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NOT READY FOR RETIREMENT — Week 5 of college football and Week 4 of the NFL had a lot of highlights.
But two of Major League Baseball's best gave an emotional farewell Sunday: legendary Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully and Boston slugger David Ortiz.
Here are those tributes.
Vin Scully bids us all one more great afternoon
We already knew the legendary Dodgers broadcaster was done; he called his final game in Los Angeles a week ago.
Now Vin Scully is formally retired. But not before he gave us one last signoff (warning: do not click play if you want to keep your emotions in check).
Scully has been the voice of the Dodgers for 67 years, and he grew up a fan of Los Angeles’ final opponent, the Giants, as a youngster in the Bronx. He will not call Los Angeles baseball during the postseason, though the Dodgers aren’t quite done yet. They’ll play Friday at Washington in the National League Division Series, but will be without the longest tenured member of their team.Of course Scully didn’t leave baseball fans without one unlikely play call. On Friday night, he spelled out this gem: Angel Pagan tackled a field-rushing fan on the final day of his career.
Farewell, friend. Dodgers fan or not, Scully will be missed.Cheers and tears for Big Papi
Scully wasn’t the only MLB star to go out Sunday. Boston slugger David Ortiz gave a gracious farewell to the regular season before the Red Sox’s 2-1 loss to Toronto at Fenway Park, and Boston responded by retiring his jersey number, donating $500,000 to the player’s charity, and naming a bridge after him.
But the best moment was Ortiz’s farewell speech to the fans before the game.
Poor Rickie
On a lighter note, the United States beat Europe in this weekend’s Ryder Cup for the first time since 2008 with a 17-11 win at Hazeltine — the largest rout by the Americans since 1981. With that kind of a streak broken, there was plenty of partying by the United States’ best golfers in Minnesota.
But that part wasn’t all fun and games for everybody, either. Rickie Fowler looked a little left out in the post-match team photo featuring the team’s wives and girlfriends.
Don’t feel too bad for Fowler; he won his individual match, and helped the Americans capture the first two points of the annual match-play event.
