Dodgers’ Joe Davis Has One Shohei Ohtani Call He Wishes He Could Do Over

On Aug. 23, Los Angeles Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani recorded the sixth 40/40 season in MLB history when he launched a walk-off grand slam to give the Dodgers a 7-3 win over the Tampa Bay Rays. The moment will go down in history, as Ohtani became the fastest player to reach 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in MLB history, and did so with an incredible walk-off grand slam.

Ohtani’s walk-off grand slam is already one of the top highlights of the season, and one of the top highlights for the two-time MVP and four-time MLB All-Star’s career.

The moment also marks a call that Dodgers’ announcer Joe Davis would like to have back, and redo if he had the chance. While Davis acknowledges he didn’t do anything wrong on the call, he would do the call differently if he could to further cement an all-time moment for an all-time player.

“I would like to do Ohtani’s 40/40 grand slam [call] again,” Davis told Brandon Contes on the Awful Announcing Podcast. “I didn’t do anything wrong, I didn’t mess it up. I wish I would have said his name within the call, just for that historical soundbite, I think that it probably required his name. I went back and listened to that 15 to 20 times trying to figure out how I could have done it a little better. I like to get a notebook out … and nitpick it.”

“Fly ball, right center field,” Davis said during the original call. “Siri’s going back. He’s at the track, he’s at the wall. 40/40. Walk-off grand slam! No way! What a moment! History!”

Davis of course has called many iconic moments for the Dodgers since he took over for Vin Scully nine years ago. Covering a perennial playoff and division winner, and the 2020 World Series champion team, Davis has helped cement many of the team’s greatest moments over the last decade with his calls.

Davis certainly saw room for improvement from the Ohtani 40/40 call, but there will likely be plenty of future Ohtani milestone calls for him in the future — perhaps Ohtani’s 50th home run or stolen base call lies in the month ahead.

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