SAN FRANCISCO — Colleague Tom Hoffarth, reporting for his column on the end of Vin Scully’s broadcasting career, interviewed a man named Kevin O’Malley. O’Malley knows Scully. As the national Catholic Athletes for Christ MLB ministry coordinator, he arranges the mass that Scully (and the Dodgers’ players and coaches) attend before every Sunday home game at Dodger Stadium. O’Malley helped arrange another mass this morning inside AT&T Park.

If Scully had gotten the calling to be a priest long ago, “he’d be a Cardinal by now,” O’Malley told Hoffarth.

He may never have gotten the calling, but Scully was more in demand than the Pope on Sunday.

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Vin Scully is calling his final Dodgers game today. (Associated Press photo)

SAN FRANCISCO — You can find a running transcript of highlights from Vin Scully’s final broadcast here.