Press Release

(January 2, 2009) The Inland Empire 66ers, the California League affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers, have announced that Matt Pedersen will take over as the team’s #2 play-by-play broadcaster for the 2009 campaign. Pedersen takes over for Luke Foth, who filled the role for the past two years. Foth left the team in the fall to move back to Ohio. Pedersen will call the middle three innings of approximately 120 of the team’s 140 broadcasts as well as assist with media relations duties and in the group sales department.

Pedersen spent the 2008 season as the media relations and broadcasting assistant with the Savannah Sand Gnats in the South Atlantic League. Pedersen is a graduate of San Francisco State University where he served as the lead play-by-play voice for men’s soccer and baseball and also played for the men’s soccer team. He was a scholar athlete from 2004-2007. Pedersen spent the spring of 2006 studying abroad at the Danish School of Journalism in Denmark.

Pedersen will join Mike Saeger in the booth for the upcoming season. Saeger will begin his 15th season with the 66ers. Saeger said that the team received roughly 40 resumes for the position. “This is the fifth year in which we’ve looked to fill the number two spot in the booth and it might have been the toughest decision of all of them,” Saeger said. “We were hoping to have made the decision by mid December but because there were so many well-qualified candidates it took quite a bit longer than we expected to narrow the field. Hopefully Matt can use this as a springboard to getting his own number one gig in 2010,” Saeger added.

The 66ers begin the 2009 season on April 9 at home against Rancho Cucamonga. All 140 games will be carried on AM 1050 KCAA. The 66ers and KCAA signed a 3-year deal last year to broadcast the games. All of the games will be carried live except for a handful of Sunday day games and a couple of mid-week day games. Those will be aired on a tape-delayed basis. All games will also be carried on the Internet at www.sixtysixers.com.