime Deportiva on April 1, 1995, to align with the rebranding of Liberty Media-owne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
TUDN Radio
TUDN Radio (formerly Univision Deportes Radio) is a U.S. Spanish-language sports radio network operated by Uforia Audio Network, a division of TelevisaUnivision (United States), TelevisaUnivision. It launched on March 15, 2017 on ten AM broadcasting, AM and FM broadcasting, FM radio stations, most of which previously affiliated with the ill-fated Univision America until its 2015 closure. The network features stations in the states of California, Texas, Illinois, Nevada, New York (state), New York and Florida, covering half of the country's Hispanic population. While its main focus is on Association football, soccer, Univision Deportes Radio competed against ESPN Deportes Radio, owned by ESPN Inc., until 2019 which had 40 stations in 14 states. On July 20, 2019, the network was renamed TUDN Radio, as part of a wider multi-platform relaunch of the Univision Deportes division as TUDN (brand), TUDN, in partnership with Televisa. With the September 2019 discontinuation of ESPN Depor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Major League Baseball On ESPN Radio
''Major League Baseball on ESPN Radio'' is the brand name for exclusive play-by-play broadcast presentation of Major League Baseball on ESPN Radio. The coverage has most recently been presented by Indeed, along with AutoZone for the postseason; previous presenting sponsors included Wendy's, Barbasol, Nesquik, DraftKings, Xerox, AutoZone, Excedrin, United States Postal Service and Mercedes-Benz. History In 1997, ESPN Radio outbid CBS Radio to become the exclusive national radio broadcaster of Major League Baseball beginning the following year. CBS Radio had been the national radio broadcaster since 1976. The agreement lasted seven years through 2004 and gave ESPN Radio the rights to broadcast numerous games including '' Sunday Night Baseball'', Saturday '' Game of the Week'', Opening Day and holiday games, September weekday pennant race games, the All-Star Game and Home Run Derby, and all of the playoffs, including the World Series. In 2004, ESPN Radio extended the de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ryan Spilborghs
Ryan Adam Rene Jean Spilborghs (born September 5, 1979) is an American baseball broadcaster for ROCKIES.TV & SiriusXM's MLB Network Radio, and a former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Colorado Rockies and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Saitama Seibu Lions. Baseball career College Spilborghs played college ball at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was all Big West Conference in 2001. He also played for the Madison Mallards during the summer of 2001. Colorado Rockies Spilborghs was drafted by the Colorado Rockies in the 7th round of the 2002 MLB Draft. Between 2002 and 2005, he played for the Tri-City Dust Devils, Asheville Tourists, Visalia Oaks, and Tulsa Drillers. He made his Major League debut for the Rockies on July 16, 2005, against the Cincinnati Reds and recorded his first hit in that game, a single to right field off of Todd Coffey. That was the only game he played in for the Rockies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Dave Flemming
David Braxton Flemming (born May 31, 1976) is an American sportscaster who has been a play-by-play announcer for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball since 2003. Flemming also calls college football, college basketball, major league baseball, and golf on ESPN, as well as the World Series, MLB All-Star Game and World Baseball Classic for MLB International. Flemming grew up in Alexandria, Virginia, listening to current Giants partner Jon Miller call Baltimore Orioles games. In 2004, Flemming began his first full year as an announcer for the team, working with Miller, Duane Kuiper and Mike Krukow on San Francisco station KNBR and the Giants Radio Network. Since then, he has split time between television on NBC Sports Bay Area and radio on KNBR. Early life and career After graduating from St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School in 1994, Flemming received bachelor's and master's degrees in classics from Stanford University and a master's degree in broadcast journalism ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Nelson Cruz
Nelson Ramón Cruz Martínez (born July 1, 1980), nicknamed "Boomstick", is a Dominican-American former professional baseball designated hitter and right fielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee Brewers, Texas Rangers (baseball), Texas Rangers, Baltimore Orioles, Seattle Mariners, Minnesota Twins, Tampa Bay Rays, Washington Nationals, and San Diego Padres. Cruz is a seven-time Major League Baseball All-Star Game, MLB All-Star. Known for his power hitting, he has won four Silver Slugger Awards and two Edgar Martínez Awards. After signing with the New York Mets organization in 1998, Cruz played his first major league game in 2005 with the Milwaukee Brewers. He had a breakthrough season in 2009, hitting 33 home runs for the Texas Rangers. Cruz played for the Rangers in the World Series in 2010 and 2011 and was named the League Championship Series Most Valuable Player Award, Most Valuable Player of the 2011 American League Championship Series. On August ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Edgar Gonzalez (infielder)
Edgar Gonzalez (born June 14, 1978) is an American former professional baseball second baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yomiuri Giants. Professional career Tampa Bay Devil Rays In Gonzalez batted .270 with seven doubles, seven triples, 16 RBIs and nine stolen bases in a combined 61 games with the Rookie-Level Princeton Devil Rays and the short-season Hudson Valley Renegades. Gonzalez led the New York–Penn League in in total bases with 146, and hits with 92. He was second in batting average and games, third in slugging percentage, fourth in runs and extra-base hits and fifth in doubles. He played 73 games in '01. He played a career-high 134 games with the Class-A Charleston RiverDogs in . 128 of those games at third base with just one game played at second base. He finished the season hitting .275 with 123 hits, 28 doubles, eight home runs and 62 RBIs in 447 at bats Playin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Adrian Garcia Marquez
Adrian Garcia Marquez (born December 28, 1973) is an American sportscaster who works for Fox Deportes as a play-by-play announcer, narrator, and host. He also serves as one of the international voices of the NBA calling action on the NBA League Pass. Prior to joining Fox and the NBA, he was with the Los Angeles Lakers for 6 seasons serving as the team's Spanish TV play-by-play announcer on Time Warner Cable Deportes later becoming Spectrum Deportes. In his time calling Lakers basketball, he became an Emmy Award-winning announcer while also securing two NBA 'Best Live Call' Awards and 3 straight 'Best TV Play by Play in Spanish' Awards from the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association. He also received two "Call of the Year" nominations from SCSB for 2017 and 2018. In 2017 he was runner-up to the legendary Vin Scully, who upon receiving the award said "I think you gave it to the wrong guy, he (Adrian) should have won!". Before joining the Lakers, Garcia Marquez wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tom Verducci
Thomas Verducci (born October 23, 1960) is an American sportswriter who writes for ''Sports Illustrated'' and its online magazine SI.com. He writes primarily about baseball. He is also a reporter and commentator for Fox Major League Baseball and MLB Network. Early life and education Verducci was born in East Orange, New Jersey, and raised in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Glen Ridge. He attended Seton Hall Preparatory School, Seton Hall Prep in West Orange, New Jersey, and then went to Penn State, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts, B.A. in journalism, where he was a reporter for ''The Daily Collegian'' and appeared in the first edition of ''The Weekly Collegian''. On July 12, 2016, Verducci revealed he was a New York Mets, Mets fan growing up. Writing career After a one-year stint at ''Florida Today'', Verducci moved to ''New York Newsday'' in 1983, becoming a columnist in 1990. He began writing for ''Sports Illustrated'' in 1993. In 2005, while writing for ''Sports Illustrated'', V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ken Rosenthal
Ken Rosenthal (born September 19, 1962) is an American sportswriter and reporter. He has served as a field reporter for '' Fox Major League Baseball'' since 2005, and was an in-studio reporter for MLB Network from 2009 to 2022. Since August 2017, he is a senior baseball writer for ''The Athletic''. Early life Rosenthal was born in Queens, New York City, and grew up in the Long Island town of Oyster Bay, where he went to Oyster Bay High School. Rosenthal is Jewish. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984. Career Beginnings After serving as an intern covering sports for ''Newsday'' on Long Island, Rosenthal began his career at the '' York Daily Record'' in 1984. He moved on to the ''Courier-Post'' in Cherry Hill, New Jersey for two years before landing a full-time job with The '' Baltimore Sun'', where he was named Maryland Sportswriter of the Year five times by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association during his tenure from 1987 to 2000. Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
John Smoltz
John Andrew Smoltz (born May 15, 1967), nicknamed "Smoltzie" and "Marmaduke", is an American former baseball pitcher who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1988 to 2009, all but the last year with the Atlanta Braves. An eight-time Major League Baseball All-Star Game, All-Star, Smoltz was part of a Big Three (Atlanta Braves), celebrated trio of starting pitchers, along with Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine, who propelled Atlanta to perennial pennant contention in the 1990s, highlighted by a championship in the 1995 World Series. He won the National League (baseball), National League (NL) Cy Young Award in 1996 after posting a win–loss record (pitching), record of 24–8, equaling the most victories by an NL pitcher since 1972. He also played for the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals. Though predominantly known as a starter, Smoltz was converted to a relief pitcher, reliever in 2001 after his recovery from Tommy John surgery, and spent four years as the team's clo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
