Jaime Jarrin

Vin Scully is not the only beloved Dodgers Hall of Fame announcer planning on returning next season. The Dodgers announced Friday that Jaime Jarrin would be back for a 55th season next year as the team's lead Spanish-language broadcaster. Jarrin agreed to a three-year contract extension. Jarrin is the second-longest tenured broadcaster in Major League Baseball, trailing only Scully, who announced Sunday he would return next year for his 64th consecutive season. A native of Ecuador, Jarrin began broadcasting Dodgers games in 1959, the year the Dodgers won their first World Series in Los Angeles.

PEORIA, Ariz. -- Jaime Jarrin pioneered the radio broadcasting of major league baseball in Spanish with the Dodgers more than 50 years ago -- and he earned a place in the Hall of Fame as a result. On Thursday his son Jorge will make his radio play-by-play debut -- in English -- when the Dodgers meet the Texas Rangers at Camelback Ranch. Following a famous dad in the same profession has tripped up many a baseball player -- as well as a few broadcasters. But Jarrin said he's ready to take his lumps as he learns the ropes.

Jaime Jarrin, the Spanish-language voice of the Dodgers for 31 years, was hospitalized in fair condition today after an automobile accident. Jarrin, 56, was in the intensive care unit with several internal injuries, said Judy Peirce, spokeswoman for Indian River Memorial Hospital. Jarrin calls play-by-play on KWKW in Los Angeles, the flagship of the Dodgers' Spanish radio network. He has covered the team since 1959 and became the No. 1 man in the booth in 1973.

Fernandomania was an original. All individual sports manias were borne from the knee of Fernando Valenzuela. Valenzuela, of course, was not just a remarkable sensation for the Dodgers, but a huge favorite back in his native Mexico. He played in the Mexican winter leagues dating to the late '70s. And now he's going to be honored there. On Sunday, Valenzuela will be inducted into the Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame in a ceremony at Hermosillo, Mexico, at the Universidad Sonora.

You would have to give your memory a serious workout to recall the last time Jaime Jarrin, the longtime Spanish-language broadcaster, missed calling the action during a regular season Dodger game before this year. But that all changed three months ago for the man who was thrust into the national spotlight as the interpreter for Fernando Valenzuela when the Mexican pitcher was the center of the Fernandomania craze in 1981.

Jaime Jarrin sits up in his hospital bed and wonders. Why does he always have to be so cooperative? When those people from the Los Angeles advertising agency called him in Vero Beach, Fla., March 26, asking him to cut a radio commercial in an hour, why didn't he say no? It was an impossible task. He would have to rush from the Dodgertown dining room at 8 p.m, buy a blank reel-to-reel tape, drive back to Dodgertown, cut the commercial and hand it to a messenger by 9. So why did he say yes?

"Que tal? amables amigos. Dondequiera que se encuentren, es un placer saludarles y darles la bienvenida a otra transmision del beisbol de los Dodgers." Once again, Jaime Jarrin is on the air. Everywhere.

Jaime and Jorge Jarrin spent manyFather's Dayweekends apart, with Hall of Fame Spanish-language Dodgers broadcaster Jaime working games while son Jorge grew up and later worked as KABC's helicopter traffic reporter, "Captain Jorge. " Now they're together, Jaime enriching his legacy as the nation's first daily Spanish-language radio play-by-play man by remaining on Dodgers radio broadcasts, and Jorge taking over with color commentator Manny Mota on Fox Deportes' first-year television coverage of 50 of the team's games.

Sunday the Dodgers will play the Cubs, and of course the game will be televised. Twice. The Dodgers and Prime Ticket and FS West are combining to offer English- and Spanish-language broadcasts at 1 p.m. It's a great idea that is overdue. Lucky Los Angeles fans can choose between two of the best baseball voices in the world, Hall of Fame broadcasters Vin Scully and Jaime Jarrin. Fox will provide three extra cameramen, all of them bilingual, to illustrate with video any points that Jarrin and analysts Fernando Valenzuela and Pepe Yniguez might make in Spanish.

Clockwise from left: * Humberto Luna's wacky 6-11 a.m. show on KTNQ with its stable of "Lunatico" characters was the first informal "Morning Zoo" type program in Spanish. * Veteran sportscaster Jaime Jarrin, known as KWKW's "Spanish Voice of the Dodgers"regarded as the premier Spanish sports announcer in the country, was the first American Latino to win a Golden Mike award. He is also vice president of news and sports for KWKW's parent company. * KLVE's morning man (6-10 a.m.

Once they were kings here. They ruled with a heavy hand. They dominated and were not shy about letting it be known. Only now it's all turned around. Now the Dodgers come to their home ballpark and almost cower at their own shadow. The Dodgers were an impressive 27-15 at home through the All-Star break. Since the break, they are 8-15 at Dodger Stadium. They have lost all three home stands and now have started 0-2 on their current seven-game stop. There is no explaining it, no rational way to analyze such a dramatic turnaround.

Vin Scully is not the only beloved Dodgers Hall of Fame announcer planning on returning next season. The Dodgers announced Friday that Jaime Jarrin would be back for a 55th season next year as the team's lead Spanish-language broadcaster. Jarrin agreed to a three-year contract extension. Jarrin is the second-longest tenured broadcaster in Major League Baseball, trailing only Scully, who announced Sunday he would return next year for his 64th consecutive season. A native of Ecuador, Jarrin began broadcasting Dodgers games in 1959, the year the Dodgers won their first World Series in Los Angeles.

With the Dodgers continuing to build on the fantastic foundation laid by Frank McCourt , I took advantage of an opportunity to chat with Magic on Tuesday. Yeah, he was here. Shocker, I know. The Dodgers said he would meet the media in the dugout at 4 p.m. It was pretty clever on their part as I was sitting in the dugout around 3:45 waiting while Magic was already talking to the media outside the Dodgers' clubhouse. When I got word he was gushing elsewhere, I rushed over because, as you know, he says the darnedest things.

Jaime and Jorge Jarrin spent manyFather's Dayweekends apart, with Hall of Fame Spanish-language Dodgers broadcaster Jaime working games while son Jorge grew up and later worked as KABC's helicopter traffic reporter, "Captain Jorge. " Now they're together, Jaime enriching his legacy as the nation's first daily Spanish-language radio play-by-play man by remaining on Dodgers radio broadcasts, and Jorge taking over with color commentator Manny Mota on Fox Deportes' first-year television coverage of 50 of the team's games.

The Dodgers are expanding their Spanish-language cable TV broadcasts this season, upping the telecasts from 30 to 50 games in 2012. As part of an effort by Fox to increase its Spanish sports broadcasts throughout the Los Angeles area, and nationally, games will be on Prime Ticket and carried by Time Warner, Cox and Bright House cable companies. Fox is still negotiating with other providers. The Dodgers have hired Jaime Jarrin's son , Jorge Jarrin, and long-time coach Manny Mota as broadcasters for their Spanish-language telecasts.

Nine batters and 41 pitches later, the Dodgers were down five runs. A game that had just started was essentially over. The Dodgers could never climb out of the first-inning hole Nathan Eovaldi put them in Sunday afternoon at Dodger Stadium and lost, 7-6, to the Colorado Rockies. With the tying run on second base in the seventh inning, second baseman Jamey Carroll grounded out. The Dodgers' next six batters went down in order, and the team's winning streak was over at five games.

PEORIA, Ariz. -- Jaime Jarrin pioneered the radio broadcasting of major league baseball in Spanish with the Dodgers more than 50 years ago -- and he earned a place in the Hall of Fame as a result. On Thursday his son Jorge will make his radio play-by-play debut -- in English -- when the Dodgers meet the Texas Rangers at Camelback Ranch. Following a famous dad in the same profession has tripped up many a baseball player -- as well as a few broadcasters. But Jarrin said he's ready to take his lumps as he learns the ropes.

Dodger broadcaster Jaime Jarrin was hospitalized in intensive care at Indian River Memorial Hospital Monday night after an automobile accident in which the car he was driving collided head-on with another vehicle. Jarrin, who was listed in fair condition late Tuesday, suffered several internal injuries, including a laceration of his liver, a ruptured spleen and broken ribs. Jarrin underwent surgery early Tuesday to remove the spleen and repair the liver.

Sunday the Dodgers will play the Cubs, and of course the game will be televised. Twice. The Dodgers and Prime Ticket and FS West are combining to offer English- and Spanish-language broadcasts at 1 p.m. It's a great idea that is overdue. Lucky Los Angeles fans can choose between two of the best baseball voices in the world, Hall of Fame broadcasters Vin Scully and Jaime Jarrin. Fox will provide three extra cameramen, all of them bilingual, to illustrate with video any points that Jarrin and analysts Fernando Valenzuela and Pepe Yniguez might make in Spanish.

Sitting in a restaurant in Cincinnati last week, Jaime Jarrin shook his head and smiled. "Increible," Jarrin said. He repeated the word several times over a lunch that lasted nearly three hours when describing his 50-year Hall of Fame career as the Spanish voice of the Dodgers.