I’ve been watching the Dodgers-Giants game on Comcast Sports Net Bay Area, live from AT&T Park.

I’ve been following the progress of the Pirates-Cardinals game on an iPad via the MLB app.

But mostly I’ve been listening to the Dodgers-Giants game on KLAC AM radio in Los Angeles, via the MLB app on an iPhone 7, with the iPhone more than adequately transubstantiating itself as a transistor radio so that I can wrap myself in the final broadcast of the legendary Vin Scully. At 88 years of age, his voice is still like a river of warm caramel winding through the last 67 years of American baseball history, and this afternoon I’ve been swimming in it.

It was 80 years ago today, to the day, that eight-year-old Vincent Edward Scully saw a box score posted in the window of a neighborhood store in the Bronx: the New York Yankees had beaten the New York Giants 18-4 in Game Two of the 1936 World Series. Scully recalled that moment during today’s broadcast, saying it was the day he fell in love with baseball. October 2 2016 is the day he chose to be the last of his career because of that anniversary.

My game summary for today:

The Giants win and earn themselves a wild card berth in Postseason 2016.

The Dodgers lose and go on to play the Washington Nationals in DC on Friday in the NL Playoffs.

Baseball moves on but its great gentleman and living treasure has called his last out and signed off for the last time.

Mic drop.

Photograph: Dominic DiSaia

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