Vin Scully calls Koufax perfect game

Vin Scully calls the last three outs of the perfect game pitched by Dodger Sandy Koufax on Sept. 9, 1965, at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles.

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• Vin Scully
• dodgers
• sandy koufax
• koufax
• pitcher
• perfect game
• No-hitter
• baseball
• dodger stadium

[srd515]

So true. There's is/was something magical about hearing Vinny on the radio on a Sunday afternoon in the back yard. You knew you were communing with thousands of other backyard grillers, beer-drinkers, etc. at that moment. That voice is the voice of summer.

[arthurkaliel]

I was 13 listening to this on my little transistor radio and after the last out I screamed and my parents ran in my bedroom and thought I was dead..

[srd515]

@arthurkaliel glad i could helped jog that memory. That's classic. Thanks!

[2005dave]

I'm a Mets fan, but I love Vin Scully. This is one of the most elegant calls ever by a sportscaster, encompassing the excitement of the perfect game without resorting to homerism. Koufax was a special pitcher. Scully, a special broadcaster. He is the man. He is the legend. He's coming back in '11. Bless him. Not only thank you for posting this but thanks also for the soundbite at the end of Vin explaining why he timestamped his calls.

[srd515]

@2005dave hey thanks. I found the audio years ago, so whoever posted that deserves the thanks. I just quickly threw together a montage and am glad so many seem to be enjoying it. I never fail to get goose bumps listening to this.

[bluepastry]

i remember listening to this in NYC

[BOBBYDANGERS808]

D O D G E R S....BABY!

[dodgerglory34]

Check out my website: dodgerglory. It's got lots of classic Vin radio calls from the late '70s/early '80s.

[dodgerglory34]

Never gets old!

[observer9670]

@sabreyow No, Dogget would call innings 3-6 when the game was only on radio. When it was on local TV, Scully would do innings 1,2, 3, 7,8 and 9 for TV, 4,5 and 6 for radio with Doggett doing the rest. To this day, Vin has worked alone for Dodger games, although he has had a "color comentator" (Joe Gargiola and Tom Seaver) when he did NBC games on TV and later when he did the World Series for CBS Radio in the 1990's.

[sabreyow]

@observer9670 wasnt jerry doggett the color guy?

[sabreyow]

@2005dave i feel the same as you..i grew up a diehard met fan in the 70's with murphy/nelson/kiner but we moved from ny to the west coast when i was 13 and i got to listen to vin scully for years..those 4 guys to me are the epitome of baseball broadcasters

[g77enn1]

I, a Giant fan, was listening with my Philco transistor radio, hoping Harvey Kuenn, former batting champ, would ruin the perfect game. Koufax was the greatest and a real gentleman.

[Slickster52]

Some of the sweetest memories of my entire life areIof being a young man, coming home from work, and sitting out in the yard on warm summer evenings listening to Scully call a Dodger game. Those were the salad days, when the grand old game was bigger than life and each play and every player was a story waiting to be told. And nobody told those stories better than Vin Scully.

[elvispresley718]

as a cardinal fan i'm very happy that sandy pitched his perfect game against the cubs