LOS ANGELES - On the night Michael Mariot was born, a baseball game flashed on the TV inside his mother's West Hills, Calif., hospital room. It was Oct. 20, 1988. Soon before Diana Mariot gave birth to her son, the Dodgers won the World Series and Vin Scully described every moment.
"I thought it was pretty special," Michael Mariot said, "that I was born to his voice."
So the Phillies reliever joined two of his teammates and third-base coach Juan Samuel, a former Dodger, on a pregame excursion Wednesday morning. They rode two escalators to the fifth floor at Dodger Stadium, stepped inside the press box named for Scully, and met the legendary broadcaster before he announced his final Phillies game ever.