Pedro Gómez, ESPN’s reporter since 2003 in one of the country’s mainstays of baseball, has repeatedly called it home. Tenía 58 years.
Gómez, who owns his base in Phoenix, covers the baseball for SportsCenter, Baseball Tonight and other ESPN studio programs, live and radio events. During his career of 35 years, he covered 25 more World Series in more than 20 Star Games.
“We are concerned and anxious to know that our friend and colleague Pedro Gomez has failed,” said Jimmy Pitaro, president of ESPN and Sportinhoud. “Pedro was an elite level player and his professional logos were universally reconciled. More importantly, Pedro was a friend and loved one for all of us. Our races are with the Pedro family and with all those who love him. this moment is extraordinarily difficult “.
Gómez le sobreviven su esposa, Sandra, sus hijos Rio y Dante, y su hija Sierra.
“Pedro was much more than a media personality,” his family said in a statement. “He was a father, a carnivorous spouse, a loyal friend, a trainer and a mentor. He was our todo and the mayor created his wife”.
Hijo of Cuban parents who read in Miami just before he started, Gómez was part of the historic coverage of the cadena in 2016 when the Tampa Bay Rays were in the Cuban selection in La Habana. Devolve the debts of his father and her husband to the family home during this journey. It also covered a football match of the United States ‘United States’ 2008 Habana selection in 2008 for ESPN, and an exhibition game between the Baltimore Orioles and the 1999 Cuban selection.
In addition, it was a vital part of the coverage of the Barry Bonds chain from 2005 to 2007, including the coverage of the Bonds’ persecution to surpass Hank Aaron’s record in 2007.
Gómez includes juggling game by player for an ESPN baseball game in 2014. Dijo is his favorite event to cover the Game 6 of the 2003 National League Series Champions, featuring the Chicago Cubs fanatic Steve Bartman, joins and intends to catch a foul on Moisés Alou’s gardener, the Cubs in a playoff game against the Miami Marlins, who will also score in the innings and force a Game 7 in the series.
Antes de unirse a ESPN, Gomez subscribed to Miami News, San Diego Union, San Jose Mercury News, Miami Herald y Sacramento Bee, specialization in baseball coverage, antes de convertirse and columnista and national baseball secretary in Arizona Republic in 1997.
Among the teams that cobbled together were the Oakland Athletics team of Rickey Henderson, José Canseco and Mark McGwire, among others. Remember the time one of Jeff Pearlman’s periodicals was when we were “traveling with them” [Rolling] Stones “.
It was a gala magazine, including a first place award by the Association of Editors of Arizona of the Associated Press for “Discovering the Hogar that Never Knows” about his trip to Cuba in 1999.
Gómez nació and Miami and the community of Miami-Dade Community College, do not have access to the passport of the period, the Universidad de Miami.