Karl Ravech still calling select ESPN baseball games despite being fired from network

Baseball fans may have been doing a double-take when they turned on ESPN’s broadcast of Thursday’s Braves-Nationals game. Calling the game alongside Eduardo Pérez was Karl Ravech, who had been part of the ESPN’s mass layoffs last week, leading to plenty of surprise from viewers.Despite being let go by ESPN, Ravech was given the option to call select games on the network this summer and is expected to announce during the Little League World Series, sources told The Post.Ravech has been a part of the Little League World Series broadcast team since 2006 and had been the lead voice for ESPN’s “Sunday Night Baseball” broadcasts for four years through the 2025 MLB season. The longtime ESPNer was among the names the network let go of last week in the latest round of layoffs at the Walt Disney Company, which owns the sports conglomerate.Among the others who saw their time at the Worldwide Leader end included ex-NFL safety Ryan Clark, along with NFL reporter Tom Pelissero and longtime anchor David Lloyd. Ravech had spent 33 years at the network and it was initially believed that his ESPN tenure had come to an end with calling a game between the Dodgers and Phillies. ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro had outlined the reasoning behind the layoffs in a memo to staff last week. “Over the past several months, we’ve made significant progress integrating the NFL assets that we acquired into ESPN,” he wrote.

“Throughout this process, we have taken the time to carefully evaluate our collective teams, resources and organizational structure to best position us for the future.As a result, we had to make some difficult decisions about job impacts that we will be communicating today.“While most of the job impacts are tied to the acquisition, we will also notify colleagues in other parts of the company today that their positions have been impacted.

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