'La pelota se va, se va, se va, y despidala con un beso!' Los Angeles Dodgers’ baseball would not be the same without Jaime Jarrín, the team’s beloved Spanish-language broadcaster.
This story is part of Image issue 6, “Energy,” an exploration what sports style feels like in the City of Champions.Sixty years is a long time to do the same job day in and day out, but to hear Jaime Jarrín tell it, six decades doesn’t feel terrible when you’ve found your calling. The Dodgers’ Spanish-language radio commentator, who willat the end of the 2022 season, has always felt a thrill sitting in the stadium and watching the Major League Baseball players start season after season.
How do you capture something — or transform it, even — through your own lens for others to receive it? I think about this often as a writer focusing on visual art. The term “Stendhal syndrome” comes to mind. It’s when a work of art takes over your system so intensely that you physically react to what you are seeing. Your body absorbs the intensity, the beauty, the complexity of a work of art. It’s not easy to translate this feeling into words for others to share in the encounter.
The history of baseball in L.A. is not immune from fraught politics . No league or team is perfect. But there’s something to be said about this one voice that spans generations. The love of the game fuels Jarrín’s every broadcast, and his words crackle with the passion of watching baseball fans erupt into cheers.
When I started with them [in] 1959, I thought I would be with the Dodgers five, six, seven, eight years at most, then move to something else. I was doing boxing also. Television in Spanish was just coming up. I thought television would be my next step — I did work for Telemundo for almost eight years — but I have always been a radio man. I love doing radio. I have been in front of a microphone for 70 years now, starting when I was 16 years old back home in Ecuador.
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