Checking in with the broadcaster who went viral for great London Series call.
Darren Fletcher was an unlikely candidate to provide one of the baseball calls of the year given that his main gig is covering soccer and boxing for TNT Sports in the United Kingdom. But his annual appearance behind the microphone for the London Series put him in position to author a gem last Sunday as the New York Mets turned a game-ending 2-3 double play to thwart a Philadelphia Phillies rally. The call, which has been everywhere on social media, goes extremely hard and is wrapped in joy.
My wife and all my friends in England joke that in a previous life I must have lived in the U.S. because I'm obsessed with U.S. sport, when we holiday we go to the U.S., so for me to get the praise in the U.S. for doing it means more than probably England in a mad way. It's almost like frontier that you're never going to conquer. But for this really small window, as Andy Warhol said, my 10 minutes of fame has come about from a baseball call in London.
The only drawback now is that I won't get to commentate on baseball now for two years because the London Series is taking a year off then it comes back. So I probaby won't call another baseball game until 2026, which I'm devastated about because I enjoy it so much.
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