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Bob Carpenter | |
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 Carpenter in 2011 | |
| Born | (1953-03-04)March 4, 1953 (age 72) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Spouse | Debbie Carpenter |
| Children | 2 |
| Sports commentary career | |
| Team | Washington Nationals |
| Genre | Play-by-play |
| Sport | Baseball |
Bob Carpenter (born 1953) is an American formersportscaster who was theplay-by-play announcer forMajor League Baseball'sWashington Nationals onMASN. He was born inSt. Louis, Missouri, and graduated fromMcBride High School. Carpenter attended theUniversity of Missouri-St. Louis, and later graduated with honors from theUniversity of Missouri-Kansas City with a bachelor's degree in Radio-TV-Film.
Carpenter was the Washington Nationals TV broadcaster from 2006-2025.[1]
Carpenter served two stints calling television broadcasts for theSt. Louis Cardinals, and also spent 16 seasons as a baseball announcer withESPN, 18 seasons overall with the network, also covering soccer, college baseball,basketball andfootball andminor league baseball in addition to themajor leagues. He also served as a team broadcaster for theNew York Mets,Minnesota Twins andTexas Rangers.[2]
From 1978 until 1984, Carpenter called soccer games for theTulsa Roughnecks of theNorth American Soccer League and theSt. Louis Steamers of theMajor Indoor Soccer League. He announced two World Cups for ESPN; 1982 with Bob Ley and 1994 (10 games) with Seamus Malin and Clive Charles.
In his first major league season, 1984, Carpenter developed his own baseball scorebook. He started marketing it in 1995, and "Bob Carpenter's Scorebook" is now used by many college, major and minor league announcers. It is the most widely used scorebook in the nation by fans and broadcasters.[3]
He also called NCAA Basketball on CBS as well as college football and basketball games forUSA Sports andMajor League Baseball for NBC. In addition to baseball and college sports, Carpenter called tennis (1995 U.S. Open) and golf (Masters 1986–1988) for USA Network. Carpenter called six NCAA basketball tournaments for ESPN and CBS, plus the 2005 Final Four in St. Louis for NCAA International.
Carpenter is a two-time St. Louis-area Emmy Award winner for his coverage of the Cardinals, and has been nominated for six Emmys overall; one in New York (Mets '92, Outstanding Sports Coverage[4]), four in St. Louis and one in the Washington/Baltimore region (Nationals '08, Sports Play-by-Play[5]). Carpenter was named the 2014 Washington, DC Sportscaster of the Year (along with Washington Capitals TV voice Joe Beninati) by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association. He has called seven no-hitters: Montreal's David Palmer at St. Louis in 1984 (shortened to five innings by rain), Cardinals rookies Jose Jimenez at Arizona in 1999 and Bud Smith at San Diego in 2001, Washington's Jordan Zimmermann versus Miami at Nationals Park on the last day of the 2014 season, Washington's Max Scherzer over Pittsburgh at Nationals Park on June 20, 2015, Scherzer's second 2015 no-hitter at New York versus the Mets October 3, and San Diego Padre Dylan Cease versus the Nationals in Washington on July 25, 2024. With ESPN, St. Louis and Washington, Carpenter has called numerous division clinchers, and announced the 1996 NLCS for St. Louis on KMOX Radio.
Carpenter called TV play-by-play forUniversity of Oklahoma men's and women's basketball for 16 years, retiring from hoops in February 2017. He also coveredOral Roberts University basketball games in the baseball off-season.In March 2017, Carpenter was inducted into the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
In March 2025, Carpenter announced that the 2025 season would be his last, and that he would retire following the conclusion of the season's schedule. Carpenter was given a retirement ceremony atNationals Park on September 27, 2025, celebrating his 42 years of broadcasting and 20 years with the Nationals, then called his last game the following day, along with fellow MASN commentatorKevin Frandsen.[6]
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