Yet, with minutes to go, he is still calmly fielding calls on his cellphone. He didn't even know he would be doing this game until yesterday morning. Tonight is Eisen's seventh baseball game at any level, and beyond the relevant snippets from the six years of footage that have passed before his eyes at ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Conn., Eisen has no expertise about either team. Al Michaels, the suave dean of network play-by-play men, called 200 college games at Arizona State University and another couple hundred high-school, college and minor-league baseball and football games in Hawaii before returning to the mainland to call his first major-league game for the Cincinnati Reds. The 33-year-old Eisen, whose plump, reddish cheeks and audacious self-confidence recall a young Orson Welles, is a sports announcer for the new millennium. 6:59 p.m.: Eisen to Davis: ''We are two handsome men.''
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