Rockies pay visit to Scully’s booth, gift in hand

LOS ANGELES — Rockies catching coach Rene Lachemann is 72, but remembers being 13 when the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles from Brooklyn. Famed broadcaster Vin Scully’s voice flowed from his transistor radio and filled his summer evenings.

By 1960, Lachemann was a Dodgers bat boy, who was learning to play like the big leaguer he would become and becoming well-versed in big league-sounding words of four or more letters. But the vocabulary changed when he would have the honor of running a hot dog to Scully in the broadcast booth at the LA Coliseum.

“Just out of respect — he was always too squeaky clean for me — you didn’t want to use any vulgar words around him,” Lachemann said, laughing.

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Rockies manager Walt Weiss can laugh about one of Scully’s most famous calls — when the Dodgers’ Kirk Gibson hobbled to the plate on two bad legs and parked a ninth-inning homer to win Game 1 of the 1988 World Series. Weiss was the shortstop for the Athletics, who lost the game and eventually watched the Dodgers win the Series.

On the field, he didn’t hear …

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