Dodgers’ Jaime Jarrín to retire after 2022 season

Jaime Jarrín, the Dodgers’ Spanish-language vigor broadcaster since 1959, has a signature call. It’s lone disposable to those who hold until the precise extremity of a nine-inning shot game, which Jarrín describes arsenic the “u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-ltimo” accidental ― drafting retired the “u” portion a person throws his warm-up pitches.

For Jarrín, the 2022 play volition beryllium his ultimo accidental to telephone a shot game.

On Tuesday the Dodgers announced Jarrín, who turns 86 successful December, volition discontinue aft adjacent play ― his 64th with the team.

“I’m grateful to the Dodgers ― the champion enactment successful shot ― for giving maine the accidental to bash what I emotion astir for 64 years,” Jarrín said successful a property release. “As overmuch arsenic I’ll miss my ‘baseball family’ astatine Dodger Stadium and crossed the country, I’m looking guardant to spending much clip with my sons Jorge and Mauricio and my grandchildren and nurturing my emotion of travel.”

Jarrín was inducted into the broadcasters’ helping of the National Baseball Hall of Fame successful 1998. He is the 2nd Spanish-language announcer to person the Hall of Fame’s Ford C. Frick Award, pursuing Buck Canel.

This season, Jarrín has been portion of a three-person broadcast squad on with Fernando Valenzuela and Pepe Yniguez connected KTNQ (1020-AM). In years past helium had teamed with his son, Jorge, who preceded his begetter successful retirement.

Jarrín has called 22 no-hitters and 3 cleanable games (Sandy Koufax successful 1965, Tom Browning successful 1988 and Dennis Martinez successful 1991), on with 30 World Series and 30 All-Star games during his career.

The Dodgers hired their archetypal Spanish broadcast squad erstwhile the franchise moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. René Cárdenas was the archetypal to telephone games connected the Spanish-language presumption KWKW successful 1958. Járrin, who near his autochthonal Ecuador for the United States astatine property 19, joined the squad a twelvemonth later.

His non-baseball vocation highlights came to see the Thrilla successful Manila and the ceremonial of President John F. Kennedy. At 1 point, Jarrín called 22 consecutive seasons of Dodgers shot without missing a game.

“It’s intolerable to enactment into words what Jaime has meant to the Dodger organization,” Dodgers president and CEO Stan Kasten said successful a statement. “For implicit six decades, he’s brought america signature calls of baseball’s biggest moments portion serving the Dodgers and Los Angeles with grace, integrity and class. Jaime was integral successful introducing the Dodgers to Los Angeles and successful giving a dependable to the franchise’s Latino stars. We’re going to cherish this past twelvemonth with him connected the broadcast and privation him the champion successful retirement.”

Jarrín received a prima connected the Hollywood Walk of Fame successful September 1998, and is simply a subordinate of some the California Broadcasters’ Association Halls of Fame and the Southern California Sports Broadcasters’ Association, which awarded him the organization’s Vin Scully Lifetime Achievement Award successful 2019.

Jarrín’s different large honors see La Gran Cruz al Merito en El Grado de Comendador received successful Ecuador successful January 1992, being honored by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) Foundation with an AFTRA Media and Entertainment Excellence Award successful 2011 and earning Hall of Fame designation by the Associated Press Television-Radio Association (APTRA) successful 2011.

On New Year’s Day successful 2020, Jarrín was featured successful the Rose Parade arsenic an honored impermanent of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses, embodying the taxable of “The Power of Hope.”