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| Dave Flemming | |
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| San Francisco Giants | |
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| Born: (1976-05-31)May 31, 1976 (age 49) Alexandria, Virginia, U.S. | |
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David Braxton Flemming (born May 31, 1976) is an Americansportscaster who has been aplay-by-play announcer for theSan Francisco Giants ofMajor League Baseball since 2003. Flemming also callscollege football,college basketball,major league baseball, andgolf onESPN, as well as theWorld Series,MLB All-Star Game andWorld Baseball Classic forMLB International.
Flemming grew up inAlexandria, Virginia, listening to current Giants partnerJon Miller callBaltimore Orioles games. In2004, Flemming began his first full year as an announcer for the team, working with Miller,Duane Kuiper andMike Krukow on San Francisco stationKNBR and theGiants Radio Network. Since then, he has split time between television onNBC Sports Bay Area and radio onKNBR.
After graduating fromSt. Stephen's & St. Agnes School in 1994, Flemming received bachelor's and master's degrees inclassics fromStanford University and a master's degree in broadcast journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Communications atSyracuse University. While at Stanford, Flemming broadcastStanford Cardinal baseball, men's and women's basketball, and football[1] and served as sports director atKZSU. In 2000, he broadcast play-by-play for theVisalia Oaks and served as the assistant general manager, before moving on to thePawtucket Red Sox.
Flemming called games for three seasons on the eight-stationPawSox Radio Network. His rise in the baseball broadcasting industry was fast, as he went from Class-A ball (Visalia) in 2000 toTriple-A from 2001 to 2003 (Pawtucket) and finally the Giants.
In twenty seasons calling Giants games, Flemming has been a part of many memorable on-air moments.
On April 27, 2003, in his second ever major league broadcast, working as a fill-in forJon Miller, Flemming broadcast the Phillies' Kevin Millwood's no-hitter against the Giants. In some ways it was an indication of the moments to come.
Barry Bonds provided several of those. On May 28, 2006, Flemming calledBarry Bonds' 715thhome run, passingBabe Ruth for second place on the all-time home run list. However, as he was making the call, his microphone went dead. Flemming, unaware of the problem, continued to make the call, but all listeners heard was about ten seconds of dead air. OnlyDuane Kuiper's call onFox Sports Net's broadcast was sent to the Hall of Fame.[2] On September 23 of the same year, during Flemming's third-inning call of a game against theMilwaukee Brewers atMiller Park, Bonds hit a home run off left-handerChris Capuano. This was Bonds' 734th career homer (26th for the season), which brokeHank Aaron's record forNational League home runs. (Aaron hit his last 21 homers as anAmerican League player.) Eventually on August 4, 2007, Flemming was able to call Bonds' record-tying 755th home run in San Diego on the radio against theSan Diego Padres.
On July 14, 2006, for a Friday night home game, Flemming made his television broadcast debut for the Giants. Since then, he has appeared regularly on bothNBC Sports Bay Area andKNTV during the baseball season.
Other milestone broadcasts Flemming contributed to include the calls ofGreg Maddux andRandy Johnson's 300th pitching victories. Including the Milwood game on his debut weekend, Flemming has broadcast seven MLB no-hitters.
On November 1, 2010, during the seventh inning in Game 5 of theWorld Series atRangers Ballpark, Flemming made the winning home run call that eventually sealed the Giants' win, and thus the World Series.[3]
On June 13, 2012, Flemming made the radio call of the final out ofMatt Cain's perfect game, the first in the history of the Giants. In 2013 Flemming (along with Kuiper and Miller) won an Emmy for his coverage of the perfect game.
Later that season, on October 28, 2012, Flemming made the call for the final out of the2012 World Series.[4] Flemming was again a part of the broadcasts for the 2014 postseason, and the Giants' third World Series win of the decade. In his time in San Francisco, he has won three Northern California Emmys for sports play-by-play.
Starting in 2007, Flemming began broadcastingStanford Cardinal football and basketball. He spent three years as the voice of Stanford basketball on the radio, and six years in that capacity with Stanford football before leaving the Stanford broadcasts to concentrate on his ESPN work.
The period Flemming served as the voice of Stanford football coincided with perhaps the most successful stretch in the school's football history. Flemming's first broadcast on the Stanford radio network was the epic upset of #1 ranked USC on October 6, 2007. Over the next six seasons, Flemming was behind the microphone for the record performances of Toby Gerhart andAndrew Luck, and for three BCS bowl appearances, including aRose Bowl victory over Wisconsin on January 1, 2013.
Flemming became a regularCollege Basketball on ESPN announcer in 2010, after having called a couple of games for the network the previous season. He has covered theBig 10, theBig 12, thePac 12, and the WCC for ESPN college basketball, teaming withDan Dakich,Sean Farnham,Fran Fraschilla, and many other analysts. In recent years Flemming and Farnham have frequently followedGonzaga and have documented that program's rise to the top of the college basketball world.
He has also called baseball forESPN andESPN Radio, including postseasonDivision Series games from 2013 to 2019. He worked a season calling college football games for thePac-12 Network in 2012 before shifting toCollege Football on ESPN in 2013. Also in 2013, Flemming began callingNBA games onESPN Radio and contributing toLittle League World Series coverage on ESPN andABC. HisLLWS work continued for seven years. In 2015, Flemming began callingNFL games for ESPN Radio as well.[5] In 2016, he began calling selectMonday Night Baseball games for ESPN,[6] as well asCollege Football Thursday Primetime games.[7] He has also served a hole announcer for ESPNgolf coverage, including theMasters andPGA Championship tournaments.
In 2022, Flemming called theAL Wild Card series between theSeattle Mariners andToronto Blue Jays withJessica Mendoza,Tim Kurkjian andColey Harvey. Since 2022, Flemming has called play-by-play for theWorld Series forMLB International; he teamed withDan Plesac in2022, and has been paired withRyan Spilborghs from 2023.
Flemming and his wife, Jessica, live in San Francisco with theiridentical twin daughters Katie and Carter and their son David Henry.
Flemming's brother,Will Flemming, is a play-by-play announcer for theBoston Red Sox Radio Network.[8]
Flemming is a descendant ofCarter Braxton, a signer of theUnited States Declaration of Independence.