Dodgers to pay tribute to Vin Scully Tuesday night
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Dodgers will pay tribute to Vin Scully before Tuesday evening's game against the New York Mets, coinciding with the 73rd anniversary of the first regular-season game he broadcast.
A tribute video will be played, members of the late Dodger broadcaster's family will throw the ceremonial first pitch and the first 40,000 fans in attendance will receive a Vin Scully jersey.
Scully's first regular-season game was on April 18, 1950, when the then-Brooklyn Dodgers faced the Phillies at Philadelphia's Shibe Park.
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"Don Newcombe was going to be our pitcher," Scully said on a news conference Sept. 24, 2016, one day before the final game he broadcast at Dodger Stadium.
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"Red Barber assigned me to do the fourth inning. They didn't trust me more than one inning. I understand that.
"My first game, Newcombe didn't make it to the fourth inning. That's all I really remember, plus the fact I was terrified."