The successor to Bob Costas as play-by-play voice on TNT’s Main League Baseball postseason video games would be the identical broadcaster who changed the legendary Bob Miller in 2017 after Miller retired following a 44-year Corridor of Fame profession with the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL.
Sure, Alex Faust has expertise changing a titan of the airwaves.
Costas, in fact, is one other Corridor of Famer, and he additionally retired after 44 years. His closing MLB name was the 2024 American League Division Collection during which the New York Yankees defeated the Kansas Metropolis Royals in 4 video games.
Faust, 36, at the moment calls Friday Night time MLB video games streamed on Apple TV+. He is also the radio voice of the New York Rangers and has been a part of hockey and tennis protection at TNT Sports activities. Faust left the Kings in 2023 when their tv cope with Bally Sports activities expired.
Costas will proceed to seem on MLB Community however gained’t do play-by-play. His most up-to-date look on the airwaves was as a visitor on the NPR information quiz “Wait, Wait, Don’t Inform Me” on Sept. 13.
After telling tales about not making his highschool baseball crew and recounting an embarrassing, mildly profane gaffe he made on air early in his profession, Costas answered all three sport present questions concerning the Emmy Awards accurately.
Costas joked that he had achieved “the trifecta, the hat trick, the triple crown.” Host Peter Segal requested what the present ought to name it when somebody goes 3 for 3. Costas laughed and replied, “The Costi.”
He most likely ought to have an award named after him. Costas, 73, has obtained 29 Emmys and was the prime-time host of 12 Olympic Video games from 1988 via 2016. He referred to as three World Collection and 10 MLB league championships.
Costas stepped down from MLB play-by-play in November, telling Tom Verducci of MLB Community that he had deliberate to retire for greater than a yr, saying, “I couldn’t persistently attain my previous commonplace.”
