![]() ![]() ![]() While in Charlotte, he built his baseball resume with the Triple-A Charlotte Knights in the 1995, 19 seasons doing play-by-play. as the voice of UNC-Charlotte basketball and co-hosting a morning drive talk show. Jageler spent six years in Charlotte, N.C. Prior to joining Pawtucket, he worked in Boston co-hosting an afternoon talk show and serving in various capacities with the Boston Celtics radio network, including fill-in play-by-play. ![]() OKLAHOMAS NATIONAL COLOL TVJageler joined the Nationals after spending the 2005 campaign as the radio and TV voice of the Pawtucket Red Sox of the Triple-A International League. In 2020, he was honored by the National Sports Media Association as Washington D.C.’s co-Sportscaster of the year. OKLAHOMAS NATIONAL COLOL PLUSJageler has been at the mic for the Nationals’ historic run to the 2019 World Series championship, plus four NL East championships, three no-hitters and Max Scherzer’s MLB record-tying 20-strikeout performance. and Palm Harbor, Fla.ĭave Jageler enters his 17th season with the Nationals, teaming with Charlie Slowes since 2006 to form the longest-running radio play-by-play duo in the District. Charlie and his wife, Tina, have two adult sons, Jim and Alex, and the family splits time between homes in Alexandria, Va. OKLAHOMAS NATIONAL COLOL PROSlowes called play-by-play for his third Washington pro sports team when he filled in for John Walton on Washington Capitals radio during the Caps run to their first Stanley Cup Championship in February of 2018. In three-plus decades as a play-by-play broadcaster, Slowes has also called boxing for ESPN, MISL soccer for the New York Arrows (1983) and college basketball at the University of South Florida. Louis, Slowes was involved in broadcasts of Cardinals baseball, Cardinals football, Blues hockey and play-by-play for St. Louis, where for three years he was exposed Ford Frick Award winners like the late Jack Buck and Bob Costas. Slowes’ first career break came not long after graduation, in the spring of 1984 at KMOX Radio in St. Slowes is among those (starting with legendary Ford Frick Award-winner and Hall of Famer Vin Scully) to have entered sports broadcasting after graduating from Fordham University in his native New York City and having honed his skills on Fordham’s 50,000-watt blowtorch, WFUV 90.7 FM. Slowes also called Triple-A baseball for the Tidewater Tides on radio and TV in 1986, 1988, 19. Slowes had previously called games for the New York Mets (1988 & 1991) on WFAN-AM, the Baltimore Orioles (1989-90) on WBAL-AM, and nationally for NBC-TV and CBS Radio. Slowes made the switch to Major League Baseball full-time in 1998 as an original radio voice of the Tampa Bay Rays, calling their first seven seasons. Slowes called Bullets games for 11 seasons, through 1996-97, including two years of radio/TV simulcasts. Baseball’s return to our nation’s capital in 2005 also marked a return for Slowes, who was named the radio voice of the NBA’s Washington Bullets in 1986 at just 25 years of age. Slowes called his 2,500th Nationals broadcast in 2020 (9/4), and enters 2022 having called 3,848 Major League regular season and Postseason games, including 2,685 with the Nationals. Joined by long-time partner Jageler in 2006, the 2022 season marks Slowes’ 18th with the Nationals, his 25th consecutive year calling Major League Baseball, and 30th overall. His trademark taglines-“BANG, ZOOM go the fireworks!” and “A Curly W is in the books!”-after Nationals victories soon became part of the Beltway baseball lexicon. ![]() Slowes became the original voice of the Nationals on February 24, 2005, in time for the team’s inaugural Spring Training. Slowes’ call “and if you walked out of this ball park when the Mets scored five runs in the top of the 9th inning, you BLEW IT!” with partner Dave Jageler, became a tv/radio/internet/social media phenomenon. That moment sits atop Slowes’ Nationals highlights, a list that includes Jayson Werth’s memorable walk-off home run in Game 4 of the 2012 National League Division series, Max Scherzer’s 20-strikeout game, three no-hitters, Bryce Harper’s three-homer game, Washington’s four consecutive home runs in San Diego and Kurt Suzuki’s walk-off, three-run homer that capped a seven-run bottom of the ninth inning to beat the Mets. Charlie Slowes has been behind the microphone for every season of Nationals baseball, from the call of the first pitch in club history on Apthrough Daniel Hudson’s historic strikeout of Michael Brantley to end Game 7 of the 2019 World Series. ![]()
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