Vin Scully to return for 62nd season with Los Angeles Dodgers

Vin Scully to return to LA Dodgers next season

LOS ANGELES — Vin Scully will return to the broadcast booth to call Los Angeles Dodgers games next year for his 62nd season.

The team said Sunday that the 82-year-old Hall of Famer will call all home games and road games against National League West opponents.

Scully says he’s honored and humbled to continue his association with the Dodgers, which has been a major part of his life.

The Dodgers say Scully’s nearly 61 years of service is the longest tenure of any broadcaster in sports history.

Scully said last fall that he still loves the job he’s had with the team since 1950, but it’s increasingly hard to be away from his wife during the season.

He’s been working on a series of one-year contracts.

Scully calls all nine innings of the team’s television broadcasts, while the first three innings of his games are simulcast on the radio.

He works alone on the air and long ago reduced his travel schedule to avoid calling games east of the Rockies.

In March, Scully was briefly hospitalized after falling and hitting his head at home.