Johnny Doskow is an experienced baseball announcer, but even broadcasters with 30 years of experience get tripped up every now and then.
Doskow spent the past 22 seasons calling games for the Triple A Sacramento River Cats and is in his first season working regularly with the A’s. He was behind the microphone with Dallas Braden for NBC Sports Bay Area’s coverage of Thursday’s game between the A’s and Astros, which started at 6:40 p.m. local time. Since the sun didn’t set until almost 8:30, that meant parts of the Oakland Coliseum were bathed in sunlight while others were covered in shadows. That’s always tricky for players, but it proved to be difficult for Doskow as well.
Oakland rookie Jordan Diaz led off the bottom of the fourth inning with a long flyball to right-center, where the last of the sunlight was beaming down.
