Scott Franzke (born March 6, 1972) is an American sportscaster, best known as the radio
play-by-play voice of the
Philadelphia Phillies
The Philadelphia Phillies are an American professional baseball team based in Philadelphia. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the National League (NL) National League East, East division. Since 2004, the team's home sta ...
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Career
Franzke's career began as a studio host for the now-defunct Prime Sports Radio Network (now Fox Sports Radio) in 1994 which led him three years later to be the host of the
Texas Rangers radio pre- and post-game shows 1997–98. He honed his play-by-play skills as the voice of the
Kane County Cougars from 1999 to 2001, and covered the
2000 Summer Olympics
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for
Sporting News Radio. He returned to the Rangers to reassume the pre and post game broadcasting duties and also filled in on play-by-play from 2002 to 2005.
In 2006, he came to the Phillies to take over those same duties when
Tom McCarthy was hired away from the Phillies by the
New York Mets, their
National League Eastern Division rivals (McCarthy returned to the Phillies broadcasting team in 2008). Franzke worked the fifth and sixth innings in 2006 with
Larry Andersen. In 2007, Franzke assumed more play-by-play duties, replacing
Scott Graham in the broadcast booth, turning over pre- and post-game duties to
Jim Jackson.
In 2008 and the first month of the 2009 season, Franzke called play-by-play in innings 1-3 and 5-9 with Andersen, while
Harry Kalas joined Andersen for play-by-play in the fourth. After the death of Kalas, Franzke assumed play-by-play duties for all nine innings for the remainder of the 2009 season. Until 2020, Franzke called innings 1-3 and 6-9 during home games (with Jackson taking over for innings 4-5) while continuing to call all nine during away games and home games when Jackson was unavailable due to his work as the television play-by-play voice of the
Philadelphia Flyers. Starting in 2021, Franzke once again called all 9 innings for every game.
Memorable calls
Personal life
He is a graduate of
Southern Methodist University (1994) with a journalism degree.
He currently resides in Philadelphia.
References
External links
List of Phillies broadcasters
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1972 births
Living people
American radio sports announcers
Major League Baseball broadcasters
Minor League Baseball broadcasters
People from Dallas
People from Somers Point, New Jersey
Philadelphia Phillies announcers
Southern Methodist University alumni
Texas Rangers (baseball) announcers