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LOS ANGELES -- The three-ring binder chock full of tidbits Vin Scully wants to talk about on the air will soon be flipped shut for the last time.After Saturday night, the Hall of Fame broadcaster is down to calling four Los Angeles Dodgers games before concluding his 67-year career on Oct. 2 in San Francisco.Im trying very hard not to think about me, he said Saturday during a 50-minute session with the media. I want to think about the game and the importance of the game.The game has always been the thing for Scully, starting in 1950 when he joined Red Barber and Connie Desmond in the Brooklyn Dodgers radio and television booth. Barber was the father figure, Desmond was the big brother and Scully was the 22-year-old kid.Early on, Scully declared on the air that Willie Mays was the best player hed ever seen.An irritated Barber pulled him aside afterward, lecturing, You havent been around long enough to talk about the best player youve ever seen.Connie would put his arm around me, Scully recalled, and say, `Its OK, kid. Lets go get a beer.Scullys broadcasts focus on stories involving the people on the field rather than baseball statistics. He admits having no idea about newer stats like WAR (wins above replacement) or OPS (on base plus slugging percentages).Im not smart enough to keep all those numbers in my head, he said. I got to know the players. I started to treat them like human beings. I would be by the batting cage. A player might come over and say, `You know what happened to the shortstop yesterday? and I would have a story.As the longest tenured broadcaster with a single team in any professional sport, Scully has plenty of stories and an amazing recall of names, dates and occasions that would put most 88-year-olds to shame.Hes used his encyclopedic knowledge working games alone for much of his career, making him an anomaly in todays world of booths jammed with play-by-play, color commentators and analysts talking over each other.Thats not an ego trip on my part, Scully said. Red had the theory: one voice, one man. The one-on-one is really effective.Scullys esteem and influence earned him an offer from Eugene Wyman to run for office in 1964. Wymans wife, Roz, was influential in helping bring the Dodgers west in 1958. Wyman told Scully the Democrats were looking for a candidate to fill the U.S. Senate seat from California. Scully listened politely and asked Wyman for 48 hours to mull it over.I called him and said, `Ive given it a lot of thought, which was not true, I just dont think Im qualified and I think Id be happier doing my baseball games, Scully said.His first Brooklyn Dodgers game on April 18, 1950, was in Philadelphia, having cracked jokes on the way to the ballpark in the back of the bus with Jackie Robinson, Gil Hodges, Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe, whose friendship with Scully extends to this day.They didnt trust me more than one inning, Scully said, recalling Barber assigned him to call the fourth. I was terrified.Even today, he says, Theres a sense of complete relief when its over with.Eventually, Scully grew as comfortable behind the mic as Dodgers fans did listening to his dulcet voice that has informed and educated generations of Angelenos.Im a very happy person. I love people, he said. When I go on the air, Im happy. The people, thats what I will miss. The people have made me feel so much at home and I think Ive carried that onto the air.The fans paid him back with multiple ovations Friday night during an emotional pre-game ceremony on his appreciation night.I started to cry at the beginning, he said. Ive never heard the noise that we heard. It kept building and staying there. There was love coming out of those stands.Youve heard about being on Mount Olympus. I think I was 5 feet above that.When Scully awakes in his own bed on Oct. 3, hell be unemployed for the first time since 1950.Maybe the first thing Ill do is take my watch off and put it in the drawer and just think I can do anything I want, he said. Ill have breakfast, read the papers, go for a walk and get a book.It wont be painful at all, he said, assuredly.Not for him, but for the rest of us. 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Ellis hit two-run homers and the NL West champion Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the San Diego Padres 4-0 Saturday night. WASHINGTON -- Since his arrival in July, rookie Trea Turner has provided the Washington Nationals with speed in center field and at the top of the lineup.As a bonus, the diminutive 23-year-old has delivered the long ball with surprising regularity.Turner hit his second home run of the game with two outs in the bottom of the ninth Friday night, a solo shot that gave the Nationals a 5-4 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies.It was the first career multihomer game for Turner, whose two-run drive in the seventh put Washington up 4-1.Hes been really a game-changer for us. He got a pitch to hit and he took it yard, Nationals starter Tanner Roark said. Hes a gamer, a fighter. Hes perfect.Turner has eight home runs to go with 21 stolen bases in a mere 52 games this season.Im not a power lifter or anything like that, but I feel that Im stronger than I look, said Turner, whose listed weight of 185 pounds likely includes uniform, cleats and four bats. Its just a matter of mechanics at the plate. I think the strengths there.Cameron Rupp hit a three-run homer off Koda Glover to knot the score in the eighth and set the stage for Turners ninth-inning heroics.Facing Frank Herrmann (0-2), Turner ripped a 1-2 pitch over the wall in center field.Hes doing something right up there, Rupp said. Hes getting on base and he runs like the wind and that helps. Hes a good ball player and he beat us tonight.Daniel Murphy scored two runs for the NL East-leading Nationals, who have won eight of 11.Mark Melancon (2-1) worked the ninth for Washington.Roark allowed one run, six hits and two walks over six innings. He left with a 2-1 lead, but will have to wait at least one more start to claim his career-high tying 15th victory.Tanner was fighting. I wish we would have gotten that victory for him, manager Dusty Baker said.Unfortunately for Roark, hes seen the last of the Phillies. The right-hander is 3-0 with a 0.79 ERA in ffive starts against Philadelphia this season.ddddddddddddJake Thompson gave up two runs and five hits in 5 1/3 innings for Philadelphia.With the score tied at 1 in the sixth, Murphy doubled off Thompson and Bryce Harper ended a 3-for-16 slump with an RBI single to right.Turner connected against Colton Murray for a three-run lead.Earlier, two batters hit by pitches ended up scoring. Odubel Herrera came home on a single by Peter Bouros in the Philadelphia fourth before Anthony Rendon doubled in Murphy in the bottom half.Herrera left in the fifth inning with a right leg contusion. After being hit by a fastball in his right knee, the outfielder had a difficult time walking to first base.They took X-rays. Its no breakage or anything, but hes day to day, manager Pete Mackanin said.PLATOON SYSTEMMackanin intends to use Tommy Joseph at 1B more than 36-year-old Ryan Howard down the stretch -- unless Howard continues to deliver big hits, such as his three-run homer Thursday night. Im a manager. I want to win games, Mackanin said.STREAKS AND STATSPhillies: Howards single in the fourth inning gave him two straight games with hits for the first time since Aug. 21 and 24.Nationals: It was the 16th game that Murphy has scored at least two runs. When he scores once, Washington is 44-21.TRAINERS ROOMPhillies: 3B Maikel Franco missed a third straight game with a jammed right thumb. Im going to say hes available to pinch hit, Mackanin said.Nationals: LHP Sammy Solis (left shoulder inflammation) has sort of hit a roadblock, Baker said. Solis has been on the DL since mid-August.UP NEXTPhillies: RHP Jerad Eickhoff (10-13, 3.86 ERA) starts Saturday night against Washington. Hes 4-1 in his last six starts.Nationals: RHP Max Scherzer (16-7, 2.88) leads the big leagues with 243 strikeouts. ' ' '