Gary Thorne Gary Thorne ( born June 9 , 1948 , in Bangor , Maine ) is a play - by - play announcer for ESPN and ABC , working National Hockey League , Major League Baseball , college football , and the Frozen Four hockey tournament . He is also the television play - by - play announcer for the Baltimore Orioles and the Professional Bowler ' s Association . Biography . Background . After graduating from the University of Maine in 1970 , University of Maine School of Law in 1973 , and Georgetown Law School in 1976 ( while paying tuition as a sportscaster / disc jockey ) , Thorne became Penobscot County assistant district attorney and joined the bar of the U . S . Supreme Court . But eventually , Thorne found courtrooms dull when compared to broadcasting . Thorne ' s son - in - law , Damian DiGiulian , is a former assistant coach for the University of Vermont hockey team ; Maine ( Thorne ' s alma mater ) and Vermont are rivals in the Hockey East conference of Division I hockey . DiGiulian is now a color commentator for ESPNU ' s college hockey broadcasts . Broadcasting career . Baseball . By 1984 , Thorne had enough leverage with baseball ' s Triple - A Maine Guides to name himself a co - owner . In , Thorne began a four - year stint as a radio announcer for the New York Mets . Thorne was present in the booth at Shea Stadium , along with Bob Murphy , for the now - famous sixth game of the 1986 World Series between the Mets and Boston Red Sox . Thorne was one of the first people to criticize the Red Sox for leaving ill - fated Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner out in the 10th inning over Dave Stapleton . Thorne was asked to call Maine hockey games during winter months until 1987 ( simultaneously with his work for the Mets in the summer from 1985 ) when the lure of doing play - by - play in the NHL became too strong for Thorne to ignore . From 1987 – 1993 , Thorne served as the play - by - play voice of the New Jersey Devils of the NHL . Thorne missed several Mets games in the 1988 season due to Devils playoff games . He was replaced after that Mets season by Gary Cohen . Thorne spent the following season with the Chicago White Sox . Also in , Thorne was named a backup play - by - play announcer ( behind Al Michaels and replacing Gary Bender in this particular capacity ) for ABC ' s coverage of " Thursday Night Baseball " telecasts with Joe Morgan . Thorne also served as a field reporter for the World Series and covered the World Series Trophy presentation for ABC . Like his ABC Sports colleagues , Al Michaels , Jim Palmer , Tim McCarver , and Joe Morgan , Thorne was at San Francisco ' s Candlestick Park when the infamous Loma Prieta earthquake hit on October 17 , . From until , Gary Thorne served as the play - by - play man for the World Series on Armed Forces Radio / Major League Baseball International - TV . He has been the play - by - play TV announcer for the Mid - Atlantic Sports Network ' s Baltimore Orioles games since 2007 . He is known for his signature calls of " " Goodbye ! Home run ! " " and " " Mercy ! " " In , Thorne was named the lead play - by - play announcer for ESPN Radio ' s " Sunday Night Baseball " coverage . He teams with color commentator Dave Campbell to call a majority of the network ' s " Sunday Night " games , although occasionally other commitments will cause him to miss a broadcast , with other ESPN announcers ( such as Dan Shulman , who preceded Thorne as the primary Sunday night voice ) filling in for him that week . Thorne also works on one of ESPN Radio ' s postseason Division Series crews each year , and called the 2008 All - Star Game for non - U . S . viewers via MLB International television . Thorne officially replaced Dave O ' Brien on the MLB International broadcasts of the All - Star Game , ALCS ( even - numbered years ) , NLCS ( odd - numbered years ) , and the World Series in 2010 and 2012 alongside Rick Sutcliffe . Thorne ' s voice is heard in Pepsi commercials featuring New York Yankees ' Johnny Damon , the Minnesota Twins ' Joe Mauer and MLB umpire Laz Díaz . In addition , he announces various games of the College World Series every year during the month of June . He also is a play - by - play TV announcer for the Little League World Series on ESPN during the month of August . Thorne is also the play - by - play announcer of the video game " Major League Baseball 2K9 " , " Major League Baseball 2K10 " , " Major League Baseball 2K11 " , " Major League Baseball 2K12 , and Major League Baseball 2K13 . Hockey . In 1977 , Thorne called hockey games for Augusta , Maine radio and television stations . Thorne rose to prominence in Maine broadcasting , when he began calling play - by - play for the University of Maine ' s hockey games for Bangor radio station WABI . As the voice of the Black Bears , he quickly became one of the most recognizable radio voices in the state . From 1992 through 2004 , Thorne called NHL play - by - play for games on ESPN , ESPN2 and ( beginning 1999 ) ABC , including many of the latter - round playoff games . He was almost always paired along with analyst Bill Clement during these ESPN - produced telecasts . NBC enlisted Thorne to call the hockey tournament with John Davidson during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . He is the announcer on EA Sports ' NHL 08 , NHL 09 , NHL 10 , NHL 11 , NHL 12 and NHL 13 video games alongside Bill Clement . He is also known for his most famed call when a hockey player scores a goal , " " Score ! " " In 2005 when ESPN dropped out of the bidding for NHL hockey games , Gary Thorne began doing play - by - play for baseball and college football on ESPN . He also picked up duties as the lead play - by - play announcer for the " Frozen Four " . Thorne and Clement called every Stanley Cup win from through , except for ; Mike Emrick and John Davidson were the broadcast team for the clinching game of that Finals series ( which was aired on Fox ) . Thorne was named to call the play - by - play of Team USA ' s games in the 2010 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships for the NHL Network alongside Dave Starman . However , shortly before the tournament started , he was replaced by JP Dellacamera for personal reasons . Thorne returned to the NHL Network in 2011 to call Team USA ' s games in the 2011 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships . Football . He has also called ABC ' s coverage of the Capital One Bowl . In 2011 Thorne joined CBS Sports Network as a play - by - play man for college football and has been paired with Randy Cross as color analyst . Controversies . Bobby Valentine . In September 2002 , Thorne reportedly talked of dissension in the Mets clubhouse between manager Bobby Valentine and the team ' s players . " There are a lot of guys down there ( in the dugout ) who don ' t like him , " a " New York Daily News " columnist quotes Thorne as having said . " They don ' t like playing for him . And if there has ever been a Teflon manager , he ' s it . Nothing seems to stick . He ' s never responsible for anything . " Thorne and the Mets parted ways after the 2002 season . Curt Schilling . In April 2007 , in reference to Curt Schilling ' s famed bloody sock during the 2004 MLB playoffs , Thorne said during a broadcast of a Red Sox – Orioles game that Boston backup catcher Doug Mirabelli admitted it was a hoax . " It was painted , " Thorne said . " Doug Mirabelli confessed up to it after . It was all for PR . " Thorne later said that Mirabelli had only been joking . " He said one thing , and I heard something else . I reported what I heard and what I honestly felt was said , " Thorne said . " Having talked with him today , there ' s no doubt in my mind that ' s not what he said , that ' s not what he meant . He explained that it was in the context of the sarcasm and the jabbing that goes on in the clubhouse . " I took it as something serious , and it wasn ' t , " Thorne said . Mirabelli confirmed the story , saying , " He knows that I believe 100 percent that I thought the sock had blood on it . It never crossed my mind that there wasn ' t blood on that sock . If he misinterpreted something said inside the clubhouse , it ' s unfortunate . " Mirabelli said he spoke with Thorne in the Boston clubhouse about six months after the 2004 playoffs . " As he was walking away he asked , ' How about the bloody sock ? ' I said , ' Yeah , we got a lot of publicity out of that , ' and that was all he can recall me saying , " Mirabelli said . " He said he assumed what I meant was that the sock was fake and that it was just a publicity stunt . That by no means is what I meant . There was never a doubt in mind there was blood on the sock . "