'La voz de los Dodgers' Jaime Jarrín threw the ceremonial first pitch in what would be his last home opener as the team's Spanish radio broadcaster⚾👑 Jarrín's interview with lauradiazanchor:
The Spanish voice of the Dodgers is retiring after the 2022 MLB season.Jaime Jarrín and I have met many times professionally over the years. He’s easy to talk to, elegant in his manner of speech, which still carries a melodic Spanish accent.
But when you’re in the presence of this larger-than-life Los Angeles Dodgers announcer, you are mostly struck by his deep voice and gentle way. That is except when he’s calling a baseball game. He’s Jaime Jarrín at the mic, enthusiastic and poetic.Next year will be his 64th season with the Boys in Blue. The man who came to this country at the age of 19 from his native Ecuador had to first learn about baseball.
Jaime knew radio, but not the game of baseball. He learned the game, then he learned how to describe to listeners what they could not see. He spoke to me Tuesday at his home, where in just a couple of hours, he would step up to the mic at Dodger Stadium to announce that he was retiring from the broadcast booth after the 2022 Dodger baseball season.
The man with the signature line.... " Se va, se va, se va! " had decided it was time to make a change.Some changes have been challenging for 85-year-old Jarrín. There was the deadly pandemic that brought baseball and the world to a screeching halt, games called in empty studios, with strict covid protocols in place.