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Calls Mount for Longtime MLB Announcer to Retire After Brutal Game

By Chris Licata

Calls Mount for Longtime MLB Announcer to Retire After Brutal Game

Bob Costas is not having a good week, at least not in the eyes of MLB fans.

The longtime play-by-play announcer has been tasked with calling the ALDS between the New York Yankees and Kansas City Royals, who played Game 3 on Wednesday night.

The Yankees won 3-2, taking a 2-1 series lead, but it was Costas who stole the show -- and not in a good way.

The veteran broadcast committed multiple broadcasting faux pas, perhaps none bigger than mistaking a weak eighth-inning "line drive base hit to center field" that was caught by Yankees shortstop Anthony Volpe on the edge of the outfield grass.

In the same game, Costas was ridiculed on social media for his monotone call of an Aaron Judge RBI double that plated the first run, a Judge fourth-inning flyout that he initially made sound like a long home run and his commentary on Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton.

As such, calls are mounting from spectators who want to see the 72-year-old Costas retire.

"Bob Costas..... it's time man," the Barstool Baseball account wrote.

"Yeah it might be time to hang it up Bob Costas," another popular baseball account wrote.

"Guy needs to be retired. Absolutely disgraceful," a fan said.

"Costas is so bad. How do they still have him calling important baseball games? Time to move on," echoed someone else.

The Yankees have the Royals' backs against the ropes for a potential series-clinching Game 4 on Thursday at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City.

Costas and analyst Ron Darling are scheduled to return for the broadcast on TBS.

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