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Joe Davis honors Vin Scully with call-up on Freddie Freeman grand slam
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Joe Davis honors Vin Scully with call-up on Freddie Freeman grand slam

Joe Davis honored one of the greatest baseball announcers of all time in the most fitting way on Friday night.

As Freddie Freeman crushed a walk-off grand slam in the bottom of the 10th inning of World Series Game 1 against the Yankees, Fox’s play-by-play man Davis paid tribute to Vin Scully – the former Dodgers and NBC baseball channel.

“Freeman hits a ball, right field – she is…. away! Gibby, meet Freddie! Game 1 of the World Series,” Davis said on the call.

Scully, who mentioned many big World Series moments during his storied career, used the phrase “She’s gone!” when Dodgers star Kirk Gibson crushed the iconic 1988 World Series Game 1 blast against A’s closer Dennis Eckersley.

Freddie Freeman crushed a walk-off grand slam in World Series Game 1. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post

Before the game started, Fox aired a 2010 Scully-voiced feature film that aired on Prime Ticket and was an ode to the rivalry between the Yankees and Dodgers.

With the same team and almost the same spot at Dodger Stadium, the parallels were easy to spot.

Moreover, there was another striking similarity between Freeman and Gibson.

Like Gibson in ’88, Freeman struggled with injury this postseason run, specifically an ankle problem that limited his running ability.

Joe Davis (left) spoke to Fox on Friday evening. DCPI
Vin Scully was a legendary baseball broadcaster. Getty Images

It kept him out of multiple games in both the NLDS and NLCS, but he had a memorable Game 1 with a triple and the walk-off home run off the Yankees’ Nestor Cortes.

The blast was the first-ever walk-off grand slam in the World Series.