Vin Scully's Call of Donald Drysdale Shut Out Game| May 31, 1968| Dodger Stadium
Vin Scully's Call of Donald Drysdale Shut Out Game | May 31, 1968 | Dodger Stadium
“It’s the ninth inning at Dodger Stadium; it’s May 31st, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight, and a boy named Donald Scott Drysdale, born in Van Nuys, who had his ears blistered and his skin roasted many times from the boos he heard at the Coliseum, had received a standing ovation before 46, 000 as he goes to the mound to go after a record that has stood in the books for 63 years. He has four consecutive shutouts; he had 8 blanks tonight, that gives him 44 pearls on a string. He needs one more and he’s facing one of the toughest hitters he has ever faced, Willie McCovey to lead it off.”
0 and 2, the count to Manny. Drysdale, head down, thinking over the pitches. Lips it down, looks in to Haller. Strike to pitch to the pinch hitter Manny Jimenez. Half swing, strike three. It gets away from Haller. He picks it up, takes dead aim, and gets him at first. One away in the ninth inning and the batter is Matty Alou. And the Dodger bench begins to show a little strain.