Looking back at Dodgers TV & radio broadcasts in 2025

LOS ANGELES — Now that the baseball season is over, we can look back at the various announcer pairings the Dodgers used on both their television and radio English-language broadcasts during the 2025 season.

SportsNet LA was in its 12th season of televising Dodgers games locally, the last six of which have been available more widely within the market.

Seventeen Dodgers games during the regular season were exclusively televised or streamed nationally, which meant no SportsNet LA for those games, which including six each on ESPN and Fox, four on Apple TV+ and one on The Roku Channel.

That left 145 games on SportsNet LA, 87 of which were called by Joe Davis on play-by-play. He also called 87 games on SportsNet LA in both 2023 and 2024 as well.

I asked Davis to pick a broadcast highlight from 2025.

“First place my mind goes is the intensity of those Padres games,” Davis said. “Such a fun rivalry right now.”

Here is the Davis call along with analyst Eric Karros when benches cleared at Dodger Stadium on June 19, the seventh game in an 11-day stretch between the two teams which featured 11 hit batters in total.

Davis also called the two games against the Cubs in Tokyo to open up the season, and called that “a special experience.”

Stephen Nelson called the other 58 games on SportsNet LA. Together, Davis and Nelson worked with four analysts on television — Orel Hershiser was on 83 games on SportsNet LA, Eric Karros on 39, Jessica Mendoza on 20, and Nomar Garciaparra also worked three TV games with Davis. That’s a similar breakdown of recent years, with Hershiser working 84 games in 2023 and 83 in 2024, and Mendoza working 20 games in each of the last three years.

Nelson said his highlight of the season was calling Clayton Kershaw’s 3,000th career strikeout, which came at home against the Chicago White Sox on July 2. The game itself presented several obstacles, including Kershaw scuffling through his six innings, and getting the third and final strikeout he needed on what would have been his last batter of the game no matter what. That final strikeout came minutes after third baseman Max Muncy was helped off the field after a knee injury that looked especially bad at the time.

“A final individual capstone for an inner-circle Hall of Famer. There was so much build-up to that night,” Nelson explained. “And then the drama that preceded it — is he even going to get it? Uh, is Max Muncy done for the year? — to then get it on what we all knew was his final pitch.”

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“My gut feeling going into the game was that I wasn’t going to say much if he got it,” Nelson recalled. “Vin [Scully] capped his no-no with ‘He’s done it,’ and laid out. Similar with Joe with Scherzer’s 3,000th. I wanted to get out of the way for the Dodger Stadium crowd. Kersh gave me his stamp of approval, which further crystallized the moment as one I’ll hold onto for the rest of my career.”

In all, there were seven broadcaster pairings on SportsNet LA.

Broadcasters

Games

W-L (Pct)

Runs scored

Runs allowed

Davis & Hershiser

53

25-28 (.472)

4.34

4.49

Nelson & Hershiser

30

16-14 (.533)

4.93

3.73

Davis & Karros

20

13-7 (.650)

5.65

5.30

Nelson & Karros

19

12-7 (.632)

6.63

4.37

Davis & Mendoza

11

4-7 (.364)

3.27

2.91

Nelson & Mendoza

9

6-3 (.667)

3.67

1.89

Davis & Garciaparra

3

3-0 (1.000)

6.00

1.33

Nelson also called 54 games for AM 570, including filling in for the final three innings of the home opener on March 27 against the Tigers after Charley Steiner called the first six frames. That meant 112 games in the booth for Nelson in total, plus reporting on the telecast for SportsNet LA for the first two games in Tokyo and the three exhibition Freeway Series games against the Angels.

Nelson also called all 17 Dodgers postseason games alongside analyst Rick Monday, who was the ironman of the group. Monday also called 152 regular season games on radio, plus 19 spring training games with play-by-play man Tim Neverett, his partner for 105 regular season broadcasts.

In games Monday didn’t work, José Mota moved over from the Spanish-language booth for seven games, James Loney called two games, and David Vassegh one game.

Neverett & Monday 66-39 (.629)Nelson & Monday 24-22 (.522)Nelson & Mota 0-4 (.000)Neverett & Mota 2-1 (.667)Nelson & Loney 0-2 (.000)Steiner & Monday 1-0 (1.000)Nelson & Vassegh 0-1 (.000)