Sean McDonough is a televisionsportscaster
and son Boston Globe sportswriter Will McDonough. He graduated from
Syracuse University in 1984 and began broadcasting
Boston Red Sox games on WSBK-TV (Channel 38) in Boston with former Red Sox
catcher Bob Montgomery four years later.
He began work for CBS Sports in 1990 where he broadcast college
basketball (including 10 NCAA tournaments), college football, the NFL, US
Open tennis, 3 Winter Olympics, and golf (including 4 Masters and PGA
Championships). Outside of New England, he is probably best remembered for
his time as CBS's lead baseball announcer, a role in which he was teamed
with Tim McCarver. In 1992, at the age of 30, he became the youngest man
to announce the national broadcast of the World Series. Coincidentally,
that particular record would be broken four years later by Fox's
27-year-old Joe Buck, the son of the man McDonough replaced on CBS,
Jack Buck.
Perhaps Sean McDonough's most famous call is his emotional description
of the Atlanta Braves' Francisco Cabrera (who had only 10 at bats at the
major league level going in) getting a dramatic, game-winning base hit in
Game 7 of the 1992 National League Championship Series against the
Pittsburgh Pirates: "Line drive and a base hit. Justice will score
the tying run. Bream to the plate...and he's safe, safe at the plate! The
Braves go to the World Series!" McDonough got so caught up in the
moment, that his voice cracked the moment Sid Bream beat out Barry Bonds'
throw to home plate.
A year later, McDonough called Joe Carter's dramatic World Series
ending home run off of Mitch Williams: "Well-hit down the left-field
line! Way back and gone! Joe Carter with a three-run homer! The winners
and still world champions, the Toronto Blue
Jays!"
Since 2000, McDonough has announced college basketball, college
football, and professional hockey for ABC Sports and ESPN. Specifically,
McDonough announces many Big East college football and basketball events,
though he is certainly not limited to those games.
McDonough continued to announce local Red Sox broadcasts during this
time, moving over the years to different local stations including WFXT
(Channel 25), WABU (Channel 68) and WLVI (Channel 56). Over the years, his
other obligations began to interfere with his announcing of Red Sox games,
and he seemed to call fewer and fewer each season. In 1996, he was teamed
with former Red Sox second baseman Jerry Remy, with whom he worked for
nine seasons before McDonough was replaced completely in 2004 by NESN
announcer Don Orsillo.
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