Audio: PHS alum calls old ball game

What's a story about a radio broadcaster without audio? Well, hopefully it's still enjoyable, because, as a printed newspaper, we couldn't include audio in last week's feature on Powell High alumni Anthony Masterson, who spent the summer helping call baseball games for the high-A minor league affiliate of the Washington Nationals.

Fortunately, our paper has this blog, and we can embed audio here.

Anthony was kind enough to email the Trib a sample taken from a game he called in Winston-Salem, N.C. The following clip covers the bottom of the fourth inning during an Aug. 19 game between the Potomac Nationals and the hosting Winston-Salem Dash.

Anthony Masterson calls the bottom of the 4th - time: 5:58
If the audio player doesn't work in the space above, you can download the recording here.

As an epilogue, the only downside to the above clip is that it doesn't include any of the audio commercials Masterson produced this summer. They were, in baseball terms, full of “high cheese.”

One spot promoting a dog-permitted night at the ballpark featured Masterson singing to a pooch, while another, pitching Ladies Night at the stadium, pitched the woman-wooing power of P-Nats baseball.

“The guidelines I got were pretty much, ‘Be as campy as possible,’” said Masterson.

With the number of times the ads were repeated, “No matter what I do with the commercials, people are going to hate them,” he said. “My job is to make them not hate them the first couple times.”