RIP Tim McCarver

[Lhalo]

81 Years old.

 

[Lhalo]

I thought he wandered too much when he was on the mic announcing games but he had some great interviews.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

McCarver was one of my early childhood heroes in baseball. My father was a huge Cardinals fan, and the first World Series that I watched was 1964, Cardinals-Yankees. McCarver won Game 5 in New York with a three-run homer in the top of the tenth. McCarver batted .478 in the series, with a double, triple and home run among his 11 hits. I was bummed when he was traded to the Phillies. As a broadcaster he was a bit polarizing, and sometimes his drop-ins were redundant or meaningless, but overall he did a decent job. Another piece of my past gone. RIP.

Edited February 16, 2023 by Vegas Halo Fan

[fan_since79]

McCarver called Spiezio's home run in Game 6 in that epic at-bat. He kept getting pitches off the plate and fouling them off, then McCarver said "Down and in and it's 5-3"  Then the pitch came down and in.

[Redondo]

RIP Tim

[Tank]

i know he rubbed a number of people the wrong way, but i never had issues with his broadcasting. i thought he was insightful.

[Tank]

2 hours ago, fan_since79 said:

McCarver called Spiezio's home run in Game 6 in that epic at-bat. He kept getting pitches off the plate and fouling them off, then McCarver said "Down and in and it's 5-3"  Then the pitch came down and in.

he did the same exact thing for luis gonzalez's series winning hit of rivera in game 7 the year before.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

5 hours ago, fan_since79 said:

McCarver called Spiezio's home run in Game 6 in that epic at-bat. He kept getting pitches off the plate and fouling them off, then McCarver said "Down and in and it's 5-3"  Then the pitch came down and in.

He also pretty much called Luis Gonzalez's game winning RBI single for Arizona off Mariano Rivera in the 2001 World Series. He talked about left handed hitters hitting broken bat bloopers to left off Rivera, and that is almost exactly what happened on the next pitch. Just high enough to clear Derek Jeter's glove.

Edited February 17, 2023 by Vegas Halo Fan

[HanfordGuy]

 

[fan_since79]

1 hour ago, Vegas Halo Fan said:

He also pretty much called Luis Gonzalez's game winning RBI single for Arizona off Mariano Rivera in the 2001 World Series. He talked about left handed hitters hitting broken bat bloopers to left off Rivera, and that is almost exactly what happened on the next pitch. Just high enough to clear Derek Jeter's glove.

Amazing!

[fan_since79]

 

[Vegas Halo Fan]

45 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

 

One thing that I didn't know until now. McCarver signed with the Cardinals when he was 17, and he was only 22 when he hit that game winning home run in the 1964 World Series.

[Tank]

5 hours ago, Vegas Halo Fan said:

He also pretty much called Luis Gonzalez's game winning RBI single for Arizona off Mariano Rivera in the 2001 World Series. He talked about left handed hitters hitting broken bat bloopers to left off Rivera, and that is almost exactly what happened on the next pitch. Just high enough to clear Derek Jeter's glove.

 

9 hours ago, Tank said:

he did the same exact thing for luis gonzalez's series winning hit of rivera in game 7 the year before.

why hello there.

you gave better details than me, so i'll let it slide.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

10 hours ago, Tank said:

 

why hello there.

you gave better details than me, so i'll let it slide.

I didn't see your post before I posted mine.