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Yankees Announcer John Sterling Had An All-Time Screw Up Thinking Giancarlo Stanton Hit A Game-Tying Home Run

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New York Yankees announcer John Sterling was still getting trolled into Tuesday for a terribly missed call on what he thought was a Giancarlo Stanton homer

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2009 file photo shows New York Yankees broadcaster John Sterling sitting in his booth before a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium in New York. Sterling has called every New York Yankees game since 1989. That streak is about to end. Feeling a little run down, the team’s radio play-by-play announcer will finally take a breather this weekend when the Yankees play a four-game series at Tampa Bay beginning Thursday, July 4, 2019_ his 81st birthday. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun, file)

If you don’t know Yankees announcer John Sterling, you likely know his voice.

The radio play-by-play man is famous for his corny personality and personalized home run calls for every member on the team. But sometimes, he gets it wrong. And on Wednesday, he got a call very, very wrong.

In the late innings against the Blue Jays, the Yankees were down 6-4 when Giancarlo Stanton came up with a man on base. As he hit a towering fly ball to left field, everyone in the stadium thought it was gone… until it landed in the mitt of the Blue Jays left fielder mere feet before the wall.

John Sterling took the call a step farther. The radio man did his full “it is high, it is far, it is gone” home run call before realizing that Giancarlo Stanton flew out to left.

Check out the hilarious mistake:

After the would-be game tying bomb ended in a long out, the Yankees went on to lose the game by the same score of 6-4 against the Blue Jays.

During the game, Jays slugger Vlad Guerrero Jr. took Yankees ace Gerrit Cole deep twice, and George Springer came through with the go-ahead RBI in the seventh inning.

If John Sterling was right about the Giancarlo Stanton hit, it would have sent the Bronx into a frenzy.

That will have to wait for another night.

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