The Call Not Heard 'Round The World
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Monday, May 29, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO, May 28 -- The broadcast went dead at the worst of all moments, and thousands of Bay Area fans listening on radio missed Barry Bonds's 715th homer because the microphone of play-by-play announcer Dave Flemming stopped working.
Flemming, a native of Alexandria, had started the call during Bonds's fourth-inning at-bat during the broadcast on the Giants' flagship station, KNBR.
"Three-and-two. Finley runs. The payoff pitch, a swing and a drive to deep cen . . ." -- then silence.
"I'm disappointed," Flemming said. "What can I do about it now? I made the call. It just didn't go over the air."
He still found humor in it all. "If you only heard the rest of the call. It was an unbelievable call," he said. "Too bad we don't have the proof."
