As fans pay tribute to legendary baseball announcer Bob Uecker, audio of his final call has gone viral on social media.
Uecker, a former baseball player and longtime broadcaster, died Thursday at the age of 90.
Uecker, a World Series championship-winning catcher with the St. Louis Cardinals, was a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and played one season for the Milwaukee Braves before playing in St. Louis, Philadelphia and Atlanta.
He then spent more than five decades calling baseball games, both nationally for ABC and NBC and locally for the Milwaukee Brewers.
Sure enough, Uecker was on the call in the final contest of the Brewers' 2024 season: Game 3 of the National League Wild Card Series against the New York Mets.
In that game, the Brewers took a 2-0 lead in the seventh inning which they held until a bomb by Mets first baseman Pete Alonso gave New York the lead.
Fans revisit the final call of Milwaukee Brewers announcer Bob Uecker, who died at age 90.
The Brewers lost their final NL Wild Card game when Pete Alonso hit a home run for the Mets.
A Brewers fan leaves flowers at a statue of Uecker outside American Family Field
The Mets held on to win the game, and the final out came when the Brewers' Brice Turang grounded into a double play.
Uecker's decision on the final out went like this: '4-2 New York, the pitch… a double play ball hit Lindor and the throw will end in a double play and the New York Mets, after coming from back with a big four-run rally in the ninth inning, overcame that three-run deficit. Wow.
'Turang fired a rocket, Lindor jumped short, went to the pocket and then threw to the first doubled-up Brice. And this ended and what seemed like a great comeback victory in a nothing-nothing game all night, was like this. And so, their great comeback with four to end the lead… is difficult.”
After New York left the dugout, there was silence in the Milwaukee booth before Uecker spoke into the microphone again.
'Well, New York… down, they did it. And the crew will make it all end here tonight… I assure you, that one was in some pain,” Uecker said over the airwaves of radio station WTMJ.
Uecker's career ventured outside of baseball into the world of acting and comedy after opening for Don Rickles in 1969.
That led to multiple appearances on 'The Tonight Show' back when Johnny Carson was host, where Carson nicknamed him 'Mr. Baseball'.
Uecker also starred in an ABC comedy, 'Mr. Belvedere', and starred as a play-by-play announcer for the Cleveland Indians in the beloved 'Major League' baseball film series.