Back when he started, he wouldn't travel with the team -- so he would listen to Vin Scully call the game in English and then translate it to Spanish.
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On this Sunday's edition of "Eyewitness Newsmakers with Marc Brown," Jarrín explained how that worked.
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"When it was a strike, it was a strike simultaneously," he said. "Ball, ball, foul ball. But when it was a difficult play with men on base, I had to wait until the play was over in order to come up with the play. We had cartridges going on there. I would push a button for a single, button for double or triple or a homer un. So that's how I did it for about six years."
For Marc Brown's full interview with Jaime Jarrín, watch the video above.