The Red Sox opener Thursday will mark the beginning of Joe Castiglione’s 45th season calling Major League Baseball and his 41st as the radio voice of the home team at Fenway Park.
Corey Kluber’s first pitch will also commence Dave O’Brien’s 34th season as an MLB broadcaster. He has been with the Red Sox since 2007, first in the radio booth alongside Castiglione, and since 2016 as the play-by-play announcer on NESN.
That’s thousands of innings. They’ve witnessed baseball go through various phases from their perches high above the action. In recent years, they saw baseball become a slog, with games routinely lasting 3½ to four hours.