Phillies Radio Announcer On The World Series & Changes In Baseball

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🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Scott Franzke has been calling MLB games in Philadelphia since 2006. He sizes up the teams headed into the World Series and reflects on upcoming changes designed to put more action in the game.

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0:00.0	Support for this podcast comes from the New Bower Family Foundation, supporting
0:04.7	WHY Wise Fresh Air and its commitment to sharing ideas and encouraging meaningful conversation.
0:11.6	This is Fresh Air.
0:12.8	I'm Dave Davies in For Terry Gross.
0:15.5	The World Series begins tomorrow and we at Fresh Air were excited and a little stunned
0:21.2	along with much of the country to discover that our hometown team, the Philadelphia
0:25.4	Phillies are in the big dance.
0:27.1	They meet the Houston Astros tomorrow night in Houston for game one.
0:31.7	For Phillies fans, the magic moment in the series that got them to the World Series was last
0:36.7	Sunday when the team was trailing the San Diego Padres by a run in the eight inning and the
0:42.0	Phill's marquee player Bryce Harper was up with the runner on.
0:46.6	Two balls, two strikes, a Bryce Harper, Suarez delivers, swing in a drive, left field,
0:52.4	it's deep.
0:53.4	It's going.
0:54.2	Yes.
0:54.2	And it is going.
0:55.2	Yes.
0:55.6	It is.
0:56.6	Bedlam at the bank as Bryce Harper has put the Phillies on top.
1:06.1	Are you kidding me?
1:08.8	His 10th career home run in the postseason and he may never hit a bigger one.
1:17.2	The man with a call there is Phillies radio announcer Scott Franske who broadcasts games
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