Camargo hit .286 in the Grapefruit League, with a home run and six runs batted in. That .083 batting average did nothing to excite the fans, but now that Ozuna may become the main Braves designated hitter he might get a clean slate. These 6 pitchers have combined for 162 regular starts in their careers. Adeiny Hechavarria was having a good spring. You can also add Ben Ingram and the rest of the Braves Radio Network as well since that crew generally did an excellent job of presenting the game to us fans. So that was good.”. His favorite was when Uecker agreed to develop a fictional character named Jean-Jacque Smythe. So, Dontrelle Willis will pitch for the Florida Marlins and if there is a God, Jorge Sosa will pitch for the Braves.”, “That was one of the all-timers,” Braves longtime television and radio broadcaster Joe Simpson said. Comment. ET on Middle Georgia’s ESPN. 15. The BRN goes on air @ 6:50pm Eastern for an 8:08pm Eastern FP. As this occurred, West was in the home clubhouse talking to Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez and general manager Frank Wren about the possibility of finishing the game. My eyes are burning. So it’s easy to understand why they both took pleasure in occasionally getting under each other’s skin. When Ingram returned to the booth, Giffin told him the game had been called. '” Chip said. This group has much better days ahead. Is this shocking news? https://www.si.com/mlb/braves/news/ben-ingram-interview-july-22 The MC graduate, the story said, told listeners about a hit by future Hall of Famer Chipper Jones in San Diego and talked of Derek Lowe’s pitching in Seattle. Perhaps. The CL story tells readers how Ingram filled in for Jim Powell on a six-game Atlanta Braves road trip to the West Coast last week. Ben spoke on a variety of topics including Freddie Freeman’s surgically-repaired elbow, the pitching staff and Kelly Crull replacing Kelsey Wingert as the Braves on-field reporter for Fox Sports South. One lasting memory of the fun he brought to work on a daily basis is preserved via this audio clip of what he described as “without question the worst open in the history of baseball.”, As Caray prepared his radio audience for a game in Miami on June 28, 1995, he playfully described the setting as the banks of the Miccosukee Canal and then after composing himself said, “Kevin Willis on the mound … Kevin Willis of course played for the Atlanta Hawks. Meanwhile, I’m guzzling mine. It mentions his work calling high school games in Starkville as well as his three-year stint with the Mississippi Braves, and now the Major League Baseball club in Atlanta. He had three doubles and three runs batted in. Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.116 Safari/537.36, ESPN 105.1 The Zone (WALV)/Brewer Broadcasting, LLC Contest Rules, https://dehayf5mhw1h7.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2020/02/26175621/Ben-Ingram-Interview-02.26.20.mp3. “He talked about that as [my] dad described the play. Hall Of Fame 3rd Baseman Chipper Jones joins Chris Dimino, Ben Ingram and Tug Cowart on The Braves Radio Network and 680 The Fan You Tube. 1. Pache hit .269 with a .345 OBP, two home runs and seven RBI. Is the Braves rotation a championship-caliber rotation? While many believed Riley would head to Gwinnett to start the season, he was making a case to be the starter by hitting .357 with two home runs and four runs batted in. In the end, I wasn’t the bad guy. One such instance occurred during a television broadcast in 2002, when they were asked to help promote Vanilla Coke. His rise in the broadcasting booth is getting noticed all over the map. He even went to our producer Glenn Diamond after the game and said, ‘You better have a talk with that son-of-a-[gun].’ He was so mad.”. Two days later, I was told I had the job.”. On July 5, the Atlanta Braves now sit in second place in the National League East or four games behind the first-place Philadelphia Phillies. “I stayed in touch with everybody in Atlanta throughout the 2010 season and off-season, and in January 2011, I got a call requesting I come over for an interview. '”, Ingram had no clue what had happened until 680 The Fan’s reporter Kevin McAlpin returned to the house they were renting and said, “Dude, do you know what you did?”, “I had to get in touch with Fredi [Gonzalez] and Frank [Wren] that night,” Ingram said. Braves Radio Network broadcaster Ben Ingram joined Press Row from spring training in North Port, Florida to provide an update on the Braves. “I always thought he was going to move up the chain pretty fast,” says Bryan Eubank, the general manager at SuperSport 930 AM radio in Jackson where Ingram hosted a talk show during his time with the M-Braves. Folks with the M-Braves say they are thrilled about Ben’s success. Ben IngramAsked about some of the funniest experiences he’s had since joining the Braves' radio team in 2011, Ingram remembered never getting a list of the umpires who were working a Spring Training game he was calling in Dunedin, Fla. What a difference a year makes. In June 24, 2011 a blog by the Cathy Family, the founders of Chick-fil-A restaurants, spotlights Ben’s story and noted he stepped in at the Turner Field microphone in late April 2011 when the regular A-Braves announcer was ill that day. Skip took this one little mini swig and then you just heard him throw it in the trash can. The phones back at our flagship station were lighting up because this guy is ripping Bob Uecker, Bud Selig and the Brewers. Here are how some of the Braves players did in the Grapefruit League: First baseman Freddie Freeman was coming back from his elbow surgery and the results were really good in spring training, even with a small sample size. Ben Ingram Ben Ingram’s quick rise to the top as a big-league radio announcer continues to put the media spotlight on the Mississippi College graduate. He also had four walks. Ozzy, jokes and accents: Inside Braves' booth. While in there, he heard the mumbling sounds of a press box announcement confirming the obvious, which was that the game had been delayed. 3 days ago. Though Chip was never around Skip on a regular basis before joining the Braves’ broadcast team in 2005, he certainly had a good feel for how to play off his father’s seldom PG-rated humor. Radio producer Brian Giffin must have also misunderstood the announcement. Ben Ingram’s quick rise to the top as a big-league radio announcer continues to put the media spotlight on the Mississippi College graduate. “He would say something like, ‘We know you, we know all about your kind,’ in the voice of what would have sounded like a hostile French-Canadian journalist,” Powell said. His double-play partner, Dansby Swanson, was hitting .259 with three RBI and a double. “So after they hear me come on the air and say the game has been called, from what I’ve been told, Joe West looked at them and said, 'Well, I guess we’re done. Austin Riley and Johan Camargo were both doing well in their battle for third base. Hall Of Fame 3rd Baseman Chipper Jones joins Chris Dimino, Ben Ingram and Tug Cowart on The Braves Radio Network and 680 The Fan You Tube. “Fortunately for me, there was a two and one-half hour rain delay that night, which gave me an opportunity to not only meet the broadcasters, but a chance to have a good conversation with them,” Ingram said in a “Beacon” story. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Four of his 10 hits were for extra bases. “I said, ‘Darren, for our audience that is not all that familiar with hockey, can you explain some of the rules, like what is high sticking? Ingram fans want to catch Monday’s “Clarion-Ledger” sports profile of the Mississippian with a story detailing his fast track trip as the host of an Atlanta Braves postgame radio show. Ingram happened to be in the right place at the right time. 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