On Wednesday night at Dodger Stadium, 50,215 fans witnessed Dodgers 20-year-old phenom left-hander Julio Urias pitch five innings that included no runs, five hits, four walks and one strikeout to lower his 2017 ERA to a stellar 0.84 through his combined two starts and 10.2 innings pitched.

But for as good as Urias was and in spite of the fact that the Dodgers eventually lost to their fiercest division rival San Francisco Giants by a score of 4-1 in 11 innings, most of those 50,215 fans didn’t come to Dodger Stadium to watch Urias pitch, or even to watch the Dodgers play for that matter. Instead, they came to witness Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully have his name retired alongside the other 10 former Dodger greats – including nine fellow Hall of Famers – on what is now called the “Ring of Honor.”

Fellow Dodgers ‘Ring of Honor’ members (and Hall of Famers) Sandy Koufax and Tommy Lasorda unveil Vin Scully’s plaque in front of a sold out Dodger Stadium crowd on Wednesday evening.
{Photo credit – Ron Cervenka)

“All those numbers … I see faces, I hear voices.” said the ever-humble Scully to the sellout crowd. “I don’t belong up there with those guys.”

Scully admits to looking stoic on the outside but was near tears on the inside on Wednesday evening.
(Photo credit – Ron Cervenka)

I beg your forgiveness for saying this Vin, but in your illustrious 67-years as the voice of the Dodgers, you have never been more wrong – perhaps for the first time ever – about anything. You belong up there as much as any of those 10 Dodgers legends, nine of whom are in the Hall of Fame.

…just as you are.